Work - transmutation and transposition

I was invited into a meeting at 9.30 yesterday, and was told that:

• My boss was leaving
• I have a new boss
• I'll be working in a new department
• I'll have a new desk
• All this takes immediiate effect, complete with new desk on Monday

I love life (well, in general, sometimes it can be the very devil itself, especially when things leak or go missing in the post but we'll ignore that for the moment).

Just now I experienced a bit of realisation as to why I like it so much right now. I'm in some loungy, comfortable clothing after a bit of a non-day at the office, and I've been ( Read more... )

"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes." - Winston Churchill

I learned a lesson today, but I'm not entirely sure what it was. Maybe it will come to me tomorrow.

I was playing chess against the computer. Chessmaster, like Fritz, will adjust it's playing strength to round about your level if you ask it nicely, and so I ( Read more... )

7

After a couple of hours of watching progress bars slowly fill, I now have a Windows 7 Laptop. It's very nice, and boots quickly. It'll take me a while to really dig around and report back on it, but the upgrade went flawlessly.

So far the biggest difference between this and Vista seems to be the fact that I spend far, far less time watching that ( Read more... )

Learning

One of the biggest barriers to effective learning is assuming you already know a subject. This assumption, or belief, acts as a sort of belligerent doorman keeping out any facts, figures or contradictory information that doesn't accord with your existing schema.

Ego

This protects the ego nicely, because assimilating new and contradictory info ( Read more... )

'A single swallow doth not a summer make', said Aristotle during one of his grumpier afternoon reveries.

He's right, but that's no reason to ignore it completely.

Waterstones

Earlier today I was in Waterstones, to find that they'd had a bit of a move around in the stock. Whereas I'd always been fond of going on about how more books had been written on ( Read more... )

Finally, after a lifetime if not really understanding why I get tired by being surrounded by people and hate smalltalk, I've worked out that I'm an 'Introvert'.

After having done a number of Myers Briggs type tests, I've come out as 'INTJ' personality type too, which also explains a lot. These personality tests are a bit weird: they'll only really ( Read more... )

I used to get very nervous in social situations, until I twigged that people couldn't, in actual fact, read minds.

Not being telepathic means that most people will assume you feel one way or another by observing your behaviour. It's all they've got to go on: your body language, tone of voice, the stuff you say and do.

If you act nervous, people ( Read more... )

satans_fairy_ put up this game:

Comment on this post & I will choose seven interests from your profile. you will then explain what they mean/why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

Seemed like an idea. I commented, and she tagged me for the following:

Blue Sky Thinking

Sounds awful, doesn ( Read more... )