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Praticalities aside, the idea of having my own bunker has fasinated me.

If Britain had been attacked by a nuclear bomb during the Cold War, its government would have survived by retreating to a massive, 35-acre complex buried beneath the county of Wiltshire. I call it a bunker in the headline, but it was more like a small town—large rooms linked by roads, built on the site of an abandoned quarry. Known as Burlington, it could house 4000 people and feed them all for 3 months. It was also home a broadcasting studio and hospital.

Considering the size and space, it may make for an interesting site, suggetions:

1) Film Studio: Problems: Access and movement of materials into the site

2) Massive Server Farm: Cooling and Elextricity – Big Plus – Very secure.

3) Umbrella Research base – Possibility of creating the T-Virus… a few of you might get where that was going.

the Namibian: Metal ball from space falls in Omusati Region.

Space Junk? Really, someone has got to have lost this thing.

No more than 25 percent of economic activity is truly global, yet visions of a borderless planet entrance many senior executives.

They forget that Santa was there first, granted he operates globally for only 1 day a year, while the rest of the time he is preparing his annual event! Christmas day, his is the only business!

Merry Christmas one and all!

Oh how corporate polices make me laugh! Dilbert so often hits the nail right on the head.

This headline grabbed my attention! Yes. The disabled are failing to find work, along with 10% of the rest of the population. I’d have thought it to be a little obvious, that statistically it would be like that.

Can you blame employers either, given the choice in the labour market, would you employee the easiest people to manage? I think a little more thought and priority or reward should be given to businesses that take on the more complex employees. After all we encourage employers to take on long term unemployed, or young apprentices.

I may not be able to offer incentives or fleshed out ideas, but there does appear to be a gap that needs to be addressed in a comparable why to the rest of unemployment.

If you’re interested in reading more the CMI have a little article, but I’m afraid it doesn’t link back to anything more useful that I could find.

http://www.managers.org.uk/news/disabled-people-failing-find-employment

http://www.inc.com/ilya-pozin/7-things-highly-productive-people-do.html

I can thankfully say, that of the I do at least 1 of these naturally, although with the issue of a shinny new Crackberry from work, I do still get email notifications that after 2 weeks I’ve learnt to ignore. I’ve always found email to be a distraction and the only people who reply and react to it straight away are too busy to really commit and deliver on the tasks (not always true but a general observation).

1. Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks
2. Stop multi-tasking
3. Be militant about eliminating distractions
4. Schedule your email
5. Use the phone
6. Work on your own agenda
7. Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals

After reading this article, things I’m going to change:

a) Breakdown tasks into bite size deliverable tasks.

b) after each task take a break, breath of fresh air, then hammer on with the next task.

c) focus on goals, by explaining to people, I’ll deal with there distractions after this task. –> Well that will be the most difficult, lets face, if an issue arises you need to be able to address it straight away.

In regards to (c), my previous priorities were always guided by the number of users effected by the problem, the higher the number, the more important it would appear on my list.

I’m going to have to come back and review how well it all works, so news, so updates in a month or so. Let me know your thoughts, or if any other changes are worthy of trying.

I’m going to make a little more effort to attempt to post an article at least every week! I’ve got rather lax over the last few months, and with the change in job, I believe its about time for a few other changes as well.

I’d certainly like some encouragement if anyone has topic’s or issues they’d like me to cover!