Alfred Adler Quotes

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them

A WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS

 This happens to me so frequently I’ve started trying to take control of it.

Going off your example, the delivery is supposed to arrive at 2pm, but I already know it will not arrive until I jump in the shower. It will arrive as soon as I get in the shower whether that’s now or an hour from now, so I might as well just shower now and get it over with.

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CUCApresident

33 points·1 day ago

My mum calls this the Pulp Fiction effect, from that bit with Uma Thurman in the diner. Your food will arrive as soon as you leave to go to the bathroom, so if you’re hungry, go to the bathroom

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calabasas14

8 points·1 day ago

I’ve been living with it for about 2 years now. It sure if it’s something that stops, but it’s still shocking how consistent the results are.

Is there a word or phrase to describe the act of waiting to do something because you’re expecting something else to happen, then the thing you’re expecting takes longer than you thought, so you commence the thing you were waiting to do, only for the thing you were expecting to happen happens?

Yeah, it's called lighting a cigarette at the bus stop

 it's important to have views but it's also important to know what you're talking about

This perfectly sums up the gap between the woke self-image and reality. The woke affect to care for the excluded, yet cannot find room for talented people of colour in their own ranks. They present themselves as passionate campaigners for justice, yet they are ready to yield to the whims of the mob and dole out summary retribution to anyone deemed a heretic. They claim to be the allies of the oppressed, yet have no time to listen to their real priorities. They purport to seek greater diversity, yet require all women or all ethnic minorities to share their view or be branded quislings.

best qualified as - 

poacher turned gamekeeper

GO TO THE MATRESSES

 I'd best run that past xxxxx as a courtesy .......

‘It’s windy, isn’t it?’ says the first. ‘No, I think its Thursday,’ says the second. ‘So am I,’ says the third. ‘Let’s all go and have a cup of tea.’

 

Agreed: we ought to be woke but in the original sense of race conscious. As it is, ‘woke’ for Europeans reverses the original meaning, entailing a rejection of inherited identity. No one’s captured the attitude of this author and those of his ilk better than the mighty truth-teller VS Naipaul. Of middle class whites who take up Third World causes Naipaul wrote of “Those who in the end do no more than celebrate their own security.” That’s from ‘Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad’ written in the 70s about the daughter of a Conservative MP who took up with a black power cult in London and ended up in a grave in Trinidad.

Only Europeans don’t take their own side. As another great man of truth Rene Girard put it: ‘Not only is the revolt against ethnocentrism an invention of the West, it cannot be found outside the West.’ It’s no wonder that as people become increasingly aware of their numerical advantage, the scapegoating of ethnic Europeans intensifies here and elsewhere. Even without further immigration ethn1c cleans1ng of indigenous Britons is already mathematically guaranteed by fertility rates alone. ‘Minority’ births will be a majority by 2030; British schoolchildren a minority in British schools by 2035.

Does this author expect the antagonism against natives to go into reverse as what Powell called the “alien wedge” expands ever further? Talking of Powell, he did a hatchet job on Powell’s prophetic 1968 speech on here a while ago. Powell reckoned he didn’t have the right *not* to voice the fears of his constituents on their demographic displacement.

And it shan’t be long before native Britons won’t have the option of not being woke in the original race conscious rather than the current exclusively European anti-European ‘elite’ sense. Of necessity they’ll be proper woke. And that consciousness will be born out of the most primal human response: reciprocity and the desire for belonging / membership / identity - choose your own term.

The luxury of siding against your own group, denouncing them as “racist”, what we call “left”, what Roger Scruton termed “culture of repudiation” won’t be available, that’s if the group is to maintain itself at all: assuming ‘elites’ don’t convert, assimilating with the majority as per the Michel Houellebecq scenario envisaged for France in his novel ‘Submission’ set in 2020s, where the allure of young p*ssy overtakes all other considerations re ‘elite’ loyalties.

 Defenders of critical race theory training often miscategorise it as a standard form of essential workplace training, but training people in critical race theory is not like training them in protocols of data protection where compliance with the law can reasonably be required. It is more like training them in a belief system like Christianity and denying employees the right to be openly Muslim, Jewish, Hindu or atheist. Nobody should be required to pretend to believe themselves to be racist or to believe in invisible systems of whiteness if they don’t.

Is Hart correct that critical race theory and anti-racism training simply want all people to be recognised as equally human? No, this universal humanist approach is explicitly criticised in critical race theory as the failed liberal approach. Critical race theory works by foregrounding identity, not our shared humanity. Is the Trump administration thus correct to call it “divisive”? Absolutely.

Freedoms from and Freedoms to:

We don't confuse those rights on which our freedom rests with entitlements to things which are not universal and reciprocal

 

 

 BLUNT TOOL  

 Thomas Sowell - competing visions - society can be perfected and attempts to do this make things worse etc

Matter and Anti-Matter

Bouyancy

John Cleese - 

The emancipation of any persecuted minority goes through transitional phases - Mathew Parris - camp is over

 CUT TO THE CHASE

COOKIE CUTTER - CONFIGURATION

LOSING GOODWILL / REPUTATIONAL CAPITAL

TAKE THE REINS

 

 

Oh wearisome condition of humanity, 3

Born under one law to another bound,

Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity,

Created sick, commanded to be sound.

What meaneth nature by these diverse laws,

Passion and reason, self-division’s cause?

Is it the mark or majesty of power

To make offences that it may forgive?

Nature herself doth her own self deflower

To hate those errors she herself doth give


 . . If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

Derived from the Latin punctus contra punctum, “point counter point” signifies “note against note,” which may be depicted by a vertical line and dots representing a chord, the basis of harmony (Erickson 3; Huxley, Letters 296 n272). The phrase clearly implies a musical motif, but its ultimately becoming the title of Huxley’s new work was the decision of his American publisher, Doubleday Doran and Company, and not his own, a fact that reinforces the idea that music was not part of the author’s original conception behind the novel. In fact, Point Counter Point replaced the title that Huxley himself had expected to use, “Diverse Laws,” a phrase he extracted from a stanza near the end of Mustapha (1609), a closet-drama by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, based on atrocities in sixteenth-century Turkey.

This is bracing stuff. Yet it is rather unsatisfactory in explaining the recent upsurge in authoritarian and populist movements. Intellectuals have always been vain and attracted to silly ideas that may line their pockets or boost their standing. More interesting is why the populist Right – Trump, Orban, Law and Justice, the Leave Campaign – have generated such large followings. It is here that Applebaum’s arguments begin to fall short.

Beware the unholy alliance that wants to make working from home the norm

Many in their twenties and thirties feel cut off from colleagues and the wider corporate context of work during lockdown

Since lockdown began, it has sometimes felt as if every columnist and politician, every corporate strategist and trendy academic has propounded a single, apparently unchallengeable truth: that working from home is unquestionably better.

The internet has destroyed the logic of the office. All those years people spent trudging into work were a ridiculous imposition that not only left employees less productive, but required companies to maintain costly and unnecessary premises. All we hear about is the better work-life balance enjoyed by (often) upper-middle class professionals during lockdown, the money saved on commuting, the time freed up from the endless rotation of pointless meetings.

I have heard a very different view from friends in their twenties and thirties. Many of them feel cut off from colleagues, performing work with no real idea of the wider corporate context, and none of the informal feedback that is so useful for progression at that age. Technology has kept things ticking over, but there are fewer opportunities to take initiative or impress senior staff.


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The loss of a physical separation between work and home is keenly felt, as is any culture of collaboration or innovation beyond what is permitted by pre-arranged Zoom calls. Working from home is less appealing if you face a choice between doing so in your dingy flatshare or moving back in with your parents, perhaps for many months. Clearly we aren’t returning to normal any time soon; few businesses will use the responsibility the Prime Minister has now conferred on them to bring their staff back to the office in full.

Even if they were inclined to do so, there are immense practical problems if they want to be “Covid secure”. But nor should we swallow the sometimes thoughtless narrative of the home-working lobby. They seem determined to turn what was once a privilege into an entitlement. There have even been suggestions that the Government should enshrine a “right” to home working into law.



But what of the “right” (if we must talk in those terms) to office working? What of those companies that reject the fashionable mantra that home working is better, and instead think it “breeds silo thinking and tribalism”, as the entrepreneur Luke Johnson put it the other day? What if they ask their staff to come back, and the staff refuse? Will the authorities stand by them?

Or will the need to “consult” with employees the Government is insisting on mean firms will be trapped with a system they know is suboptimal?

I am not denying that some people may perform better at home, or that some companies may be right to dispense with expensive fripperies such as canteens or “thinking pods”.

The retreat from the office may even have the benefit of disempowering increasingly imperial, and increasingly woke, HR departments.

But there is a danger here: that an alliance of corporate interests and established professionals will, under the cover of increasing employees’ choice to work as they please, destroy the ability to meaningfully choose. And much else besides.

Now she is on home soil, hasn’t that changed? Rather than deferring to him during public appearances, she seems not only to script the words her husband says but she finishes his sentences when she thinks he is rambling.

Haven't got the spend

Leave as is

Drill down

Ye by Burna Boy

Wookie - scrappy

hardy caprio rapper

Memories by Kamikaze

Seek to reach out for some sort of radical solution on the basis of which the real problem is obscured.

"You’re not easy-going, but you’re passionate, and that’s good. And when you get upset about the little things, I think that I’m pretty good about making you feel better about that. And that’s good too. So, they can say that you’re high maintenance, but it’s okay, because I like…maintaining you."

WFH may be comfortable for fifty-somethings who know their work like the back of their hands - but they learnt their trade somewhere. That somewhere was probably an office, watching the generation above, emulating the best bits. Due to the marvels of broadband, we have young adult children working on video calls all over our locked-down house, but the drawbacks are clear. There is no one from whom to learn the basics, or to answer the simple questions that too unimportant to commit to an e-mail, but which are a vital part of learning the ropes. This lack of face-to-face contact turns the learning curve into a steep uphill slope.

Here is something that I think is becoming more and more true the longer I spend working.


There is ”work” and there is your “career”. The latter is probably more important than the former.


Your career comprises things like the technical skills you need to build up to have longevity in this sector, soft skills you will need to build to move up the ladder and so on. Things that have value to you regardless of who is paying your pay check.


Then there is “work”, which is the things your employer is paying you to do. Maybe they want you to type “int vlan” a hundred times a day, or do things sub optimally, maybe they want you to make their stack optimal.


When there is little overlap between work and your career, then work becomes a burden. Then you have people complaining about a lack of work/life balance. If there’s good intersection between the two, then people tend to be happier.


There are also boundaries you need to set with your employer. It is true that one person not being able to set boundaries, or that one person who answers their phone all the time because they have nothing better to do, can wind up causing an expectation that all others in the team need to do the same. A reasonable employer will understand that not all people are the same. The 20 something with no family has different demands on their time vs the 30 something with a partner and young kids. The 50 something with grown up kids may look at work differently to the previous two examples. I enjoy my work, but I set firm boundaries with my employer.


There will never be enough time, but if you wind up doing things of no value for your career in the time you have, then that is on you.

Feilding those requests the moment

Hot-patch

UI / UX - User interface, User experience

If the BBC want to produce propaganda and people want to pay for it, fine. There's no reason why I should.

Metcalf

There was a poster in a friend's room at college (many, many years ago) featuring the words of Pastor Niemoller; 'First they came for...'
I have recently come to recall this almost daily, and completely agree with the author that it's high time people who believe in Enlightenment values stand up to anybody whose response to history is tear it down or smash it, whose response to dissent is to tear at it and smash it, whose response to people whose opinions differ from their own is to.. well, you get the idea.
Where I'd part company is the comments that seem to imply that a line should be drawn that indicates some statues should be torn down, and others not. To the Taliban, the Bamiyan Buddhas (idolatry) were as offensive those of slave traders are to us. The solution is not to erase and destroy, but to learn and build, not to forget. Slave-trader statue? Build a bigger statue of Wilberforce close by with a plaque on both statues explaining what happened. Build a Martin Luther King statue opposite the confederate general.
A principled stance here is not to define what statues you (personally, and in this period of your life) like and don't like, it is to define whether or not society is best served by destroying its symbols and erasing its past, or not.

Edvard Grieg

If you cannot defend say Tommy Robinson’s right to freedom of speech you do not believe in freedom of speech and you aren’t a liberal.

JK Rowling and Suzanne Moore would never have defended anyone they disagreed with, had such a person been cancelled. Neither of them had anything to say about what happened to the girls in Rotherham etc. Their defence of women is a very particular defence of a particular kind of leftish feminism. They helped made the beds they are now lying in, much more comfortably than all those child victims of rape, torture and prostitution, for whom they were not prepared to speak out.

Those who still occupy their exalted positions and refuse to condemn outright, not just the shutting down of free debate, but the shutting up of victims of violence have no right to complain when their turn comes.

https://life.spectator.co.uk/articles/the-week-in-facts-who-stopped-mike-tyson-from-hitting-on-naomi-campbell/

June 27

A.J. Ayer (died 1989). In 1987 the eminent philosopher and academic found himself, aged 77, at a party where Naomi Campbell was receiving unwelcome attention from Mike Tyson. He politely asked the boxer to leave Campbell alone. Tyson replied: ‘Do you know who the f**k I am? I’m the heavyweight champion of the world.’ ‘And I,’ said Ayer, ‘am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest we talk about this like rational men.’

By now it was not just that Watson, Remayne and Radcliffe had ‘called out’ and ‘spoken up’ about Rowling’s views. They had spoken up — as reporter after reporter put it – against Rowling’s ‘controversial’ views. It is a very interesting thing this modern use of the word ‘controversial’, often and indeed usually put in front of a person who holds views which are in absolutely no way controversial.

For his part, Boyega is the perfect advertisement for how to play the celebrity game without self-censoring your beliefs or your background. The son of a pastor and a carer in Peckham, his roots are refreshingly ordinary – a rare thing in Hollywood. As I used to joke when I lived there in the ‘90s, if you only know Peckham from Only Fools and Horses then let me tell you – television has a way of glamourising neighbourhoods.

Garza, Cullors and Tometi insist on an unbroken continuity between Martin Luther King’s movement and Black Lives Matter. But this continuity exists mainly in the imaginations of BLM leaders.




The spirituality of Black Lives Matter, like its ideology, is difficult to pin down. BLM’s three founders are all graduates in the humanities or social sciences; Cullors was a Fulbright scholar.




Their lingua franca is the postmodern jargon of Queer postmodernism, which isn’t big in African American circles. They have used it to evolve a concept of ‘Black’, always with a capital B, which is at the same time mystical, slippery and separatist. You can hear traces of it in the Bethesda Promises, which refer to ‘racism’ and ‘anti-blackness’ as different things.




I’m not suggesting that Black Lives Matter doesn’t enjoy the support of the black community. But to grasp its essence you really need to be familiar with the theoretical underpinnings of identity politics — an inescapable ordeal for millions of young American whites, but not so much for young blacks. As a general rule, the more elite the university, the more fanatical the support of its student body for BLM.

Not coincidentally, these are also the universities in which identity politics most closely resembles what Alexandra DeSanctis, writing in National Review, describes as ‘a creed for the godless’ that takes special relish in excommunication. Hence the appeal of ritual promises.

I think we can trust the Maryland protesters to stay true to their word. They know the score. Three-quarters of Bethesda’s residents have college degrees; half have graduate degrees. The only problem is that less than three percent of them are African Americans. Where are they going to find those black neighbors to love?

Bare-metal hypervisors can dynamically allocate available resources depending on the current needs of a particular VM. A type 2 hypervisor occupies whatever you allocate to a virtual machine.

When you assign 8GB of RAM to a VM, that amount will be taken up even if the VM is using only a fraction of it. If the host machine has 32GB of RAM and you create three VMs with 8GB each, you are left with 8GB of RAM to keep the physical machine running. Creating another VM with 8GB of ram would bring down your system. This is critical to keep in mind, so as to avoid over-allocating resources and crashing the host machine.

When confronted with the messages, Roberts told Guido, “Over the past few months I have been dealing with some personal matters that have affected my mental health and clouded my judgement. During this period, I have made some mistakes and I apologise for any offence caused.”

Publish, and be damned.

What did her memoirs reveal about the Duke? He was, she wrote, her 'faithful lover, whose love survived six winters'. He was 'my own Wellington, who sighed over me and groaned over me by the hour, talked of my wonderful beauty, ran after me . . .' and he was 'my constant visitor', a 'modern Bluebeard', 'my old beau'.

Publish and be damned.

Here, in sight of God.

No machine produces more than it consumes

BOB CREWE GENERATION - MUSIC TO WATCH THE GIRLS GO BY

OTIS REED - CIGARETTES AND COFFEE

Mr Hannaford enjoys pretending to be ignorant.

We're an informal organisation !

They come and they go.

Why am I with all these stupid dummies - they were invited.

What happened in Austria? Hitler happened. He threw you out? She threw him out.

Is the camera-eye a reflection of reality or is reality a reflection of the camera eye? or is the camera merely a phallus.

We are blacked out. Just watch the birth rate nine months from tonight.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

While Lines -

The problem with this whodunit/whydunit genre — Twin Peaks set the template for this — is that it allows for an awful lot of self-indulgent meandering, invariably leading to a dénouement so bathetic, and involving a plot revelation so tortured and convoluted that you wonder why you bothered. That’s why it’s so important with these things that on the way to your inevitable disappointment, you at least get to hang with a few characters you care about.

But so far — okay, I’m only two episodes in, but that’s the equivalent of a decent-length feature film — I find myself spectacularly uninvolved with any of the dramatis personae. I hate irksome, gobby, bleach-blond free spirit Axel Collins and quite understand why someone, everyone actually, would want him beaten up and killed. His old friends, such as bloated, fading DJ and drug dealer Marcus, are tragic losers. And his sister Zoe (Laura Haddock) sucks the joy out of every scene like a Dementor.

As our protagonist and guide, Zoe — a librarian who blossoms — just doesn’t work. I get the theory: female perspective; emotional journey; couples drama, rather than just boysy thriller. But that’s exactly the problem. It just feminises and waters down (with grisly themes like Zoe’s personal growth trajectory) what should essentially be a stylised, punchy, laddish caper in the spirit of the infinitely more exciting and edgier (and better acted) Mad Dogs.

Blur the edges of the story

He who sincerely seeks God has already found him.

First steps - Van Gogh

I'm often asked why I didn't pursue a career in physics, given that's what I graduated in.

At high school physics was my passion. Why? Because I was easily top of my class.

Passion is often driven by the ego - people love being great at things.

At university, I began to chill, and most of the competition didn't - my passion for physics quickly died.

But even if I had remained passionate about physics I wouldn’t have pursued a career in it - the pay was too low.

My parents were economic migrants - they came to the UK for money. That materialistic mindset rubs off on the next generation.

However, there was an indigenous British friend of mine at school who was even more passionate than I was about physics. He did a PhD.

But after years in research, he switched to investment banking.

And so did another physics PhD I know. He later told me it was a waste of his life.

The realities of not having enough money hit them.

Following your passion often doesn't work out as well as it sounds.

One day the reality of the world actually revolving around money might hit you, and by then it could be too late.

Money is power, a private education for your kids, the best healthcare, a big house, and perceived success.

Like in most things in life, you have to find your own right balance.

A few years ago I became convinced that the people who worked for me should work from home more. I was influenced in this by the work of Nassim Taleb, who argues that a high degree of variation may be better than monotonous pursuit of a supposedly optimal average. This led me to think it might be better to partition work into periods of high sociability interspersed with days of self--seclusion, as an alternative to the neither-fish-nor-fowl halfway-house of the open-plan office.

What I discovered was that it is not enough to ‘allow’ people to work remotely. You must actively encourage it. If remote working is merely ‘allowed’, it is perceived as a concession and people feel they are burning reputational capital whenever they take up the option. Only active evangelism normalises the behaviour.

I use ‘evangelism’ deliberately here. A glance at history shows that a huge number of socially beneficial behaviours have spread not in response to coercive legislation but by norm-setting, whether led by royalty or religion.

A J Wensinck - The Muslim Creed

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

It adds another straw to the camel's back...

Occams Razor

Jacob's Ladder

There is little real difference in the approach of the BBC, Sky News, ITV and C4 whilst committed Brexiteers have few friends in the newspaper world and Cummings, who has been abrasive and dismissive with the ‘lobby’ even fewer. Until some semblance of political plurality is restored to the media, the government needs to, with a few exceptions, treat them as the opposition.

DNS Management

Network Switching

Residential Network Services

Corporate Wireless Network

Visitor Wireless Access

Network Border Routing

Remote Network Access

Eduroam Wireless Network

Wired Networking

Wireless Access Points

So they drove north. Much has been made of the 270-mile journey, as if its length made it wicked, but the geographical fact is that Co. Durham is a long way from London. Only a comically Westminster-centred view of the world regards distance from London as a moral aberration.

I have two newspaper subs. One is the DT and the other is a concessionary deal with the Times. I was going to cancel the Times because once the deal is over it's expensive, and stay with the DT. But since the Telegraph decided to become a broadsheet version of the Mail Online I find that I'm actually avoiding it because I can't stand the hysterical headlines and useless journalism (Camilla Tominey, one of their main political correspondents used to be a royal correspondent ffs!). So I think I'll probably cancel the DT and stay with the Times, which at least keeps my bp near normal.

Now the nation is reopening and the Church of England still cannot manage to be any more relevant than it was at the beginning of this crisis. It has sat by while the nation’s garden centres have reopened and appears to be not at all bothered by this further relegation of its position in the nation’s life.

God, I loathe the bishops. Not Beth Rigby, Robert Peston and the other hacks who seem to be auditioning to guide the morality of the nation. I mean the actual bishops, who turn out to be even less use than these competitively incensed cross-examiners.


On the BBC, Sky and other channels, various presenters in need of something to talk about in this moment of national crisis have spent the last couple of days stressing that a number of bishops have come out as anti-Cummings. The views of the bishops have come up at press conferences and even the Guardian chose to report the thrilling news that ‘Bishops turn on Boris Johnson for defending Dominic Cummings’. If you care to read the Guardian or view Channel 4 News on a normal day you would be surprised to find them citing bishops in this manner.

People who talk incessantly - need to fill the air with words

TRIAL BY JUKEBOX JURY

Access ports

An access port is a connection on a switch that transmits data to and from a specific VLAN. Because an access port is only assigned to a single VLAN, it sends and receives frames that aren’t tagged and only have the access VLAN value. This doesn’t cause signal issues because the frames remain within the same VLAN. If it does happen to receive a tagged packet, it will simply avoid it. This is a simpler configuration, but not the most efficient choice if the network is even moderately complex. 

Trunk ports

Unlike an access port, a trunk port can transmit data from multiple VLANs. If you have a dozen VLANs on a particular switch, you don’t need additional cables or switches for each VLAN—just that single link. A trunk port allows you to send all those signals for each switch or router across a single trunk link. In contrast to an access port, a trunk port must use tagging in order to allow signals to get to the correct endpoint. Trunk ports typically offer higher bandwidth and lower latency than access ports. 

Layer 3 solution is more secure than Layer 2, where you can control the flow and direction of the packet more efficiently.

I think the question you want to ask is, "What is the difference between using a layer 2 vs. layer 3 switch to connect two floors and 170 users?". Spanning tree protocol is designed to close off forwarding loops and prevent broadcast storms. It will work the same on either type of switch.

In short, a layer 2 switch forwards packets based on MAC address only. A layer 3 switch can forward on IP address and provides additional features for filtering and QOS.

As for the effect on DHCP, that would depend upon your connectivity needs and your addressing scheme. All 170 users could be part of the same DHCP scope and use the same default gateway. You could also create vlans on the switches to isolate work groups and assign separate DHCPscopes to each. That works well for in-group communication, but communication between vlans requires a router. I hope this has helped clear things up a little. Write if you've got more questions.

 “So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

PUTTANESCA

Anarchist:

Right, everybody out! Smash the Spinning Jenny! Burn the Rolling Rosalind! Destroy the Going-up-and-down-a-bit-and-then-moving-along Gertrude! And death to the stupid Prince who grows fat on the profits! [he tosses a lit bomb to the Prince]


Prince George:

I say, how exciting! This play's getting better and better! Bravo! Bravo!


Blackadder:

It's not a play anymore, sir. Put the bomb down and make your way quietly to the exit.


Prince George:

Blackadder, you old thing, your problem is you can't tell when something's real and when it's not! [the bomb explodes]

Educational Services Education: continues to be plagued by errors, social engineering and inadequately secured email credentials. With regard to incidents, DoS attacks account for over half of all incidents in Education. Frequency 382 incidents, 99 with confirmed data disclosure

Top 3 patterns:

Miscellaneous Errors, Web Application Attacks, and Everything Else represent 80% of breaches

Threat actors External (57%), Internal (45%), Multiple parties (2%) (breaches)

Actor motives: Financial (80%), Espionage (11%), Fun (4%), Grudge (2%), Ideology (2%) (breaches)

Data compromised Personal (55%), Credentials (53%), and Internal (35%) (breaches)

In its basic functionality, a firewall monitors the incoming and/or outgoing traffic and decides whether to block a particular packet or let it through based on a predefined set of rules.

Nmap has been discovered in two new movies! It's used to hack Matt Damon's brain in Elysium and also to launch nuclear missiles in G.I. Joe: Retaliation!

Where you require the use of passwords, they should be easy to remember, but hard for somebody else to guess. An example strategy to use is three random words (for example, dogbluetree). You should not enforce unnecessarily complex rules on staff, as it increases the burden on them and rarely increases security. For example many users simply swap an I for a 1 or ! symbol, and hackers know this.

Karen Lynn - Old Town, Nice

The Haunted Manor - William Holman Hunt-  Wimbledon Park

Place Furstenberg, desde mi perspectiva

The Room, Manchester St - Hockney

Ed Hopper - 'Sunday'

'As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart'.

No Sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. 

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. 

In contradiction to those, who, having a wife and children, prefer domestic enjoyments to those which a tavern affords, I have heard him assert, that a tavern-chair was the throne of human felicity.—'As soon,' said he, 'as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience an oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude : when I am seated, I find the master courteous, and the servants obsequious to my call; anxious to know and ready to supply my wants : wine there exhilarates my spirits, and prompts me to free conversation and an interchange of discourse with those whom I most love : I dogmatise and am contradicted, and in this conflict of opinion and sentiments I find delight.'
from Sir John Hawkins' Life of Johnson

Blue sky thinking

Middle-aged man in the making

Slave system - Calling black holes

OPEN SYSTEMS INTERCONNECTION REFERENCE MODEL:

The OSI model is device to show how protocols work with networks to carry data.

Also as a reference for organisations to use when creating new protocols - BY using the model organisations could be assured the the new protocols they created would fit in to an overall architecture without having to re-invent the wheel each time they did it.

Any port in a storm 

One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me."

Hatreds are the cinders of affection

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what's really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.
The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
- The good not done, the love not given, time
Torn off unused - nor wretchedly because
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;
But at the total emptiness for ever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.

This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast, moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear - no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anasthetic from which none come round.

And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small, unfocused blur, a standing chill
That slows each impulse down to indecision.
Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace-fear when we are caught without
People or drink. Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave
Lets no one off the grave.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can't escape,
Yet can't accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

So far, the evidence for the effectiveness of the government’s measures is scanty. It is quite hard to explain why energetically throttling the economy and putting the nation under house arrest will save lives. And the fact that the deaths from Covid-19 peaked on April 8th, almost certainly too early to have been affected by the beginning of the Panic on the night of March 23rd, does not help this Cabinet of None of The Talents. The only thing on its side is the good old ‘Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc’ claim which even Mr Johnson (with his smattering of Latin) knows is a fallacy (It means ''Because B came after A, B was caused by A'. Everyone knows this is often not the case) . At the moment the premier is like some Druid who has sacrificed the village cow on the pretext of preventing a flood - and is now saying that the sacrifice was effectual, because there has been no flood. Are we really so credulous that we require no other evidence?

You can't manufacture passion.

Waking up everyday to work hard for something you don't particularly love - that's called stress.

Waking up everyday to work hard for something that you love - called passion.

Figure your most productive time >> Morning / late nights

Physical barriers /

HEADPHONE BLUFF

Work remotely from time to time

Book a conference room for personal work time

LISTENING >>

What often passes as listening is just waiting to speak until the other person stops talking so you can offer your brilliant opinion.

The two most important people at your job are your boss and the person in the payroll department who cuts your cheque. 

The company's org chart describes the formal lines of communication which need to be followed and respected but what I'm talking about are the informal lines of communication, the relationships you build with people in other departments > The informal network is often the way things get done in an organisation. 

Reach out to everyone and find out what it is they do and how you may be able to help them. 

Measure you performance - don't rely on smiles, pats on the back or kind words.

"I think they like me" strategy not reliable.

1) Get the metrics in writing - what will measure your performance

2) Design additional metrics to shoot for.

Reliability >

Admit when experience set-back, or need clarification.

1) Co-create a schedule

2) Help free up time. Take Care of Business

3) CLOSE THE LOOP

Has it been done, is it being done, do you need extra help have you ran in to some problems?

Focus on accomplishments and results.

I want to hit the ground running > anything you can suggest to ease that transition.

1 > Clear picture in writing of exactly what it is you're supposed to be doing. Nuts and bolts of JD.

2 > Say yes

 Behind the scenes, My function is to serve the greater good.

3 >  Be flexible > Formal job title / description may have little or no relationship to the real work you'll be doing.

"people join companies and leave bosses"

Relationship with supervisor important >

"Smart with energy and a willingness to get the job done whatever it takes" 

"Positive attitude" 

"Enjoy collaboration" 

"Sense of humour" Unless you're working in A&E if you make a mistake no-one is going to die. 

NEW JOB >>

Humility and BEGINNER'S MIND

Energy is the central principle of Johnson’s career. “Intelligence is all about energy,” he once told an interviewer. “You can have the brightest people in the world who simply can’t be arsed. No good to man or beast.”


The most misleading idea I picked up at school was that success is the result of intelligence. It's not: it's the result of doing things. This seems so obvious now, I can't believe nobody drummed it into me at school. So I never did an internship or tried to get myself elected to a prestigious student body. I assumed my good grades would transform themselves into a job. I spent three years working in a bookshop. When we think we see intellect what we're really looking at is energy. The really energetic write pushy e-mails demanding work. They apply for grants, they go to parties, they network. All this stuff is exhausting and a lot of people who do it are ghastly, but it should be more widely taught that life requires this sort of effort.