A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice

This is probably the finest thing I have seen for some time:

BlackBerry owners twice as intelligent as iPhone users

Recent studies have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that owners of BlackBerry mobile phones are at least twice as intelligent as owners of iPhones. Moreover, the BlackBerry phone is more often used for serious business use, rather than iPhone 'twiddlers' who have time to waste on tinkering with their toys.

(source: University of PerfectArction, 2008)

Crikey

Is it really that long since I wrote anything on this blog?

Must do better. I'll be back when I have some time and something interesting. It'll probably be about knitting, OK? yes - I thought you would like that.

Well. It was quite quite boring. And Ludlow lost 8 nil. I feel no need to ever repeat the experience.

Let's leave it there.

Football Crazy

I've always hated football. I grew up in a house where my mum supported Birmingham City and my brother Aston Villa so every Saturday in 'the season' (question - when is not 'the season?') they would argue about who was the best and my brother had a succession of ever more horrible sweaty nylon football shirts in claret and blue.

When I went to work in a public library, Saturday was our busiest day so the Saturday argument and the results were not welcome music when I returned from a hectic day of stamping records (it was a record library). And then of course on Saturday night and Sundays we had the ghastly matches played on the telly - it was hell to a person of my sensibilities.

So when i tell you I am going to spend the whole day at a football match tomorrow, you'll wonder why, won't you?

I know I'm wondering why.

Ludlow Town Legends v Manchester United Legends at Ludlow Football Club. To include buffet and dinner.

Why did I say yes?

I shall update you after the awful event.

Wheel 'em on

I've recently returned to using my trusty electronic steed the Dreadnaught. It's an amazing wheelchair that I bought when I could hardly walk at all and it only gets an outing every now and then cos it's been a bit unreliable. However by the simple expedient of buying some new batteries (cost of £125 each)it's got going again and on our recent visit to Centerparcs we had a fun time with me buzzing around in it while the others cycled everywhere.

Of course you feel slightly fraudulent because people see you in this giant contraption like nothing they've ever seen before and think you must be an utter basket case. Then when I jump out and walk round shops they think some miracle has taken place. But anyway I had forgotten how people stare and how over keen they are to help, one bloke almost flattening me with my own wheelchair when I get a bit stuck against a fence post. With no experience of driving the thing he cheerfully grabbed the joystick - I'd got out by this time - and of course it lurched towards me quicker than I could move out the way. But he wasn't daunted by this and had another go until Jack fortunately came back and rescued me before too much 'help' led to me losing a leg.

It does anyway mean that i can explore the countryside without pain so I took off up the dingle at the back of our house. Yes, you're quite right I WAS wearing my slippers. How chav is that?

Squid Who?

Anyway as I was saying. As the MD of a rich and successful internet company PerfectArc (or Perfect Arc as some would wrongly have it) I thought it was about time I mentioned that fact on this blog. We've gone a bit 2.0 for those of you who give a **** about stuff like that. Andy discovered Squidoo - http://www.squidoo.com - okay a few other people had discovered it before him. So we went a bit mad and signed up lots of useful looking URLS like http://www.squidoo.com/annawilde which means I have two blogs to keep up with now.

I don't know about you but I have this thing wrong with my head. I buy and read a business book, say, or a self help book. I read it avidly. I think 'there's some great tips in there'. I even make notes. And yes you guessed it, 5 minutes later I can't remember a single thing about it. Why is that? I guess my memory is like my last post about the cupboard clutter - full of stuff like birthdays and shopping list and must-pay-the-bills and so the new information falls out of my ears somehow. Maybe I should keep lists on Squidoo of books I've read and the three top things I learnt from them.

OK I'm bored now. Going to eat some cake.