A few posts ago I posted some pictures of The "Vasa" a big Swedish war ship of the Galleon variety the sunk on its maiden voyage due to it being too full of guns and not full enough of ballast.

Reading up on it today as I lay awake at work, I found that they actually had checked it for stability in the harbour just after it was launched.

How? by the traditional method of getting 30 sailors to run, at the same time, from one side of the deck to the other and see how long it took for things to get wobbly. The sailors could only run across the deck three times (!!!) before the test had to be stopped.

The guy running the test reported to the dockyard manager that the ship was a death trap and due to the fact that the guy who designed it was a "master shipbuilder" (AHEM!) he said "I'm sure he knows what he is doing"

Yeah right.

Bloody officials. Know bugger all most of the time.

Yes here I am, using the old gasping slow pc at the house as I had to leave the laptop that Jacobite lent me with S&F as their PC is still a bit dead.

Couldn't leave the poor souls without intenet access could I?

So here I am on the old wreck of a hp pavilion (hence it's new name in the title of this post) but I have managed to instal Firefox so it is going a little bit better than it used to.

Still as sluggish as a slug infested thing though.

I bet your all so glad I share these thrilling titbits from my life with you.

Whaddaya mean "NO!"

Pah!

I will go away then and think of something more interesting to share with you.

I could be gone some time........

They are just like this in London.

Sitting at my desk and drinking coffee out of my new "Moose Warning sign" mug, thinking about doing some work.

There are a couple of files to finish off, some emails to look at but on the whole, nothing much. And my line manager is not in yet.

Do you know, you can still smoke in Swedish airports? I was amazed as well. They have very efficient smoking areas where you sit at a table and the smoke is swirled away up into a fan and no one is bothered by it. I think that is a much more sensible way of doing things rahter than banning it totally. Made the entire airport experience much more calm.

So.

Anyway.

Must go do stuff I suppose.