Yesterday I spent a very enjoyable day at the John Lewis distribution centre at Park Royal, with a great tour around their amazing warehouse. Think ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ but without chocolate 
John Lewis are, of course, a partnership (each employee is referred to as a ‘partner’ and get a share of the profits) which strikes me as a much better and fairer way of running a company that the usual style.
Anyway, this weekend would be a great way to relax if I didn’t already have so much homework. Cya…
Now this is good – I’ll certainly be seeing the Blogger web interface less often!
Speaking of blogs, I’ve been reading an awful lot of http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ recently. It’s the Internet Explorer team blog, which is fascinating to read, because if there is any component of Windows that’s crying out for a big feature update, it’s Internet Explorer. Want to know if tabbed browsing, full CSS support or any other goodies long seen in Firefox (among others) will make there way into the world’s most used browser? Read this.
Ummmm… What else? Well, school is back, along with homework (grr) and lots of cool people too (yay) I’ve already become part of a team that will produce an insert for a local newspaper, and with OFSTEAD (run and hide) coming, I might even get a chance to interview the inspectors. I want to call the article “Who watches the watchers?” but I know I’ll get over ruled
Once again I’ve found myself with 6 invites for Gmail. If you want one, ask.
(First come first served, if the situation arises)
Well finally, it’s back to school tomorrow. Which is not quite such a bad a thing as it seems, it’ll be nice to see everybody again!
I visited WHSmith as well, just in time to bag new pens, rulers etc etc etc (the kind of stuff that you lend to someone and mysteriously ‘goes missing’.) I shouldn’t really have been surprised that is was as busy as Christmas Eve in there, leaving things to the last minute is great fun.
It’s also stupidly hot today. I mean, come on, summer is over already!
Just installed the final version of MP10 and nothing major to report really. The only noticeable difference from version 9 is the interface, which is nice, if a bit ‘mac-ish’
I did like what happened when I clicked on ‘Online Stores.’ NO AVAILABLE ONLINE STORE FOR YOUR LOCATION’ blasts an unfriendly message from a clearly US-centric program. Ah well, you can’t win em all on release day – can you?
Oh, and Microsoft released a brand new visualisation (they spell it with a z, I don’t) to celebrate this joyous day. And it features clouds. Funny, cause ‘Windows’ and ‘Clouds’ seem so familiar…
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
