Often when I have change in my pocket I just throw it in a tray on my desk until it builds up before giving the kids the coppers and using the rest for those ever so "cheap" tolls and parking spaces.
The thing is as I was sorting through the coins I felt a little bit dirty
I know it's a little strange to make comparisons but I found myself like a tyrant or a dictator sorting through his people.
"All the silvers and gold's separated out from the coppers"
Those of value and those of little value to the tray. Those Coppers just taking up space, over populating the tray and suffocating the gold's.
The coppers now segregated into a jar downstairs, where they stay amongst their own.
The Gold's and the silvers are allowed to mingle freely.
The exception of course being the 5 pence's.
These are allowed to live in relative harmony with the others unless their numbers grow too large. Then a cull is required which often leaves only a few remaining.
A few end up with the coppers who are brand new and shiny, the rest are sent away in batches, small and unloved in the end.
There are also other area's around the house where small change tray communities grow. Often these communities are kept segregated or robbed overnight to make another community bigger.
One underground community, the "Sofa change bunch" are completely different from the rest. They live without class issues. Only the bravest and luckiest of change ever make it to the sofa, let alone enter the secret entrance to the underground cave. There, coppers and silvers and gold's live in harmony in the fluff fields and lost sock island. Occasional raids by young hands sees only a loss of small numbers which are soon replaced by the man falling asleep on the sofa when returning from the pub.
The coppers in their isolation stay until they reach vast numbers. Then they disappear suddenly, their home briefly void of any tenants.
The Silvers come and go but have a longer life than any of the other change tray dwellers.
The gold ones are often brief visitors, stopping only for a moment until they are called into action once more.
Look after the pennies someone cried, and no one listened……..
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The Big Wide Digital World part 2
The thing is this digital world isn't confined to the same restrictions that the planet we live on is. Everyday it grows and gets stronger fuelled by the millions upon millions of mouse clicks and data streams. It has no atmosphere in the real sense, doesn't need oxygen to live. It can work 365 days a year and double up if you need it to and you can reach anyone nearly anywhere from your own chair. That's more power than a president or a country leader would have had 30 or 40 years ago.
Technology on a personal level is easy to manage and easy to replace..
The strength of your network, the power of your network - It's not though we are just a part of it, some get past the single cell stage and evolve. Some, like google become a heartbeat, holding it all together for the mere mortals. Giving them an entry point to the asylum that is the social age.
(Google probably has taught the world more than most schools these days - how many times have you googled something just to find out an answer or research? - we are googlebots)
For a mere few quid a month I'm connected to the world. An evolution in a lifetime - from a single cell to something which starts to grow with others around them. As soon as one network grows another retracts. Facebook has changed the way people use the web. Whatever came first or whatever comes next its the first place I ever knew my gran had signed up to. Then came a few heated wall posts between friends, lovers, ex lovers and along came all the silly apps. Now its evolving into different things.
You can almost use it in an entirely different way to others, even if its just playing poker.
So that's what is sitting in-front of us - and where will it go? The countries are in place, most of the lands are claimed and now we have to fit in with the system and the lands that are presented before us. There will be new lands and new discoveries but who will finish off the western frontier?
If you ever have an idea try this - google something around it and see what already exists - you I think may be surprised ...
Technology on a personal level is easy to manage and easy to replace..
The strength of your network, the power of your network - It's not though we are just a part of it, some get past the single cell stage and evolve. Some, like google become a heartbeat, holding it all together for the mere mortals. Giving them an entry point to the asylum that is the social age.
(Google probably has taught the world more than most schools these days - how many times have you googled something just to find out an answer or research? - we are googlebots)
For a mere few quid a month I'm connected to the world. An evolution in a lifetime - from a single cell to something which starts to grow with others around them. As soon as one network grows another retracts. Facebook has changed the way people use the web. Whatever came first or whatever comes next its the first place I ever knew my gran had signed up to. Then came a few heated wall posts between friends, lovers, ex lovers and along came all the silly apps. Now its evolving into different things.
You can almost use it in an entirely different way to others, even if its just playing poker.
So that's what is sitting in-front of us - and where will it go? The countries are in place, most of the lands are claimed and now we have to fit in with the system and the lands that are presented before us. There will be new lands and new discoveries but who will finish off the western frontier?
If you ever have an idea try this - google something around it and see what already exists - you I think may be surprised ...
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
The Big wide Digital world, and it's all yours.....
Just think for a second about this…….
Imagine that you could, with a computer and access to the internet publish your vision of a better world to all those who would care to listen. If you could stumble upon a rich source of content and support. A place where the space rubbish never clutters and megabits make musical melodies as they deliver your message to the masses.
We don't mean adverts, not websites with company information and clever Java monsters popping up and blasting us with a HD3D view of the world nor do we need the 4 minutes between your favourite soaps to "get it out there". In fact, buses are of more use to us when it comes to the task.
But fire up that laptop and you my pretty are on the way to stardom.
It's like X factor without the judges, Strictly come dancing without the scores. Imagine a funny version of Animals do the funniest things, or someone not dying at Christmas in Eastenders.
It is the grail my sweets.
From now on your not just connected. You are super connected - look around you, look, look there out the window, thousands of them await you, millions of them want you.
The possibilities that exist out in this new digital world are there, some will see things that others never will. Roads and streets and places are created every day in the digital world. It has no walls and no restrictions - you can write a blog just as easily as joining a swinging site. You can sign up for a life changing experience or order as much beef jerky as your jaw can chew. You can invite people into your living room, yet they never have to leave theirs.
We all write blogs for various reasons. To say we shoot from the hip is a fair assessment but then we'd have to already have the gun upon our persons if that was the case. Just today for instance I've just read a recipe for an awesome curry from some bloke somewhere who said I should have a look. I spend fair amount of time online, researching so its glad to have something ready at my fingertips, but I wonder do we then limit creativity? If everything is already there……
IT's up to you , to choose your path. Next time I'll tell you where I think you should start………
Actually of course I won't because I don't know your path, then that's the beauty of the digital age.
Imagine that you could, with a computer and access to the internet publish your vision of a better world to all those who would care to listen. If you could stumble upon a rich source of content and support. A place where the space rubbish never clutters and megabits make musical melodies as they deliver your message to the masses.
We don't mean adverts, not websites with company information and clever Java monsters popping up and blasting us with a HD3D view of the world nor do we need the 4 minutes between your favourite soaps to "get it out there". In fact, buses are of more use to us when it comes to the task.
But fire up that laptop and you my pretty are on the way to stardom.
It's like X factor without the judges, Strictly come dancing without the scores. Imagine a funny version of Animals do the funniest things, or someone not dying at Christmas in Eastenders.
It is the grail my sweets.
From now on your not just connected. You are super connected - look around you, look, look there out the window, thousands of them await you, millions of them want you.
The possibilities that exist out in this new digital world are there, some will see things that others never will. Roads and streets and places are created every day in the digital world. It has no walls and no restrictions - you can write a blog just as easily as joining a swinging site. You can sign up for a life changing experience or order as much beef jerky as your jaw can chew. You can invite people into your living room, yet they never have to leave theirs.
We all write blogs for various reasons. To say we shoot from the hip is a fair assessment but then we'd have to already have the gun upon our persons if that was the case. Just today for instance I've just read a recipe for an awesome curry from some bloke somewhere who said I should have a look. I spend fair amount of time online, researching so its glad to have something ready at my fingertips, but I wonder do we then limit creativity? If everything is already there……
IT's up to you , to choose your path. Next time I'll tell you where I think you should start………
Actually of course I won't because I don't know your path, then that's the beauty of the digital age.
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