Code 10/2

Friday and I’m officially unemployed so went to the job centre today. It wasn’t a depressing a place as some job centres but all the same, its not a place in which you’d want to spend too much time. I don’t think they’ll have any part to play in finding me work (unless I want to learn to drive a fork lift) but they should pay my National Insurance and might even give us a bit of money. Interestingly, just round the corner from the job centre is a telecoms consultancy. What a strange thing to find in a little town like Chepstow.

My body clock is programmed to wake early. When I was in work I used to leave the house before 7 AM every week day and, I must admit, it is a welcome change not to have to get on the road at such an unpleasant hour. I would like to keep my body clock programming however and use the time to do things. Apart from the obvious, like job hunting, I have lots of business books I’d like to read. I’ve just skim read “The de Bono Code book” by Edward de Bono. In this book, de Bono proposes a new “add-on pack” to the language. If everyone on this planet thought like de Bono this idea would stand half a chance of catching on. But, given that they don’t I think that the idea has little merit. If anyone apart from de Bono had written this I’m sure it would have been rejected by every publishing house on earth. Maybe he was just floating an idea. I’ve just checked the book: although he proposes many different codes for labelling information he doesn’t have a code for information that is “idea floating”. I think that demonstrates that the complexity of life can’t be encoded in this way. By the way, in the book, de Bono says (although in not so many words) that anyone who thinks the book is rubbish has a rubbish intellect. Does that make me thick? Despite the fact that de Bono is a internationally renowned author and I’m an out of work blogger, I don’t think so. A nice try though, Mr. de Bono.