According to this dude, I shouldn't blog that often anyway. I feel better now.
Today was our Frontline Workers Forum. We had workshops and buffet, all the usual stuff, with Supporting People kingpins in attendance, who managed to put across their healthy disregard for certain inaccurate stats, though they repeated their commitment to ending street homelessness in Cardiff, which is about as realistic as the 'Stop Child Abuse, Full Stop' NSPCC campaigns - noble aspirations all but people should remember the point first made by King Canute. People choose street homelessness, you'll never make everyone accept social housing, even if there were ever to be enough to go round. To kick off proceeding we watched a vox pop video commissioned to interview street homeless and one of the main speakers, from whom many attendees drew points of conversation, bemoaned the lack of actual provision in the sector in the face of much good advice - you get lots of words of help but less action, if you are homeless. Perhaps so, but this client in particular has more cash in his bank account then our chief exec.
Which just goes to show... service user involvement and representation might be essential, which I agree it is, but a good number of people will tend to pick and choose what truth they give the camera lens, and many of those who would come forward for an interview in such circumstances have an agenda of their own. We are in the business of supporting people, not programmable honesty and gratitude-bots, and people aren't to be simply believed, whoever they are. Not when there's millions out of the public purse at stake.
Finally, if rumours of Broadcom Wifi chipset support as standard in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon are not greatly exaggerated, I'll be making one final pass at the Death Star Trench of Linux usage. I far that by the time Ubuntu fully catches up with the hardware in my desktop PC the processor and ram therein won't be able to cope, though hopefully for an iteration or two yet it will be less hungry than XP on that machine. Who knows? If I could get Amarok on WinXP yet I wouldn't even care. Kubuntu Gutsy is out before that, though, and I've never been patient with technology.
Today was our Frontline Workers Forum. We had workshops and buffet, all the usual stuff, with Supporting People kingpins in attendance, who managed to put across their healthy disregard for certain inaccurate stats, though they repeated their commitment to ending street homelessness in Cardiff, which is about as realistic as the 'Stop Child Abuse, Full Stop' NSPCC campaigns - noble aspirations all but people should remember the point first made by King Canute. People choose street homelessness, you'll never make everyone accept social housing, even if there were ever to be enough to go round. To kick off proceeding we watched a vox pop video commissioned to interview street homeless and one of the main speakers, from whom many attendees drew points of conversation, bemoaned the lack of actual provision in the sector in the face of much good advice - you get lots of words of help but less action, if you are homeless. Perhaps so, but this client in particular has more cash in his bank account then our chief exec.
Which just goes to show... service user involvement and representation might be essential, which I agree it is, but a good number of people will tend to pick and choose what truth they give the camera lens, and many of those who would come forward for an interview in such circumstances have an agenda of their own. We are in the business of supporting people, not programmable honesty and gratitude-bots, and people aren't to be simply believed, whoever they are. Not when there's millions out of the public purse at stake.
Finally, if rumours of Broadcom Wifi chipset support as standard in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon are not greatly exaggerated, I'll be making one final pass at the Death Star Trench of Linux usage. I far that by the time Ubuntu fully catches up with the hardware in my desktop PC the processor and ram therein won't be able to cope, though hopefully for an iteration or two yet it will be less hungry than XP on that machine. Who knows? If I could get Amarok on WinXP yet I wouldn't even care. Kubuntu Gutsy is out before that, though, and I've never been patient with technology.
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