Personal

I’ll be travelling for personal reasons to Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, and Hong Kong in late October.

I’ve already been making enquiries, so if you’re interested in getting together then please drop me a line.

There’s a movement started in Denmark to support later risers in society. From the B Society web site

B-persons has an inner day-and-night lasting 25-27 hours, whereas A-persons has one that runs through approximately 23 hours.

A B-person has a strive for staying awake untill late at night — for instance, to go to bed at 1 or 2 a.m. and then sleep a little longer in the morning.

If a B-person and an A-person goes to sleep at the same time, and rise at the same time early, the morning wil be experienced differently as the body-temperature of the A-person is higher than that of the B-person at this point. The B-person therefore has a very good reason for feeling drowsy, as it is still “night” (“time for sleep”) for the B-person.

15-25 percent of the population are B-persons, 10-15 percent are A-persons. The rest of the population are more or less either one or the other, or something in between.

I wonder whether there’s any bias amongst geeks towards being B-people?

It’s not every day you get to see a three-storey elephant and 5 metre girl wandering around the city. More from the BBC. Even if they are French…

If I owe anyone a response, please drop me a reminder since I’ve finally suffered a disk crash and, of course, my backups are a bit out of date. The horse having bolted, I’ve been rushing around buying Firewire disks and that sort of thing.

The thing that really took up time was the effort to recover something from the disk. As John Cleese’s character said in the film Clockwise: the worst thing is hope, once that’s gone it’s not so bad.

Apple support has been good, once pushed, except that I can’t find a copy of the relevant version of Keynote to download. I might have to buy another copy, which is a bit rough. If I’d used Powerpoint, at least I’d be able to work with NeoOffice

And I’m so pleased I use IMAP for email.

SPA 2006 looks like another good year. Not least, of course, because I’m rerunning Storytelling with FIT with Mike Hill and Getting to know your Customer with Andy Pols

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Brian Foote has linked back to my posting and now I realise that I’ve broken blog etiquette by not providing a “via” link, like this one:

via Brian Foote

This is not what I want, this is. 5.6lbs weight. Dongles for VGA (forgot mine again this week). New, incompatible power connection.

Another year to wait, then.

I was trying to upload a keynote presentation to backpack and they wrote up the bug in public…