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Last week was one of those when nothing much
happened. Nothing much happens quite often at this
time of year, a bit like Bintabaht on a wet Monday night.
There was of course a bit of world wide media rumpus
over a woman who got pregnant. And the first sign of
Christmas decorations in the shops over here.
(Fortunately you HuaHinians will have to wait until at
least the end of next month for your tinsel and baubles,
although there was a glorious time not so long ago when
the dreaded C word didn’t arrive in Hua Hin until the
beginning of December.)
We also had a bit of a stir when the owner of Hull City
FC, Dr Allam, declared that the club is up for sale.
Reported by some as having spat out his dummy, the
announcement came following the FA’s rejection of
Allams’ request for the clubs’ name to be changed back
in April.
At the time hard core supporters vehemently opposed
the idea. Now of course they are begging Allam not
to sell and praising him for the millions which he has
invested in their club. But there are always two sides
to a story, and there happens to be an ongoing feud
between Hull Citys’ owner, who is after all trying to
run a business, and the Hull equivalent of a Tessabahn
over development of the Stadium site, which cannot be
ignored as a major factor in Dr Allams’ decision.
Still, the resulting press conference served as a mild
diversion from the tedium of ripping my CD collection
to a memory stick. (Don’t ask. It just seemed like a good
idea at the time.)
As some readers will know I have an ongoing battle with
all things IT. It seems to develop at a much faster pace
than any normal persons brain cells. Still - on reflection
I probably cope with it quite well compared to many
others of a certain age. Having abandoned the land line
phone and mastered all that full wireless malarky, not
to mention having no problem at all with the laptop
mousepad, downloads, Googling, re-tuning the TV, and
of course online shopping. Even predictive text has
never been an issue.
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What does bug me - no pun intended - is how as
consumers we are tempted to upgrade our various
gadgets on an almost annual basis. And as queues for
the latest iPhones show, many people do.
Yes it is maybe handy to be able to carry your lifes’
essentials around with you at all times. The music
collection, photos, downloads and apps. To have
the means to Tweet, e mail, Google and text, take
photographs and listen to Kasabian while comparing
supermarket prices all with one small device, which can
even be used to speak to people as well.
But at risk of being labelled a dinosaur I’ll stick to the
trusty old Nokia, digital camera and Walkman thank you
very much. The thought of losing all that stuff in one
go is not a happy one. The cost of the device needed
to do it all on can be daunting. The very concept of
built in obsolecense goes against the grain. But most
importantly for us Silver Surfers, we struggle to see well
enough to drive the damn things.
And so to this weeks’ word. It was tempting to make it
‘saltire’ but by the time AWOL hits the sois that could
be a bit contentious. Instead we have ‘chiaroscuro’. An
overly tricky word to pronounce which simply describes
the effect produced by the treatment of light and shade
in drawings and paintings. As in ‘the chiaroscuro of
cobbled streets.’
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