One of the most famous lines from any television show must be "Beam me up, Scottie".

A fairly clear statement in in first instance, but as time has worn on, it now requires much more clarification - for instance, in which Star Trek series or movie would like to be beamed into, sir? And really, even with today's fairly basic technology, the TV/moive wizards will probably cross-beam Captain Kirk and his intrepid band of intergalatic travellers between series/movies - a sort of Time Tunne/ cum Sliders series of Star Trek adventures.

Wow, almost as much shit as 'Christmas in July'.

Which brings me to the 'Starship Enterprise Attitude'.

For instance, if one watches Star Trek from any era, one will soon learn that confidence ... well, arrogance really, is definable as being held hostage on an alien planet, with no hope of escape - Scottie's on annual leave and no body else knows how to work the blimming beam-me-up thing - the hand laser is in the repair shop awaiting parts from a distant state and Kirk, blimming Captain blimming James blimming Kirk has the arrogance to demand that the Cling-ons (yes - those nasty things that hang around Uranus) Surrender!!!!!!! - PEACEFULLY.

Wow!! - that's arrogance.

Almost as arrogant as the world's largest arms manufacturing nations sitting a round a so-called peace table demanding that warring factions somewhere else in the world, stop shooting blimming hot bits of metal at each other.

I mean, who the hell really believes that arms manufacturing nations are going to benefit trade wise if there is not at least a few hundred thousand people around the world (preferrably other than in or near the arms manufacturers nations) shooting blimming hot bits of metal at each other or worse still, leaving explosive little metal disks in the ground that will kill or more likely maim people in those same regions for decades to come?

Or almost as arrogant as believing that Australia as a continent did not exist until Captain James Cook bumped into (discovered) it one day when looking for a bigger version of Mother blimming England. Or beleiving that no people live here in 'Ore-stray-liar' before the First Fleet landed in Botany Bay in 1788 and unloaded real 'settlers' (although quite unsettling on those people who had been here for ages) - many being criminals, whether convicts or not.

But really - or is that 'rarely' - to find a silver lining in every cloud is a good attitude, that's if you have the time in the day to look at every blimming cloud that floats by.

Now, the reality of the situation is that life is changing at an increasingly rapid pace.

Look at the computer industry - blink - see what I mean. The most fantastic up-to-date piece of hard/software you just bought is so out of date, that it now looks like a horse and cart with one whell compared to the now-latest version.

And just the other day was Monday and now I wake up and its blimming Thursday - who the heck stole Tuesday and Wednesday??? - probably got beamed into last week by Scottie, but I probably missed it then too.

Or were they forward beamed into next week - a bit like daylight saving but not so damaging to the curtains - which if it has, I now have more days in the next week to fly buy (I wonder if I could get that cross-beamed over to my FlyBuys on my credit card) and therefore feel that life is definitely speeding up more than ever.

And I'm sure the print is getting smaller.

Anyway, using the Starship Enterprise Attitude, I should tell everyone who is against me, that they have the chance to surrender, before I ...