Desktop Meme

I have been tagged by Vindico with the desktop meme. I am working from home today so its a bit more interesting as we have a very strict clear desk policy because the office is tight for space.

I plug my laptop in to the desktop monitor so I effectively have 2 screens, which I find very useful for doing presentations and spreadsheets, as well as blogging. The bits underneath the light and the fountain of papers above belong to The Great Wiseone, the rest of the books are mine and are generally Telecoms and IT from my consulting days. Now I just learn direct from the web - great innovation for consultants.

The shield is from HMS Fearless and a memento of my return from the Falklands. The skewiff picture next to it is our wedding photo.

The HTML and CSS books are there because I am trying to fix The Great Wiseone's web site which doesn't work well with Safari and FireFox - if anyone has any ideas please feel free to send me advice.

Well, I had better get on with work as someone is chasing me on Skype.

I tag:

The Bystander
William M Briggs, Statistician
Phil A, Critical Faculty Dojo

Seven Good Things

I have been tagged by Mark Wadsworth to list 7 good things. I've only done one of these before as I find a lot of them a banal, but as this is good things I'll give it go.

Apart from the first one this is in no particular order

1. Family
2. Friends
3. Technology - but as a user and as I make my living out of it
4. Democracy - despite the best efforts of our current bunch of clowns both in Westminster and Brussels it is good to live in a democracy
5. Alcohol - Wine, beer and single malts being my preferred versions.
6. Tobacco - When I smoked I enjoyed it and also because smokers pay such huge amounts of sin tax it does relieve my tax burden a little bit
7. Sport - Golf and cricket as favourites but just general competitive sport is the best entertainment around, as participation and as a spectator

If anyone else want to have a go, consider yourself tagged and leave a note on the comments so we can all share your pearls of wisdom.