Ahh, the around forty-somethings are reminiscing today about the moon landing in 1969.
For our generation, this was a huge thing. I can't remember another occasion during my childhood on which we were allowed out of bed in the middle of the night to watch TV. I remember it vividly because my dad impressed upon us that this was something that would change the world. And in many ways, I suppose it did: all the technological advances it took to put a man on the moon, have helped shape our society in so many ways (the onboard guidance computer that got him there had 74 kilobytes of memory that had been hard-wired, and all of 4 Kb of something that was sort of like RAM - the computer I'm using has a wee bit more than that). I'm only disappointed that in forty years human beings haven't travelled any further in space. We had hopes and dreams that by now we'd all be taking cruises around the solar system. Technology has changed so much, but it seems there might be a limit to our human ingenuity and resources that might make it very difficult for us to ever venture very far beyond our own own planet. That makes me a little sad, but it also reminds me of the limitations we face, and maybe that's a God thing?
GV Boy is over the moon, as he got a job today working in the government's swine flu call-centre. It's obviously a temporary post, and it all seems to be something of a rushed job, both for the government and for him. The job was advertised on Friday, we saw it on a website on Saturday and sent in his CV, he got a call at 1pm today to go to the recruitment agency and he begins work on Thursday. It's the first job he's applied for, and he got it. Result! I think he'll do it well. I am now calling him our "Swine Flu Guru".
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