Is this country still governed by actual laws?

oday marks a year since a hearing we were not invited to because hired guns tricked a court while breaching Civil Procedure Rules.

This is a topic I’ll be covering one day. It’s definitely in the public interest to know when rules are breached by so-called ‘law’ firms to exploit tragedies and cover up strangulation of women.

Can one trust air crews?

HE BBC says that one pilot attacked another in a plane – reminiscent of what happened in Germanwing when one pilot locked the other out of the cockpit (the more senior pilot blocked) to crash everyone into a mountain.

That makes one wonder what happens to some (still) missing places like the one from Malaysia.

Yes, in Europe

oday it’s above 20 degrees again (it was last night as well), so sunbathing was feasible whilst at the same time coming up with ideas for articles and snoozing in between. October is exactly half a day away and I have ideas of EPO coverage that can impact patent affairs.

Corruption in Europe needs to be spoken about, even if there is a tendency to focus on Russia, China, and the US.

Corruption is everywhere, says an old adage; that’s not an excuse for looking away or not reporting it.

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.

Some things would not happen to technology (tech) experts because they know how things work and what to expect (or watch out for)

N the past 2+ decades I did not lose data. Prior to that I only lost things I did not value, like old and mostly meaningless E-mails from the 1990s (not MP3s, I had those backed up). I make regular backups, I keep a spare machine in case the main one fails, and I maintain the hardware to make sure it works or be fully aware when it is about to fail. When my storage device finally failed in January 2023, for example, I had already prepared for it for about 12 months because there were warning signs. I no longer stored on it anything essential. Likewise, in 2020, I moved away from “ted” when it was giving some warnings, so when “ted” (used by me since 2013) finally died nothing of value was lost and no time wasted. I also keep external backups and we have fire extinguishing kits just in case.

People who have been around in tech for a long time and properly understand tech prepare for disasters in advance. So they don’t become disasters at all, they just involve a bit of work (to get fully back to speed).

Healthy fish for healthy mind

ast night I added a fluorescent light for the fish, it is external to the tank, and so far it also helps illuminate the desk area at night (days are quickly getting shorter), so it is double-purpose ‘thingie’ really. There is a light switch that controls whether it is on or off, it is easy top use, and it is within arm’s reach.

The fish tank experience next to my own desk (not Rianne’s) began a week ago. So far, so good.