Coterminous, stakeholder engagement

Some news out of England, I think our PC gets alittle out of hand at times.
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The body that represents the country's local authorities has told its members to stop using management buzzwords, saying they confuse people and prevent residents from understanding what local governments do.

The Local Government Association, whose members include hundreds of district, town and county councils in England and Wales, on Friday sent out a list of 100 "non-words" that it said officials should avoid if they want to be understood.

The list includes the popular but vague term "empowerment;" "coterminosity," a situation in which two organizations oversee the same geographical area; and "synergies," combinations in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Officials were told to ditch the term "revenue stream" for income, as well as the imprecise "sustainable communities." The association also said councils should stop referring to local residents as "customers" or "stakeholders."

The association's chairman, Simon Milton, said officials should not "hide behind impenetrable jargon and phrases."

"Why do we have to have 'coterminous, stakeholder engagement' when we could just 'talk to people' instead?" he said.

The association sent its letter after reports that one town council had told staff to use the term "thought showers" instead of "brainstorming."

Officials at Tunbridge Wells council in southern England felt brainstorming might offend people with epilepsy, a condition that involves periodic electrical storms inside the brain.

However, the National Society for Epilepsy said it had surveyed its members and they did not find the term offensive.

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Life is going well for me, business has slowed down some but its ok. I've typed out some poems I wrote a few weeks ago.

What I’ve Done

From the moment I rise and put my feet on the cold floor
The memories try to unhide from the closet in my mind
I can handle being beaten, laughed at and hated
But you gave the one thing I can’t handle: silence
Your silence fueled the pain of isolation from so many relationships
So to get even, I made sure you felt pain behind your façade of laughter
After I had time to understand what was all done.
God cleared the slate, but still I must face myself
I must let go of what people think of me.
Everyday to face myself, erase the past
Struggle to put to rest the regret.
I let this go tonight, I move on to become the better person I am without you.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll start again but for now this guilt trip ends.

Memories of Who You Are

I have these recurring dreams since I was young that I will die soon and I wonder who would care, who would be sad, when my time comes.
Will the wrongs done be more then the rights.
I can’t be the person so many people wanted me to be.
Will they remember the person I was or am?
I hope there will be memories people keep rather then quickly forget.
Separate what I’ve done to what I’ve lived for.
I’m not perfect but neither are you.
Until that dreams takes life, let the reality of today sink in.
Listen to each other before you’re left to regret what was last said or unsaid.
Live free in the present and let the past have no part of your future.

Friday Humor

A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike
English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la Casa.'
'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.'

A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?'

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two
Groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves

Whether computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each
Group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men's group decided that 'computer' should definitely be of
the
Feminine gender ('la computadora'), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;

2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is
incomprehensible to everyone else;

3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for
Possible later retrieval; and

4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself
Spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

(THIS GETS BETTER!)

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be

Masculine ('el computador'), because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;

2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;

3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time
They ARE the problem; and

4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a
Little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

The women won.

Bare Minerals, good stuff. I've had alot more compliments since then. I wrote a check and the girl was looking at my driver license which the photo is from this January. She said wow, you look so much younger now. I've been asked by people if I'm a teenager, I get 19-20 sometimes. For being 25 and hearing that, I think this bare minerals is going to be a keeper.

Other news, onsite computer repair has a dangerous side to it. A client that I've worked on his laptop before, has been calling me all week. He was like I want to see you. Well he asked for a hug and he then he started kissing me and all that. Gross, he kept saying I really like you and I was like I have to go now. This is like 3rd time I've gone somewhere and a guy asks to hug me and they end up going kissing me. Its really freaky. My roommates think I should carry maze. I've been asked repeatably by single, hairy, old guys to go out to dinner and a movie. People call me sometime and say my computer is fine but can I just see you. The guy today told me what alot of people tell, I have pretty eyes and a smile. Maybe I should use black eyeshadow and frown alot.

I'm still doing this weightloss thing, its hard to lose weight I've always dropped it faster then this time. No matter what I do I only lose alittle bit. I might go to the green hills Y again tonight and commit murder on some fat cells.

The Switch to Bare Minerals

After hearing alot from people that this stuff works. I gave up my Estée Lauder / Walmart Combo and went to Sephora in Green Hills and got me my start kit. It seems to make for a good complexion. One of my roommates uses this and gets alot of compliments. I can be such a Tom Boy though, what ever happen to the wake up and go to work, now you have to spend 15 mins after hair time, making sure your pores are hidden with 3 different layers.

Above is a photo of Alvin's sister Sabrina and Dave wedding. Tis the season for marriage. Two old friends of mine Ryan and Tommy are married now (not to each other for clarification) So 3 weddings right beside each other, makes me think about my future. I am actually quite happy were I am now, single and working and spoiling myself. I have social time with room mates and friends on weekends. I've seen too many hearts split apart over divorce that I would rather enjoy my youth alittle bit less tied down. I'm happy for my friends though, I've seen them go through many relationships and hope the best that maybe they really can stay together for life like marriage is intended.

In other news I burnt my hand 2 days ago with my chi flat iron, needless to say the burn has taught me that my invisible hand hair does not need to be straighten out.

This is a great spoof on the Mac/PC commercials from a "Christian" perspective

XP SP3 is Evil

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146059/users_report_more_trouble_with_windows_xp_sp3.html

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207600950

I'm not the only person who has had trouble with SP3. The main IT guy that I work for, installed it when it first came out and his laptop restarted endlessly due to a GDI error. I've installed it on my own personal pc just to have some programs such as outlook fail to start. I've uninstalled it on a few clients pcs and it oddly enough "fixed" the problem.

So avoid SP3 unless you are paying me and then install and call me when you need it fixed.

Also Windows Defender is crap, I have yet it see it ever detect anything and let alone remove it. I've repaired Vundo and smit fix on computer where Defender claims the machine was clean. I use Ccleaner to start off with a cleaner computer, then install and run Spybot Search and destroy, followed by Adware by lavasoft and that almost always fixes the problem.

$ Spent on dirt and rocks

When we first gazed at the moon through powerful telescopes, the moon appeared to be full of dirt and rocks. However, we were not convinced so we sent astronauts there. They brought back samples for scientists to analyze and it was confirmed that indeed, this was just dirt and rocks. However, we were not convinced so we went to the moon another dozen times or so just to really be sure it was real dirt and real rocks.

When we first gazed at Mars through powerful telescopes it appeared to be a mysterious planet. Our early flybys of this planet revealed a terrain full of dirt and rocks. However, we were not convinced so we sent Rover there. The little robotic vehicle traversed the topography sending back pictures and data and guess what? - more dirt and rocks. However, we were not convinced so we sent Phoenix there. It landed safely and started analyzing the soil and sending beautifully detailed images of a Martian landscape full of … dirt and rocks.

But wait, this is different. The Phoenix landed in the North Pole area in the hopes of discovering life. Its little sensors microscopically scrutinized the soil and made an amazing discovery. Mars is still full of dirt and rocks. But wait, this is different. The dirt has a pattern to it.