And Then, Lights Out…

   Still here to ‘report’ on a couple of ‘news’ items. First up I see the government are out to make big savings in welfare payments. These savings seem to mainly to be aimed at those with mental health issues thus I’m guessing all those wot would rule over us are facing having their salaries seriously slashed, right?
   The other bit? Well, so, a fire a mile and a bit from Heathrow has, according to the MSM, pretty well shut down global air travel.
   No emergency backup lekky generation at Heathrow? Seems it do have but after a quick Google... it appears that Heathrow had changed its back-up systems in order for it to be net zero compliant. And therefore they had got rid of their diesel generators and have moved towards a biomass generator that was designed not to completely replace the grid but work alongside the grid. And that worked okay didn’t it Ed Minibrain? Look and learn little lad. Let’s hope a whole hell of a lot of green, net zero fanatics got caught-up in this mess.
   And they don’t have battery backup on their communication kit? Hell, in these wondrously tech rich daze, couldn’t they communicate with aircraft via smartphone? Don’t aircraft have radar? Sat-Nav? Google maps? Don’t ground crews include landing chaps with two bats any more?
   Back in the day we wouldn’t let a little lack of lekky interrupt the comings and goings from the rigs...

Quote; Spike Milligan.

“And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.”

And Then In And Out…

•   Nothing to tap out here as the country collapses as we watch other than, prompted by a comment by Andy 5759 regards modern communication. Thought I to myself, when was the last time I sent or received a hand written letter eh?
     Anyhoo, the other day I received a letter from our wondrous grubbimnt excitedly letting me know how much my state pension will shoot up. This was followed a couple of days later by yet another grubbiment mail excitedly letting me know that they’ll be taking most of it back in tax. Money laundering by any other name eh?
     Queue this old number you think?

Quote; Mark Twain.

“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.”

And Then Huge Choices…

   With all that’s going on out there, you might not have noticed a bit o’ news wot’s bumped into our lives. And that would be? Billy at the window is dumping Skype come May.
   Now that’s a bit o’ kit I started using back in the day when younger and had a habit of trying anything new relating to ‘puters. Am I right in saying it was just for messages back then as ‘smart’ phones weren’t a thing.
   Time passed, my little nest of vipers ended up over here and liked to keep in touch with her family in a land far, far away. Excuse my memory, but this was costing something like four pounds a minute until, after a little research I discovered how cheap - four pence a minute? - international calls were using Skype. It’s served us well for many a long year. Yes, I started using it for phone calls as well.
   Wot to do now? With news of the demise of Skype I did an Interweb search on the off-chance there’s some software equivalent to Skype out there now. Result? Ma heed’s spinning with the dizzying number of bits o’ kit there are out there.
   So far, many are disregarded as they require the person called to be running the same bit o’ kit and be online so the search/research continues with, at time of typing, two I keep going back to. And those would be Yolla and Talk360. But the ‘search’ continues. As, at my age, does spinning head syndrome...

 Quote; Steven Spielberg.

“Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.”