A burden on the Web, a problem for the climate also

he sites are very busy today, but many requestors are bots and teammates looked at some logs earlier today. The key point made, in conclusion, is that it’s too hard to accurately identify culprits, hence it’s best to make pages cheap to deliver and simply transmit to anyone.

The WWW (Web) is such an utter mess. We’ll try to raise the subject in the Court of Appeal next year.

But birds don’t care

oday the birds started drinking from the old fish tank (several of them did this). It’s old, and it’s also rather odd, as it’s meant to be there not to be used for animals but rather to erode and let green buildups degrade.

Recently more birds landed here, seeing that we feed young ones as they need to ‘beef up’ ahead of winter. Some of them are still small, visibly underdeveloped, and they don’t know how to fly too well. We still have some time left to prepare them for cold days (especially nights).

Bad for the planet

here are just 30 hours left before this month’s last day and the latest weather forecast predicts temperatures over 20 for October.

This latest year has been unseasonably warm in summer and there’s no reason to suspect that will stop given the growing pollution levels and unwillingness to curb emissions.

People who live in already-hot countries will suffer more, but extreme colds are another phenomenon.

I am not seeing much press coverage about climate change anymore.

This has become more mainstream

ODAY in BBC there’s this article about preparing for emergency in case of war or weather calamity. Everybody knows (common sense) that when our government advises us all to stockpile food it mostly has Russia (or Putin) in mind. Since we are in NATO, if Russia was to invade Denmark or Finland or Poland tomorrow, we’d send British planes and troops there to help. At that stage, we’re participants in a war against Russia and then striking out of service or electric grids can be seen as “fair play” (at wartime).

BBC News is trying to be instructive without becoming alarmist.

It was simple at the start

HIS coming October, i.e. next week or this week, I think this site officially turns 24. Why in October? Because I still vaguely remember the day I started it, how it started, and why it began.

I was on a work shift at the time and I entertained the idea of copying a general template of my lecturer’s page (I no longer remember his name), giving some general background about who I was and more basic information. It still looks something like this.

I probably can pin-point the exact day/date of that, but it would require digging into very old E-mail archives, which I believe I still have. Or maybe my Palm PDA archives (todo), which I know I still have.

Focus needs time, not bells

oday turns out to be another lovely (sunny and warm) day, so plans have changed and we’re going out for the day. This year has been a lot more relaxing than prior ones.

I recently increased my E-mail-checking intervals to 3+ days, seeing that no critical mail is missed if I don’t check my inbox for a few days.

Notifications of any kind appeal to “hunger” and hunger relates to impulse, which comes from human instincts. What’s repulsive about this is that companies latched onto this to case inherent addiction, passing casino ‘science’ onto digital systems.

I need to focus on more labour- and thought-intensive tasks, not limited to filing an appeal and studying the EPO corruption in order to run this long and very important series.

I sometimes wished I had adopted this etiquette much sooner.

Seems wrong

oday I saw a new job ad. It turns out that what I wrote last week (Brett Wilson must be broke) is paying a Paralegal or Administer just £28k/annum. In central London. That barely even covers rent there!

In London, based on some basic research, this is like minimum wage. For people who have a degree in law. Incredible.

But then again, Americans wanted something cheap (shoddy) with poor staff retention. They cannot even distinguish between clients anymore! Under sworn oath a year ago they admitted to the judge they had gotten confused.

What sane person with a law degree wish to work for minimum wage for male thugs? No wonder so many people flee this firm.

“Is it even London’s minimum suvivable wage?” a friend has asked me. “It looks much lower than that.”

Maybe they want their staff to share apartment or even share a room.

“Or else force them to sleep in the sauna,” the friend responsed.