Rabbit Thought of the Day

Yippee, we are back and running, but I suppose all my emails are now in cyber space and it will take the server a little while to catch up.!

It’s three in the afternoon the email server is still not up and running, a lot of people have a had a sense of humour failure, it’s been about 6 hours since the server first went down and IT are not able to tell us when the problem will fixed.

One of the problems we have, that is the company’s systems are being monitored and run from India even though the servers are located in this building,  figure that one out if you can.

What’s even more astounding is that we are a building services company with the normal IT department and a Intelligent Building section (IBS) a fancy name for asset services and we can’t sort out our own problems.

Its so bloody frustrating, have spoken to a number of people of the phone and they have sent me documents but I am unable to receive them. Come back Royal Mail all is forgiven.

Jewels belonging to Christina Onassis - including a 38-carat diamond which sold for £3.5m - have sold for twice their estimated value in London.

Only the wealthiest individuals would have considered the lots on offer a bargain (the starting price for an art deco diamond necklace was just £150,000, for example).

But a buzz there certainly was, not least because going under the hammer today were spectacular diamonds and jewels once owned by the super-rich Christina Onassis, the troubled daughter of the Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis. The collection was inherited by the sole survivor of the Onassis dynasty, Christina's daughter Athina, who was just three years old when her mother died in 1988.

Most of the serious bidders were invisible, at the end of a telephone line, possibly relaying their offers from their third home in Monaco, or one of the yachts in the Med. But they could not see the jewels close up. We could. They dazzled from the other side of the room on the necks, wrists and fingers of beautiful young models, dressed in black low-cut cocktail dresses.

There was a big smile on the face of the model who got to wear the prize in the collection. The Christina Onassis Diamond is a pear-shaped flawless 38-carat diamond pendant necklace. Its estimated sale price was between £1.8m and £2.2m. It went to an anonymous telephone bidder for £3.625m.

E-bay this was not. If you fancied something a little cheaper, there was a bangle made of braided elephant hair (yes, elephant hair), inscribed with the initials of Christina Onassis and her husband - a snip at around £1,500.

Am at total loss now, the email server is still down, yet I am able to access the internet, not only that the email only seems to affect some of us. Other’s are still able to access their email accounts. Not being an It expert I don’t fully understand this. But I am sure some one does.

What I do find funny is that one of our superb admin girls is still able to send and receive mail, apparently she sent every one an email telling them that the email was not working. I know, I can’t understand that either. Oh well I still have a pen and paper, I’m putting it to good use and sending fax!

The email is still down, it’s amazing now how much we depend on it, and it wasn’t too long ago that we relied on the telephone and Royal Mail (god how did we survive).

But we still got every thing done; I wonder what we would do if we lost the ability to use computers or what would happen if there disappeared over night. The world would come to grinding halt, but there seem to manage in the third counties you don’t see the native Zulu warrior wandering around with his laptop or mobile phone do you.

Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin have tied the knot in a civil ceremony at the 300-year-old Villa Durazo in Santa Margherita in Italy. Guests have joined the newlyweds for a blessing service at a chapel within the grounds of a 14th century monastery, but the real fun starts tonight at the A-list reception – the likes of Ricky Hatton and Steven Gerrard will be entertained by Coleen’s favourite band, Westlife, and Wayne’s top rapper, P Diddy. Let’s just hope the new bride changes out of her £130,000 dress before she starts dancing on the tables! 

Tomorrow morning all the cars in the area will be on bricks and all the wheels will have been nicked. Anyway, I thought Wayne preferred the older lady.

Our email has gone down which as really buggered me up, as I really need to get some urgent emails sent out. Bloody typical.

How can we hope to defeat to terrorism when we have complete idiots working at the highest levels of power. A senior member of the Cabinet Office has been suspended after leaving top secret documents on a commuter train out of Waterloo.

The documents were handed to the BBC (and no doubt photocopied) and related to al-Qaeda and an assessment of Iraq’s security forces. We have in the last few years heard of classified documents being left in public places and even a laptop computer stolen from a car had the Iraq invasion plans on it.

But this must take the biscuit, just how stupid can a person be, the person responsible should not be suspended but dismissed immediately, if this happened during WW2 would have been shot. However, today he will no doubt be asked to resign and will probably receive a golden handshake and good pension (probably many hundreds of thousands of pounds).

He should be named and shamed!

The Government carried is through its reform on terrorist detention yesterday but only just, the vote to increase detention from 28 to 42 days was 315 to 306. The crucial votes came from the 9 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

There was uproar in the house when the results were announced, with MP’s from the opposition suggesting that the DUP vopt6es were bought. A suggestion denied both by the Government and the DUP, however, it is known that some type of deal was done.

The bill still has to be ratified by the House of Lords, and opponents of bill have stated that they are powerful enough the defeat Gordon Brown in a way he was defeated in the Commons.

Have just checked my emails, and it’s not looking good, it seems I have some urgent queries to sort out. It’s something I would not normally do, however the person who responsibility it is, is on holiday this week. So I have been nominated to look at them and sort them out.

They don’t look too bad I had a quick look at them yesterday, before I left for home and it will take so investigation work and writing a few emails, still I have plenty of time to do it (I hope).