1519 Fateful day for Aztec empire as leader Montezuma welcomes Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to lake island capital city of Tenochititian, only to die by his hand later
10:10
The Architeuthis, or giant squid, is the world's largest invertebrate at 6-12m.
10:23
Another day, another computer crash and another broken heart. The tyranny of the press launch has fell upon us. Techies tell us we're responsible for stuff. Fine. There's only one thing missing. The layer between, the software that manages our responsibility.
10:37
Ramones on, delete this madness. They send emails with nothing specified in them. Why do we live? I can only say that I'm happy to be getting on with sorting my end out. They are crisis managing, with no crisis apparent, but nothing is getting done. Master Chef the Engineer is wandering down stairs throwing a spoke all the time. I'd like to tell him to prepend this to his missives: PR is none of his concern, strictly speaking, from the engineering perspective.
10:47
As the IRA rebels got older, they had to move to Semtex to save their backs from lifting fertiliser bags.
12:58
It's hard to be patient but we must hold firm. Don't lose the grip. Marketing is full of primadonnas, many of them in this very team. I'm bored with life, lonely, a little down overall, without really feeling down.
13:41
They're snogging and chortling on telly, on the sofas attached to their arse, on the vulgar combats played out in their eyes, numbly encountering a world they never knew. There's a membrane between the here and now and us. We are here trying to dismember reality and remake it into nice formal pieces that we can easily ingest. What if the whole of life was this deluge destined to wash you away?
15:14
Retitle my blog: Blue On Blue – life in the big red Banana company. It’s about having a hissy fit and kicking your feet beneath the table until you get some arbitrary demand allowed you by the adults. When will the proposition ever be brought the market? When we can stop arguing about things with each other. That’s what I mean, it’s like working with enemies. I see one's team in the canteen having dinner at a table, I’d sooner sit on my own or with non-team members. Anyway, we each of us had a good old moan about our colleagues. Overwhelmed by their indifference or mine to each other.
16:06
Well I tell ya, no email ever lost weight passing through this organization!
16:30
The point is, I hope everything works out well for everyone. Each to their own. What’s your overarching vision? It hardly matters, you must simply achieve what you can moment for moment.
20:40
Things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe.
- Herbert Asquith
22:41
I need a hero. Postmaster shot with a gun. Dead.
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| Conquistadors dispose of Montezuma's body |
