School Without Children - Bliss (and Twitter)

Today the UK economy was bowled a strike by most of the public sector furious about pension plans etc. This resulted in 70% of state-funded schools closing for the days. For those of us that did go back to work in a ghost town school it was a nice productive and relaxing day. We could all just get on with a backlog of work, in my case asset checking, and not having to be quiet or feel we need to be avoiding eggshells so much.

In fact we got so much done and it was such a nice day I implore people to stand up for their rights more and withdraw labor in this increasingly difficult financial world. Deals are done, the system can sometimes be beaten, but more importantly those of us left behind can actually get on and do stuff without interruptions. Put it this way, a normal working day for me has an XFM soundtrack but today could have quite easily ticked along to the magicians of prog-rock; Pink Floyd.

The other real twist of the week was that finally I've given in and set myself up a Twitter account. Why on Earth I did that I don't know but now I have all my various accounts linked up so I don't have to double up statuses or links is good. It means when I post something on Youtube it goes both to my Twitter and Facebook account or when I go live on BlogTV. As a result, I've had to add a follow me button as apparently that's the law. I did state at the beginning that if it didn't suck me in by the end of the week I would drop it but I'm not so sure that's going to happen.

The only thing I'm concerned with is keeping everything up to date. It's difficult enough summoning up the material to do one of these amazing blog posts every week let alone doing little 140 character updates. But I think that's the catch of Twitter, because it's so short you don't have to think about it. It's quick, simple and easy. Having said that there is nothing more irritating that writing something and finding you can't post because it's more than 140 characters. For those definitive up and coming rants, I'll be sticking to my Wednesday Blogspot.

After all, these are all thought's that have happened to cross my mind. That's the thing, this blog is exactly what it says on the tin and so is Twitter. So naturally I signed up to that service to get to know some new birds.