PushingJelly

Yes I know, I get a bit moany sometimes but there is so much to bitch about out there what with the artificially drummed up financial crisis (self fulfilling prophesy) and all the lay-offs etc, it is difficult to see the positive (or at least comment on them). 

So, on a positive note, I am currently really enjoying a secondment to the new video and audio studios we have built at work. I was given the opportunity by management to work there for a few months to help finish the project and learn what I could from the new Studio Manager, a very experienced chap from the UK TV industry.

It is a very new facility and we are all learning what and how to make, but we have done live bands, cookery, scantily clad models and celeb interviews. Not bad for a little studio. I guess it helps to have a few national newspapers upstairs!

If I can, I’ll post some pictures of the studios later.

Off to work now – wonder who we’ll have in today?

Microsoft has long known that education was the key to getting customers used to their products when young and as a result have locked in the educational establishments to Windows and other products all over the world by creating a pricing model (the first one is always free) that get’s MS in the door and by the time the faculty is trained and there are lessons planned around MS products, they then raise the prices and bingo gravy train.

In a different tack, MS are now looking to ‘help’ (at first) adult America with a new programme to (according to CNET) ‘Elevate America’ by “training” 2 million plus people how to use MS products.

This on the face of it is fine and good but we have to remember that Microsoft is a commercial organisation and there has to be a value proposition – which in this case is the indoctrination of potentially 2 million new customers while getting to look like the good guy.

Corporate PR genius really.

There are lies damn lies and there are statistics thrown about by religious organisations. My mistake for not reading below the surface a little.

The statistics the Telegraph were quoting in their article were provided by Theos, a so called ‘Think Tank’ (we tell you what to think or we send in the tanks) organisation – this is from their website:

Theos is a public theology think tank which exists to undertake research and provide commentary on social and political arrangements. We aim to impact opinion around issues of faith and belief in society. We were launched in November 2006 with the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. Our first report“Doing God”: A Future for Faith in the Public Square examined the reasons why faith will play an increasingly significant role in public life.

What they are then is a religious shill that does black-ops marketing on behalf of the Anglican and Catholic churches in the UK.

Strange for the Telegraph to blatantly put out this propaganda. There’s another story there I am sure.

Charles Darwin - Image Telegraph.co.uk

Apparently we are slipping back in time in the UK. According to the Telegraph half the British public believe that evolution and science can’t explain life the universe and everything better than “In the beginning of God’s creation of the heavens and the earth……” 

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the dark ages, the round Earthers are being stoned to death for heresy and the black death is wiping out large parts of Europe because they have sinned (obviously) and their prayers for deliverance are falling on deaf ears.

For more deluded bullsquit look here, here and to the root of it all the old testament here .

Someone find me a way off this rock.