Today I had a chance to ride the new Epping to Chatwood train line. This line is about 10Kms and has stops in North Ryde where I got on after a meeting there. The station is beautiful and big and clearly not crowded!
There were three flights of escalators to get to the train so the tunnel is pretty deep. I would say it is about 5 or 6 stories underground. The escalator has a special power saving mode so that when nobody is travelling on it, it slows right down. As soon as you step on it accelerates.
The sign posting and information available is great.
The trains are the new ones that suck too much electricity for other lines. They have new moving LED signs in each carriage that tell you the next stop name. Very comfortable and smooth transport.
I see that the DJIA has now plumetted below 7000. It will continue to decline until 3000 or lower before this depression gets to the bottom of the cycle. Its not time to buy yet unless you are buying gold. Producing gold and silver miners are the best bets right now if you have to buy shares.
The problem, (credit crises), reaction (depression headlines, dire predictions) have happened. We're all looking around for the solution and the elites of this world have it prepared and waiting for us, all we need do is ask them for it, and, in a year's time "we're" going to be begging them for it.
We're being softened up for it all across the news. The number of New World Order articles in the lamestream media has increased dramatically e.g., this one from Time magazine.
I watched KRUDD's much hyped chamber of commerce speech last week, during which the Faux News ticker stated an "Important Annoucement from Prime Minister Rudd" was flashed on the screen constantly. The important annoucement never came...but did it? The whole speech was about how the world is in crises (but I can still buy petrol and the supermarket shelves are full and everyone I know has a job) and how Australia NEEDS TO PITCH IN AND HELP the world through this crises and how we will have to sacrifice etc etc. So the "important annoucement" never came per se but he did tell us that on April 2nd the G20 meets to discuss all this.
Clearly we are being softened up for some major annoucements after the G20.
I have almost completed the scoreboard hood and here are the latest pictures. The final thing to do is to line the top with 90 degree angle aluminium to seal the top of from rain.
Facebook has recently changed their T’s and C’s to allow them to use your information – even if you delete it.Here’s an article with the details.
I am not on Facebook but I am on LinkedIn.I have a measly 20 contacts which rates me as very boring; however, the “network statistics page” shows the following incredible statistics:
(From this I guess we can assume that the familiar maxim that “we are all connected by six degrees of separation” is probably accurate.)
Now consider that I am two degrees of separation from 321,600 people – and this is only a professional/career social network - then you have some idea of the value that Facebook can glean from their information and indeed the reason they don’t want the value of their company to be written down if there is a sudden mass exodus from Facebook.
A congruent development is the availability of face scanning and detection technology in entry level digital cameras such as these.These new cameras are so clever you can take a photo, name the person(s) in the image and from then on the camera will automatically identify the same face in subsequent photos.
The face recognition technology will be in all digital cameras within the next few years.Combine this with Facebook et al and the ability for these cameras to automatically upload images pre-tagged with people’s names and you will see that in the future any photo that is taken of you will almost certainly identify you and has the strong likelihood of being pasted into a Facebook / MySpace / LinkedIn or other social networking site.And if you aren’t tagged then subsequent generations of these types of websites will!
Facebook is a truly amazing resource if exploited and you can certainly guarantee that they will exploit it to the absolute maximum (as this change in their T&C’s will secure).
The problem is our kids are taking photos of themselves in various compromising situations and then posting them on Facebook and the like for their mates to laugh and joke about. Unfortunately, they need to take a moment to consider the ramifications of their use of Facebook because in 5 years time, when their prospective employer has purchased “rights” to access Facebook’s database, they may find the interviewer knows a great deal more about them than they would like!I know through a friend that IBM HR checks all job applicants for Facebook and MySpace pages so it’s already happening.
Use these social networking sites with great care and always set your privacy settings to maximum.
