a late start to the day

been a bit pre-occupied here, transition and all. But I did have some thoughts on the train yesterday or was it today? Not to sure about when it was?

I was considering in the context of best practices and how many of the best practices we assume to be absolute are not fictitious manifestations created by product vendors. At first thought this really does relate tremendously to the IT environment where the best way to do something, an industry best case scenario the following holds ... etc etc.  I was thinking mainly in terms of BI and databases in the first instance, but after wondering about it for a little while I realised that this could be found in almost any industry or technology or skill set. Granted, often we do rely on technology and then drive things towards a best fit in terms of the available technology. Have we had the chance to stand back and see if there is a better way of actually doing things.

We are now hurtling down the route of tablets and smart phones and everything is being forced into this form factor even though this may not be the appropriate form factor for doing our work in let alone living our lives entangled between mobility and social media. It is entirely possible that this may not be the most appropriate or applicable route to live our life or even do our business through.  But that might just be speculation on my part, all hail Steve, no not Steve Erwin.

On a more somber note, it is raining and raining. yes it looks a little like the piano now in Wellington. No not really, but I do suppose that it is possible to see things in a very bad light if you saw the weather here on a bad week. But like all things the bad weather passes here. All that can be said about Wellington weather is that, yes we have weather and lots of it and it will change and there is a good chance that it may not be exactly what the weatherman said it would be ..:/  strangely we are moving rapidly towards the 2 year mark in our stay in new Zealand. To recap what has changed, everything ;)

Change is good, bad and every other possible emotion all wrapped into one. We sometimes don't always think things through enough, says he who micro~thinks things at times. When we are under pressure we often think we need to make a change and slowly or rapidly hurl ourselves into the change, often glorifying what we expect out of the change. Things are often nowhere near what we expect, both in a good and bad way. I suppose we have to experience these things first hand to be able to realise this, yet would not be able to realise this without going through it. the end point being that we are theoretically better of in the end. All I can say is that often through change we will highlight things we never thought we would, in terms of features and facts and feelings we never expected ... starting to ramble on a bit here, am going to have to cut this short and get back to the task at hand.