The title, as the Crocodile Hunter would say. No, don't ask me why I thought of that as a starter for tonight's entry, that would be asking for logic. Was quite a testing day at work today, so am doing my best to relax at the moment :)
The major issue case at work reminded me of that nursery rhyme for the lack of a nail (the horse went lame, the general went missing, the army lost the battle etc) - one little screw up, where we did an address change before the actual technician appointment on one system and not the other hmmph. And led to the customer going ballistic - not having a go at me per se (always nice to know), but wants to have someone from the company talk to her about what went wrong and I must hate getting customers ringing in like her - actually, after a couple of seconds deer in headlight actual deep thinking about the idea, I said that I didn't mind frustrated customers, because I do my best to help them. Will see how that plays out tomorrow, spent fifteen or so minutes writing up an email to all the relevant parties...
But yeah, I like helping customers - give me frustrated customers that I can actually help rather than customers I can't even do any work for LOL. Had a couple of other calls in today that were taxing on the brain as well, but I like challenges more than brain dead white bread kind of work.
Hmm, not often that Australia is on the outer and New Zealand is on the inner ring with US policy making, but there is a story running over here that the US put together the Halibut group to talk about how to deal with the rise of China. The UK, Canada, Japan and New Zealand took up the invite, but Australia demurred, apparently due to fear of offending the Chinese. The name of the group came about because there is no interpretation for halibut in Mandarin.
Hmmph, Alexander Downer, the Australian Foreign Minister, is getting interviewed about Australian Chinese relations in general on ABC Lateline at the moment - grr, for some reason he just irritates the hell out of me. It always seems that he is talking down to whoever he is talking to, just seems to have an easy superiority about himself - last year we were supposed to be too close to the US, now this year we are too close to China - why would we even think of talking hypotheticals about a Chinese Taiwanese war (OK, that is a valid one to shut up about) - oh, I don't know how many people are in prison camps in China. Blah blah blah. If he kept his mouth shut, I wouldn't be so annoyed at him (Downer that is) LOL.
And by the way, what is happening with those two Chinese diplomatic asylum seekers?
On a somewhat lighter and the future is now topic, an international project to build a fusion reactor has gotten to the stage of which country to place it in. And France is the lucky lucky receipient - well, hmm a project between the Europeans, Japanese, Americans, Chinese, Russians and South Koreans (sounds like the space station and the moon colonies out of 2001), and the Japanese, who wanted the reactor built with them will get 20% of the research posts and pay only 10% of the budget. The prototype reactor will be tested for eighteen months, and they will see whether it can be done on a commercial scale. And I have to say, the first time I have EVER seen an international project quoted in euros (ten billion of them), not USD or GBP.
'In terms of the physics and huge amounts of energy involved, the Iter project would be akin to building a star on Earth.'
In the words of Neo off the Matrix - woah LOL.
Damn, Maria Sharapova is attractive - watching Wimbledon in the background here.
Later peeps
Pauly
The major issue case at work reminded me of that nursery rhyme for the lack of a nail (the horse went lame, the general went missing, the army lost the battle etc) - one little screw up, where we did an address change before the actual technician appointment on one system and not the other hmmph. And led to the customer going ballistic - not having a go at me per se (always nice to know), but wants to have someone from the company talk to her about what went wrong and I must hate getting customers ringing in like her - actually, after a couple of seconds deer in headlight actual deep thinking about the idea, I said that I didn't mind frustrated customers, because I do my best to help them. Will see how that plays out tomorrow, spent fifteen or so minutes writing up an email to all the relevant parties...
But yeah, I like helping customers - give me frustrated customers that I can actually help rather than customers I can't even do any work for LOL. Had a couple of other calls in today that were taxing on the brain as well, but I like challenges more than brain dead white bread kind of work.
Hmm, not often that Australia is on the outer and New Zealand is on the inner ring with US policy making, but there is a story running over here that the US put together the Halibut group to talk about how to deal with the rise of China. The UK, Canada, Japan and New Zealand took up the invite, but Australia demurred, apparently due to fear of offending the Chinese. The name of the group came about because there is no interpretation for halibut in Mandarin.
Hmmph, Alexander Downer, the Australian Foreign Minister, is getting interviewed about Australian Chinese relations in general on ABC Lateline at the moment - grr, for some reason he just irritates the hell out of me. It always seems that he is talking down to whoever he is talking to, just seems to have an easy superiority about himself - last year we were supposed to be too close to the US, now this year we are too close to China - why would we even think of talking hypotheticals about a Chinese Taiwanese war (OK, that is a valid one to shut up about) - oh, I don't know how many people are in prison camps in China. Blah blah blah. If he kept his mouth shut, I wouldn't be so annoyed at him (Downer that is) LOL.
And by the way, what is happening with those two Chinese diplomatic asylum seekers?
On a somewhat lighter and the future is now topic, an international project to build a fusion reactor has gotten to the stage of which country to place it in. And France is the lucky lucky receipient - well, hmm a project between the Europeans, Japanese, Americans, Chinese, Russians and South Koreans (sounds like the space station and the moon colonies out of 2001), and the Japanese, who wanted the reactor built with them will get 20% of the research posts and pay only 10% of the budget. The prototype reactor will be tested for eighteen months, and they will see whether it can be done on a commercial scale. And I have to say, the first time I have EVER seen an international project quoted in euros (ten billion of them), not USD or GBP.
'In terms of the physics and huge amounts of energy involved, the Iter project would be akin to building a star on Earth.'
In the words of Neo off the Matrix - woah LOL.
Damn, Maria Sharapova is attractive - watching Wimbledon in the background here.
Later peeps
Pauly
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