Brewsterware

Well, after two turbulant flights I am finally back in the UK – it’s good to be back 🙂 Not just to see Levinia, but also to get away from the terrible lift type music that was all over the hotel that I stayed in.

My main host, Mike, suggested changing the screen refresh rate on my second monitor as this has been refusing to display anything for the last two months. However, when I got home to try this out it is miraculasly displaying my extended desktop 🙂

There is still a problem though 🙁 This second screen is only displaying a portion of the extended desktop…

Had a blast this evening in downtown Greenville with some of the guys from MIS, even though Chris Elrod tried to through pizza over me twice! The place we went to even had cider which is pretty rare in the US.

I’ve uploaded a few more photos to my Greenville album as well.

Well, I’m still in Greenvile – Work asked me to stay another week to help upgrade the EDI software that we use, so how could I refuse 🙂

I was hoping to upload some of the photos that I had taken so far this evening, but I stupidly forgot the USB cable for the phone I have which is why the all new Greenville album is pretty bare at the moment. I’ll try and upload some more tomorrow.

I’m off for dinner…..

On 1 April 1976, Patrick Moore announced that a ‘unique astronomical event’ was going to occur at 9.47 am. As Pluto passed behind Jupiter a ‘gravitational alignment’ would reduce the Earth’s gravity for a few moments. Anyone who jumped into the air at 9.47 would experience a strange floating sensation.

Hundreds of people did experience the sensation, or at least thought they did. The BBC was flooded with calls from people claiming to have floated. One woman said that she and 11 friends had been wafted from their chairs and orbited around the woman.

As you may have guessed from the date at the beginning this was a wonderful April Fool trick.

What it does demonstrate however is the power of suggestion and expectation and also the influential power of people in authority.

Here are some more fun april fools jokes (some of which caught me out):

ShoeMoney station shuts down
Matt Cutts gets hacked
Mozilla Foundation Sues Microsoft Over Tabbed Browsing

The entry is written courtersy of the Marriott hotel in Greenville, South Carolina. I’ve now been here since last Saturday working on upgrading to the lastest version of the Gentran Integration Suite from Sterling Commerce for ScanSource. Unfortunately I wasnt able to get a trip at the same time as Simon, but its been pretty good meeting colleagues that I have been working with for two years.

The last time I visited the USA was in 2000, where amongst other activities I managed to see The Rippingtons. Nothing quite as exciting this time though

The weather this week has been very good – I’ve even started to tan a bit 🙂 I’ve got a few photos to show off as well, and will upload these as soon I get back.