Doing Boole's Thing or The Death of 50 Quid Bloke

The back-to-school cold has surfaced in this family - every year the little bu .... viruses lurk somewhere abroad while we gambol and play in the balmy summer days, just waiting to pounce on the little darlings as they go back to school. Of course the children just shake it off and forget to wash their hands and sneeze and generally follow all the rules of How to Spread a Cold (A. R. P. - Faker and Faker - 2005). Result is adults requesting Soup and CBeebies. Oh all right then - it's not that bad but bed seemed more attractive than getting up this morning.

I'm bored with banking crises - or is it just one banking crisis - certainly seems to be just one bank and therefore just one crisis. Bored also with election campaigns, leadership contests, party conferences but I suppose we have to keep one eye on them rather than just playing all the time. Anyway I'm only bored because I don't understand them. Let The Daily WTF extend it's exposure of bad design and coding practice to every aspect of the world. After all, the mess of Information Systems installed in the world only survive because the real scandal of how bad some of them actually are is concealed because non-IT people don't understand them. You might also say that quite a few of the people involved don't understand them and of course that can be extended to almost anything more complicated than going to the fridge for a bottle of milk - witness the number of wide screen TVs with the aspect ratio wrong when it only takes one button press to correct and you wonder if even this is beyond some people. God forbid if the National curriculum got around to teaching about compound interest. Maybe it does already - I just don't know. Now that the US seems to be turning into the world's largest housing association some people are looking at these times as at least a watershed though for some it is no less than The End of Capitalism which must be hyperbole or some way of pushing an alternative agenda. As I said I just don't understand it all. All I do know is that some people are fiddling in both the modern sense and the Nero sense.