Ok these are just examples but I think I basically have 5 levels of politeness in the workplace! Well all the levels are polite but level 1 is warm and fuzzy and level 5 is a bit scary – heres a totally fictional example of each level:

1. Perhaps you might like to consider security as it may bite you later if you don’t.
2.  Its pretty risky for you not to consider security are you sure you want to do that?
3.  You realise if you don’t consider security there may be serious cost and legal liabilities that you will be held personally accountable for.
4.  Not considering security is crazy and to not step back and do so is not only a sign of a complete lack of competency but you will be hanging yourself. please be aware I am obligated to escallate this though both your management and my own and I want you to send me written confirmation of your intention to disregard my advice and accept legal responsability for doing so.
5.  Listen, your being a complete idiot, sort this out or your probably going to be looking for a new job, if you can find one after the court case.

I read an interesting blog - here – and will summarize it quickly. it seems as though Facebook doesn’t display all invites and everything that is sent to you but tries to be intelligent about stuff that it shows in your news feed. This means, all manner of stuff that Facebook doesn’t think is interesting but may still be is hidden from you.

To quote the blog, you can view these messages as follows:

To find your hidden messages folder, sign in to your Facebook account and go to your main news feed page. On the left hand side of the page, click ‘Messages’, and then click ‘Other’ that appears underneath this link. Be prepared to be very annoyed.

Sassette Smurfling - for those who don't know !

I just realized when i posted the last blog how there are little bits of sexism that have pervaded our culture throughout the ages, for example – Col. Dearing in Buck Rogers, when you stop and think about it is a fairly sexist name. Buck is a very strong male name and Dearing is like “dear”. Its silly but it is all over the place

Look at some of the bond girls

• Honey Ryder
• Pussy Galore
• Mary Goodnight
• Wai Lin
• Octopussy

… and its not just Ian Fleming. The media is littered with these subtle digs at women. I found it quite amusing that if you google sexist names – google doesn’t even return a single result relating to sexism preferring instead to provide results for sexiest, the only two results there that actually were “sexist” were from people who couldn’t spell “sexiest”. I think its pretty amazing how far women’s rights have come in the last decade or so. I saw a video interview with Jannette Fielding who played an assistant in doctor who – she actually quit her acting career because of the way her character was portrayed and i can’t blame her. Doctor who just like the rest of the world has grown up a bit with stronger characters like Rose  but there is still a way to go.

Even the Smurfs only had 3 female Smurfs on the good side – (Smurfette, Sassette, Nanny). Its funny how the media reflects culture and how you can see a lot of how attitudes have changed by watching older programs.Look at married with children – and shows like 2 and a half men – they are really entertaining but look how they portray women – its fairly shocking. I can’t help but wonder how much the media is reflecting society – or whether its the other way round.

Buck Rogers - and Col. Dearing! They were cool when i was a lad!!

I have a spotify premium subscription that i probably don’t use nearly enough. Every now and then i will go spottily surfing though. i will pick a piece of music i like and then look though the album it was on or the artist and just jump from place to place. Today i ended up running through movie themes, and TV themes – hearing the theme to buck rogers was awesome.  Its a bit cheesy but i grew up with this stuff.

I also sometimes let it completely go and just choose a category and let it play in the background. I just heard the sorcerers apprentice- Some of that classical music can really only be appreciated with a little bit of volume!

Its a silly thing, but mobile me is closing soon which will take away the mobile me galleries – which means all my family pics and things like that will cease to exist. The trouble is there are too many options out there…. i have

• 500px – which really is only for really professional pics
• Flickr – which i use for some pics but not family ones
• Facebook – Which has privacy issues…

There just doesnt seem to be a perfect solution out there – please someone correct me if i am wrong. What i want to do is have multiple roles – i know FB and Flickr allow some basic control of who can see more, but i want more – to be able to create groups of users and access rights.

its the same with everything, for information management there are way too many options out there. i was quite happy the other day to discover you can set photoshop as the default photo editor for apperture. this is a bit deal to me, as i have many photos and didnt like the idea of using adobe bridge.

look at social networking – Google+, MySpace, Facebook its hard to know how to choose.

So i am genuinely interested – what does everyone use out there for managing pictures and why?