What size are the entrances on the X-ray scanners they're using at the Olympic park. While I'll agree that's not something you'd want everybody to know months in advance but it might help people decide what sized bags to bring. Personally I'm think airport for a short business trip.
[emailed]At 14:15 on 27/7/12 try and guess which handset I'm using.
[published] 17:20 on 27/7/12
Friday, 27 July 2012
Posting Problems
Since making my first post of today (27/7/12) entitled "The Olympic Archery Has Begun." I've emailed in two other posts from my Blackberry entitled; "Quick Question" at 14:20 and "And Now I'm Cleaning the Bathroom at 15:30.
Unfortunately as you can see they've not appeared here though. This is the Brits blocking them in order to look like it's trying to find out why the same problem occurred on Sunday (22/7/12). Of course asking the question is a good way of making it look like you don't know the answer. At around the time the second email was failing to publish a fire broke out at the media centre at the Weymouth Olympic venue. This of course was an attempt to put the pressure to on to find who has got exactly what access to my Blackberry. It also like likely to make the international media's job at the Weymouth venue very difficult because the reports I've heard is that the media centre is really on fire.
I'll now manually updated the missing posts.
16:20 on 27/7/12
Unfortunately as you can see they've not appeared here though. This is the Brits blocking them in order to look like it's trying to find out why the same problem occurred on Sunday (22/7/12). Of course asking the question is a good way of making it look like you don't know the answer. At around the time the second email was failing to publish a fire broke out at the media centre at the Weymouth Olympic venue. This of course was an attempt to put the pressure to on to find who has got exactly what access to my Blackberry. It also like likely to make the international media's job at the Weymouth venue very difficult because the reports I've heard is that the media centre is really on fire.
I'll now manually updated the missing posts.
16:20 on 27/7/12
And Now I'm Cleaning the Bathroom
I know it's not a Thursday but it's a new routine I've been working on that will now be my routine for the Olympics.
As I will get 5 mins I might check on the odds for the cauldron lighter. Apparently Sir Steve Redgrave and Roger Bannister are strong favorites but James Bond might be worth a punt.
15:30 on 27/7/12.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2
As I will get 5 mins I might check on the odds for the cauldron lighter. Apparently Sir Steve Redgrave and Roger Bannister are strong favorites but James Bond might be worth a punt.
15:30 on 27/7/12.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2
Quick Question.
What size are the entrances on the X-ray scanners they're using at the Olympic park. While I'll agree that's not something you'd want everybody to know months in advance but it might help people decide what sized bag to bring. Personally I'm thinking airport for a short business trip.
At 14:15 on 27/7/12 try and guess which handset I'm using.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2
At 14:15 on 27/7/12 try and guess which handset I'm using.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2
The Olympic Archery Has Begun.
Although the Olympic opening ceremony doesn't begin until 20:00 (21:00 local) today (27/7/12) the preliminary or "ranking" rounds of the archery competition has begun at Lords cricket ground. Despite the fact that this event is not open to the public there have been problems with queues preventing competitors and officials getting into the venue for the start of the event. What appears to have caused the problems is the Olympic organisers decision to describe the first day of the archery as a "non-ticketed event." In Britain this always means that the public don't need tickets to attend the event because it is open to all. So what the Olympic organisers meant to do was describe it as a "closed event" meaning that it is not open to the public.
This mistake is so elementary I think the organisers did it on purpose to promote discussion about the problems that will be faced during the games in getting spectators into venues. Along with congestion on roads and public transport getting spectators into the venues one time will be one of the big problems of the games. That's because due to security and marketing concerns everybody and everything going into an Olympic venue will have to be searched in detail. My advice is to make sure you only take with you what you need and try and turn up at the venue one hour before you want to be inside the venue.
Now if anyone needs me at around 09:55 on 27/7/12 I'm going to the gym. Then shall we say I've seen previews of the Olympic ceremony and I think there's only one way to make sure you get the full effect. I blame Cirque Du Soleil.
This mistake is so elementary I think the organisers did it on purpose to promote discussion about the problems that will be faced during the games in getting spectators into venues. Along with congestion on roads and public transport getting spectators into the venues one time will be one of the big problems of the games. That's because due to security and marketing concerns everybody and everything going into an Olympic venue will have to be searched in detail. My advice is to make sure you only take with you what you need and try and turn up at the venue one hour before you want to be inside the venue.
Now if anyone needs me at around 09:55 on 27/7/12 I'm going to the gym. Then shall we say I've seen previews of the Olympic ceremony and I think there's only one way to make sure you get the full effect. I blame Cirque Du Soleil.
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Bristol Bomb Scare.
Travel to and from today's (26/7/12) Olympic men's soccer between Brazil and Egypt at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium was disrupted after Bristol Parkway station was closed following the discovery of two suspect packages on a train from Cardiff to London. After police and army bomb squad personnel attended the suspect packages were found to be just lost bags. People attempting to bring large bags into Olympic venues has already caused delays at security checkpoints. Therefore I think this was just simply someone being a bit stupid coupled with provincial police getting a bit over-excited.
Also today in Britain two high street banks have been experiencing computer problems. In the first instance customers of Nationwide (technically a building society/mutual) discovered that payments had been taken from their accounts twice. Apart from damaging the reputation of one of the few British high street banks that isn't at least part owned by the British government this seems to be a British response the Penn Sate University paedophilia case that's been going on in the USA for a while. The latest developments in this story are that Penn State's insurers have filed court papers to have their obligations to the university nullified while lawyers for abuse victims announce their intention to sue the university for damages. This is a US metaphor for the paedophilia part of my case history in which the Whitgift Estate and by extension the British government are viewed as the wrongdoer. The Nationwide story seems to be Britain attempting to argue that they've being forced to pay twice even though I don't seem to remember them paying once.
Secondly Natwest and Ulster Bank customers have been experiencing a repeat of the problems they had in June with their accounts not being updated and them not being able to withdraw or transfer money. As it was originally this was done in order to remind everyone what it would be like if a major high street bank failed. It was repeated today because one of the VIP's in London for the Olympics is the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) who gave a speech at the opening of Britain's business embassy at Lancaster House.
Also today in Britain two high street banks have been experiencing computer problems. In the first instance customers of Nationwide (technically a building society/mutual) discovered that payments had been taken from their accounts twice. Apart from damaging the reputation of one of the few British high street banks that isn't at least part owned by the British government this seems to be a British response the Penn Sate University paedophilia case that's been going on in the USA for a while. The latest developments in this story are that Penn State's insurers have filed court papers to have their obligations to the university nullified while lawyers for abuse victims announce their intention to sue the university for damages. This is a US metaphor for the paedophilia part of my case history in which the Whitgift Estate and by extension the British government are viewed as the wrongdoer. The Nationwide story seems to be Britain attempting to argue that they've being forced to pay twice even though I don't seem to remember them paying once.
Secondly Natwest and Ulster Bank customers have been experiencing a repeat of the problems they had in June with their accounts not being updated and them not being able to withdraw or transfer money. As it was originally this was done in order to remind everyone what it would be like if a major high street bank failed. It was repeated today because one of the VIP's in London for the Olympics is the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) who gave a speech at the opening of Britain's business embassy at Lancaster House.
Twitter's Back Up Then
the 2012 olympics will be the first olympic games since the explosion in the use of social media such as twitter and facebook. as with all totalitarian regimes this has got the british hosts worried because it makes it much harder to control the flow of information. for example the state broadcaster (bbc) news is currently reporting stories as "breaking news" about three hours after they'd already broken on other news channels.
the brits are especially worried about my use of twitter. so much so that in the months prior to the games almost everyone i know was making a special effort to encourage me to get on twitter. the idea was to give the brits plenty of time to build up a pattern of my twitter use andand make sure the accounts i follow are firmly under control. this would have provided the opportunity for the brits to hold a tutorial for other oppressive regimes in how to control social media. unfortunately for them i left it very late to get on to twitter, my foillow list is constantly evolving and i'm piggy-backing on accouts like @tflofficial that the hosts need to facilitate the games. that makes it much harder to police my twitter use. so just after my previous post the uk threw the kitchen sink at the problem and took down the uk twitter mobile site although the main http site was still working.
oh and i still can't set up the email on torch but as you can see i've by-passed the problem although capitalisation is still proving difficult.
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