Posted: Tue 23 January, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts |
So the 2012 Olympics are going to be the greenest ever, are they? I don’t think so.
You see, when people start talking about “ever”, they’re wrong. After all, the original Olympic games were held in a stadium that wasn’t purpose built for them, thus not using shitloads of non-green cement, steel, concrete, and the like. The athletes didn’t travel in planes, buses, coaches and cars – they either came on foot, or on horseback.
The original games didn’t have a new set of stadia built every four years in some place or other, along with all the radical changes to infrastructure and environment. And they didn’t have millions of people watching worldwide on TV, thus also contributing to CO2 emissions etc. etc.
So, the greenest ever? I don’t think so, not at all.
Posted: Tue 23 January, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Sweary, Work-related |
No idea why, but I’m having a bit of a demotivated “can’t be arsed” week when it comes to ‘proper’ work.
Partly I suspect it’s because the work I’m doing is earth-shatteringly, brain-numbingly dull, and is only necessary in the first place because other people are utter fuckwits who don’t think things through in the first place.
But also it’s because the company we’ve been talking to (since February) about a Content Management System have finally fucked up enough for us to walk away from them. Personally I’d have done it three months ago, when they fucked up the first time, and made everyone involved (including themselves) look like cunts. They’ve managed the same thing on another couple of occasions since, and there’s been the debate about walking away, which has always resulted in “but the product they have is really good”.
Today they were supposed to come up here for a final meeting, discussing contract terms and the like. Only they’re not going to come, because (and I don’t quite get this one) the time taken wouldn’t be billable. So they’re going to lose £100,000+ of business because they can’t charge us for the time to come up to Cambridge and get the business.
Yes, they really are that fucking stupid. It’s really quite worrying. And I’m sure I’ll write more about it over the next couple of days, when I’ve got my thoughts about it into some semblance of order…