Just got ahead…

think that it’s fair to say Man United has true potential this season. After a rather poor start this season (losing away to Hull, 0-2) and after a strong end to the last season (winning 3-0) we see it getting ahead and showing signs of resurgence, even after signing up the coach with a proper contract. Even… as in the past this led to disappoitnment and regrets.

Is this current game worthy of appraisement? Everton struggled on many fronts as a club.

Next week’s derby will be… interesting.

In terms of stats, in this away game Man United has been the better team so far.

Manchester City fan will be watching

t’s Sunday and two interesting matches are due. One is the derby’s host for next week, Manchester United, and the other a difficult match (a London derby) for Arsenal. Both started this season with two wins. Only one (or neither) can get a third win.

Across several areas

am very proud to say that our persistent ‘activist’ writings (journalism) have worked. This is paying off. We also earn positive publicity (press) for it.

Techrights, for example, is making strong progress this year regarding much-needed SLAPP reform. To be clear, this is NOT about a single incident, it is about changing the whole system.

Days ago I also resumed coverage regarding patents. We are making the public aware of important issues. I say “we” because we began working with other publishers. They recognise this cannot go on.

Outsourcing of the work to the customers

t is arguably bizarre that some of the more/most computer-literate people are trying hardest to avoid computers where those computers objectively introduce risk.

In the case of banks, I still receive statements in the post, I never use a bank’s “app” (I don’t have a “smart” “phone”) and when something important needs to get done, I’ll quite likely go to a local branch of the bank.

Before computer ownership and Internet connection was simply assumed (now the same for “smart” “phones”) banks provided actual services and were held responsible for mistakes they made.

So we’ve lost something.

That I wish I didn’t get

opened something that wasn’t intended for me. That happened yesterday. I didn’t know who it was for. The name on the envelope didn’t say whether it was the sender or recipient. The envelope was put in the wrong home, pushed through the wrong door. Worse yet, it turns out to have been an important envelope and diverting to another address, untampered, would not be trivial.

Why is it that people put important mail in the wrong home? Without specifying clearly who it is for?

This dilemma has already consumed hours of my time. I even phoned a friend, asking or advice.

The sensitive nature of it (maybe death in a family) makes me uncomfortable.

At the end of the day, it is the fault of the person too careless to pay attention to house numbers.

I still feel some sort of moral responsibility to ameliorate things. If there is grieving, then I don’t want to do this sloppily.

Impact in retrospective

he newspaper of 5 years ago is not read today.

The newspaper of today will be read today.

The newspaper of 5 years ago had impact 5 years ago.

What happened 5 years ago impacts what happens today.

5 years ago there were many days, many newspapers, and each thing reported each day impacted and still impacts the present.

So just because people no longer read newspapers from 5 years ago doesn’t mean the articles in them are of no impact.

If only more people did the same…

t is fair to say that this blog is a lot more active this year than it has ever been. This was a conscious decision and one that I regret not making sooner. I still have many old PDFs and documents of a personal nature – ones that I wrote two decades ago. I estimate that the combined total of these is 200-300 pages. The plan was to revisit them some time in the future, maybe turn these into something publishable.

At the moment I try to focus on exposing wrongdoing, or use writings to illuminate to a large audience things they ought to be aware of.

Yesterday, for instance, I learned from reliable sources that cuts and mass layoffs at Microsoft are massive and under-reported. They still go on next month, but where is the media?