I think I did a prat fall out of bed this morning.  Ok so it didn’t help that between me dreaming of how Google Wave will change the world*** and my lovely 2.5 year old demanding ice cream at 3 in the morning, I did not get much sleep.

Have you ever wanted to eviscerate someone? Well I would like to rip the intestines out of an all round bastard. I wish with all the biohazard grade bile currently backed up in my body that I could tell you who he is. This evil mother…bitch decides to pay MM (to whom I outsourced the job) only a part of an invoice 5 MONTHS after she worked her ass off. His reason? He feels that the printing handling fee to which they verbally agreed is “ridiculous/exaggerated” and he doesn’t feel like approving it. I could go into how much work this…man…caused by only getting back to us at his leisure. Oh and they have posted us the checque for the ‘approved’ amount… a few days ago. $#%*&!!!!! This means he not only foresaw that we could do nothing but it is doubly insulting that he gets to say “the cheque is in the mail”….ooooh breathe Feylian breathe.

I need to stop thinking about this because I will do something career killingly stupid. What I resent most is that we, as said bastard hammered home, have no power to really do anything about it. A war over a R5k invoice is stupid and he has a lot more resources than we do. He is a crooked nuclear waste carrying tank and we are 2 guerilla fighters armed with ancient Mauser’s and a handful of bullets. Oh for a little justice. This is the kind of thing that makes me really hate men of a certain age and type****

Gahhhh…anyway back to the Google Wave thing. If you have not yet played with this please do so now. It will change the way we communicate so radically it is breathtaking to think about. It is still, as Boaz says, a bit chaotic and buggy but the potential is staggering.  I woke up at 4 this morning knowing that it will almost completely replace forums. And that’s without the collaborative bells and whistles. What I want is for my company to…ahem…ride the wave and write a plugin. We have the skills but guess what? Yes, that’s it. We don’t have enough programmers. SAP and Salesforce can afford to throw a few grand at innovation whereas we could maybe do so a bit later…so unbelievably frustrating. By the time we can afford to play with this new tech it will be too late.

The more time I spend submersed in research on new tech and SEO/Social marketing the more I know that it is my path and passion. I just wish I could know MORE. There is so much to learn and it is so bloody awesome. Quite literally bloody as my no longer elastic memory and reasoning attempts to assimilate vast amounts of information and this leads to blood dripping out of my ears. It also causes my team inclination to sink to previously unplumbed depths. Or perhaps I just need that holiday more than I thought. I think it might be a good idea for me to work from home tomorrow. I’ve already growled at El and I love her…

1. Word of the day: disembowel (The Sage: 1. remove the entrails of) I like that. The old Roman in me wants to then use a stick for a spot of divination.

2. Insight of the day: Being angry is really bad for you and wonderful for your dentist.

3. State of the pool: hissing, spitting hot but contained acid.

4. Joys of the day: 1. going home, 2. wine, 3. speaking to no one, 4. Reading Anathem (it is a really big book ok) in a womb like bath.

5. Awesomest lines: From an Ars Technica article on Google Wave.

“If I had to describe, the best I could do is this: Wave is a mash-up of email, IM, IRC, online forums, and wikis, all rolled into an experience that sort of resembles (to me, at least) a MOO.”

6. Scripture lines: Ezekiel 25:17 (King James Version)

¹⁷And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

*The kind of intimate that a 90′s R&B singer would just have to compose a song that would contain words like “hot”, “grind” and “my baby”. And the video would feature LL Cool J licking a lollipop and the required tight cut off jeans and I’m-a-lumberjack**shirt. Wait, there should be some whipping too. And a fine sprinkling of calcium dust on everything.

***Think a tsunami of 2012 proportions.

****50ish, married on paper but definitely not in spirit, too many business dinners portly and just short enough to qualify for Napoleon syndrome but not so short that he would fail at business. The kind of guy who thinks it his right to paw his secretary. I’ve known, and been pawed by, enough of these to qualify this grand generalisation.

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I would not mind becoming a gargoyle* minus the Sumerian memes connection. I would love having my eyeballs wired permanently into the web. Sleep shcmeep.

I’ve been doing a lot of research both for my company and for clients and when you are so deeply immersed in words like that of Mark Suster (I am not worthy, I am not worthy) and about 400 other blogs you tend to come up for air/actual face to face contact only occasionally.

Twitter is amazing. I think I love it like a 16 year old chubby library prefect loves the rockstar beautiful head boy. /Sigh pine ftw.

I wish that I could explain to you how wonderful it is to be a virtual Michelangelo touch away from the minds who not only create my (and your) world but who constantly re-invent and better it. How can anyone not want to live this? AND get paid to do so**.

I realised yesterday that the more time I spend online the less I want to spend in social butterfly mode. Here, I am a few clicks away from soaking in pure thought. Granted some of it is drivel and there are some scary bits but mostly it is the best of this world. Why wrangle with non verbal cues when you have @replies and RT’s?

1. Word of the day: taciturn – just for you Gabor :) – (The Sage: 1. habitually reserved and uncommunicative)

2. Insight of the day: I would not mind working for Flight Centre. YAY for them showing the rest of SA where companies should be heading.

3. State of the pool: Sparkly blue conducting fluid

4. Joys of the day: 1. Reading, 2. biting the ends of a Chomp and then drinking coffee through it. 3. Planning Sunday lunch with MM.

5. Awesomest lines: Don’t Go Far Off, Not Even For A Day by Pablo Neruda

Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because –
because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

because in that moment you’ll have gone so far
I’ll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying

6. Scripture line: John 15:16

“You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”

*Excellent review of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson here. Ugly page but very well written.

** I am all joyously exposed nerves and beating heart that I am being paid rather a lot of money to do what I love.

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