An anaesthetist, presumably.

Technobabble

Identity and Passport Service chief executive James Hall is quoted on the BBC today as saying that the addition of chip and pin to ID cards could "help protect internet shoppers".

How do we end up with a BBC so technically illiterate that they allow themselves to be used as a conduit for such crass, idiotic, laughable statements? Why, when this statement was made, didn't the journalist in question simply ask how, precisely, a chip and pin facility would affect internet shopping?

It fucks me off that technofear and technobabble are being used alongside fear of terrorism as weapons to push unneeded, unworkable policies through our democracy of the ignorant.

Too much

I have learned a lesson.

When things get too much for you and you find yourself despairing, make a list of all the problems, things that you need to do, things that you need to resolve and things that are worrying you. It will make for tough reading. Try to tackle just one of the things on the list - the easiest, or the least worrying is fine. Then in the coming days and weeks, refer back to the list to see if you still feel the same; and cross off the things that are no longer problems. Of course, you can add new things too.

Now here's the lesson: the end point is not to cross everything off the paper. The end point is getting to the point that you don't care what's on the paper any more.

:-)

Well well well

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That is all.