I’ve lived on Watermead now for about 18 months and I have never seen the lake so high before as it it now.
The water is almost above the lake wall and when it is windy it goes above it. The weather forecast for the next 10 days says either rain or showers so it could get even higher than it is now.
Should I be concerned? Is the Lake likely to flood?
I read today in the Mail on Sunday Newspaper of a man who has now got a criminal record for a piece of paper placed in the wrong recycling bag.
This poor man who was doing his bit for the environment voluntarily at that, has now had his reputation tarnished for life, had to appear 5 times before the Magistrates who had no proof that it was him that carried out this heinous crime yet still fined him £100 and made him pay £100 costs too.
Even if he did by accident place a piece of paper in the wrong bag the punishment in my opinion does not fit the crime and should have been thrown out of court.
It was not mandatory for him to recycle his waste and if he hadn’t ever done so he would probably have had a better defence.
We are encouraged to recycle as much as we can but is it worth the risk if this could be the consequence?
I recently bought a BenQ-Siemens EF81 in my quest to find the perfect mobile phone but unfortunately I couldn’t get used to the different menu arrangements after being used to using Motorola phones for some years now and I wasn’t happy with the camera arrangement where the viewfinder was the small screen on the front of the phone.
When I saw that Motorola had launched the KRZR K1 which added all the features I was missing from my trusty Motorola V3 I decided that it was a must have.
It arrived a few days ago and I have to say it is without a doubt a vast improvement of the Motorola V3 and has all the features I could possibly want and more. The new form factor is just perfect and has a very tactile feel to it. Talking on the telephone seems much more natural now with the smaller width of the phone.
Added features that I wanted are:
Better camera: 2MP digital camera with 8x digital zoom, and image editing.
Premium video capabilities: video capture and playback MPEG4 (15 fps CIF); record up to 25 minutes of video on embedded memory
MicroSD slot for optional upgradeable memory
EDGE for high speed data access (class 12)
Midi, MP3, AAC, AAC+ enhanced music player for listening to your favorite music on-the-go
Other great additions are:
Integrated Stereo Bluetooth wireless technology connectivity for hands-free convenience
Enhanced phonebook with new contact fields: URL, IM, Postal Address, Birthday, and other information
MotoSync – sync your contacts and calendar at the touch of a button
Screen3 technology for zero-click access to your favorite news, sports, and other premium content
I really think this mobile phone is as close to being perfect as it possibly could be.
FOr more information about this phne check out Motorola’s MOTOKRZR K1 page.
Royal Mail often come into criticism but I have to say I am impressed with my Postman.
I have a small office in Wing which isn’t occupied constantly throughout the day and the post normally arrives at around 8.00am. What I like about our Postman is that if he has an item of mail that needs to be signed for and no one is there when he arrives, instead of leaving a card telling us he had been and we need to make arrangements to have it redelivered or collect it he take the time to come back once he has finished his round at about 11.30am to see if someone is here.
Now that’s what I call good service. I know it isn’t down to Royal Mail and I am just lucky to have such a conscientious postman but I am nonetheless grateful.
If by some miracle my postman is reading this I’d just like to say “Thanks very much”.
It looks like Matt Cutts has been busy pressing his red button and demoting previously high ranking sites to 31st place in the results. That is the top of page 4.
These sites are no longer able to score higher than 31st place even for their own company name. Google strives to give relevant results but in this case they are manipulating them to an extent that it is laughable.
How can you say scoring someone at 31st place for their own company name is giving you the most relevant results for that search query. This is particularly a problem for many users who have Google as their home page and go to their favourite sites by entering the name into the Google search box.
They will now have to go through to the 4th page before they can find it and that is if they haven’t given up in the meantime. Is that a good user experience of Google?
No-one knows for sure what is causing this phenomenon (except Google of course but they are unlikely to say) and speculation is rife amongst the many forum posts from effected webmasters.
Further reading can be found at:
Threadwatch
Digitalpoint
Searchenginewatch
Webmasterworld
just to name a few.
So if you can’t find your favourite site on Google anymore try going straight to page 4 or the results and check out Number 31!