Modern Expiry

I'm going from aqueducts that last thousands of years to servers that only last three or four years.  Even only 20 yar ago if you bought a server it would still be going 20 yar later.  We installed a server made in 2009 upgraded it to SBS2011 and thought we have a good run for at least 10 years. Not so it seems. Our server is being rebooted every Sunday to get it through the week.  Also the pressure is on to move from owning your own machine to renting the services you need via the cloud. There are no more SBS servers for small business! If you want a server then join the big boys and get an entry level Foundation server for around 10 Grand.   The Computer Nerds (Am I one of those?) are pushing you onto Office365 so for the bells and whistles at $25 per head per month means we are up for $3000 per year which is more than the cost of our server five yar ago. We are going to take the first step and install a NAS device which means at least our data will not be in the cloud.

Stone Circles

I am always attracted by the really old stuff.  Above San Sebastian in the hills are a series of stone circles. These were placed by the megaliths who no one seems to remember around here. I have seen this sort of thing elsewhere and it seems to me that once a good idea gets out there then you can't stop it. These circles are like the town hall, good for meetings, Druid Knees up, beheadings etc.  I think it all started with a fire place. One day someone thought lets expand the ring of stones around this fire so we can actually stand inside. The rest is history. Stone circles spread all over Europe. 

Simon Says

You Tube really means you can have your own TV show.  But having the means and actually doing it is the difference. There is that in between category where you turn on your TV and hunt through the community type channels to find some amateur funnies.  Simon Taylor has found himself on the Bowen show.  I recall Mike Myers and his cohorts were doing pranks on TV chat shows before "The spy who shagged me" graced the screens. Same thing with Jim Carrey who was paid to pull faces on TV before he pulled them during films.  But its the films that delivered the pay day even though I don't particularly like those films. Maybe Simon Taylor will work better in his films when the time comes. Bowen lane runs through the centre of RMIT. I spent many a time in Bowen lane during the student days. Didn't think it would show up on TV.