Over the past 20 years or so there have been a number of scientific breakthroughs that have slipped under the public radar. A couple of genius' from Holland or the Netherlands, whatever you wish to call it have developed a fabric that can be used as television screen. So soon you will be able to watch TV on your tie whilst on the subway. Nearer to home, scientists have developed a heat resistant plastic bag and they are using this to make a light that goes on in a handbag every time it is opened. Wonderful. No more standing around on the door step or a cold winters day car park waiting for ladies to rummage for the keys. I guess I am just having a rant really. A scientific computer slap with a special pen that enables you to write on the slab and then 35 minutes later print it out. Fantastic. Let me just get a pen and paper and write that down. An advert today whilst I was driving my Michelin - The NEW tyres that save you fuel! That is rubbish, if you want to save fuel, keep the revs down and don't do 95mph on the duel carriage way and then moan that the car only does 4mpg. Its not the car, the engine, the exhaust, the air conditioning, although having it on does not help the situation, its how you drive.   

I am currently reading Malcolm Gladwell's 'Blink' a book about the conscious and unconscious mind, first put forward by Freud in the late 80's. One section of the book that is interesting is when he is talking about different signals that as humans we give off depending on our personalities. He cleverly relates this back to World War 2 and talks about how morse code was used to communicate. He says that different operators where known for their different styles in which they were translating code worldwide. The interpreters who were used to translate this code were then able to identify over time who it was who was sending out the signal from there personal style of 'writing' (longer dashes or shorter dots for example). This in turn meant that they could track where a certain squadron was based on the intel that was being distributed. If they were unsure about where a squad was they would track the morse code to distinguish if they were in Italy, or still in France. Very clever. 

I got the job at Naked Communications, sorry if I forgot to mention.

I begin work on the 8th of September which is a Tuesday as the Monday is a US bank holiday. I cannot express the feeling of joy that I experienced when I received the email from Kacy saying that the job was mine. Hard work pays off. I guess now I can really say New York City here I come!

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