The normally busy Tuesday morning terminal at London City Airport looking distinctly quiet and lonely, so far most flights are looking cancelled or seriously delayed, this might be one of those “interesting days” that people look forward to.
So in the last week we have had the announcement from both HMV and Blockbuster UK that they are entering administration and so cannot continue to trade as they used to, at the very least.
I suspect it’s not very surprising that both companies primarily dealt with “media” of one form or the other that, with the increasing availability of bandwidth to end users, are easily converted to digital forms and so the intrinsic costs of bricks and motar stores become a serious overhead.
It’s now been a month or so since my little brother Glyn passed away and I’ve noticed that after the initial shock of knowing that he is gone I’m still having periods of melancholy, sadness and dearly wishing and hoping that he was still here.
This isn’t the five stages of grief as defined by Kübler-Ross, that is aimed at the patient themselves not the family although you can see the use of the framework but something altogether subtler and harder to describe.
Well today I made the decision to permanently delete my Facebook account, mostly because I just don’t trust it. Or them either, strangely liberating either way, Google plus works well for me so far.
Suspect Twitter might be the next social site to be pruned.
To save having to understand how the underlying db schema works: SQL Queries for JIRA