computer glitch

I arrive at work today to be told that I cannot use my room, because the engineer fitting our new telephone system drilled through my computer cable, so I had to use another room. This works, but is distinctly suboptimal for obvious reasons. I take everything I think I need from upstairs, but throughout the afternoon I have to send for things I have forgotten to bring with me.

COMMENT

People aren't forking out for the Pakistan flood disaster anything like as much as was hoped or expected. Why so? Is it something to do with Cameron suggesting the Pakistani leadership is friends with the Taliban behind closed doors? Or is it "donation burnout"? Or is it the fact that as most of the crucial road bridges have been washed away, it is virtually impossible for aid to get to where it is needed, even if the donations were there?

I think it might have something to do with the fact that people are catching on to the grim reality that only a tiny percentage of aid actually reaches the people who are most in need of it, because the vast majority gets hived off by corrupt officials and other criminal elements. This has been shown most dramatically in Haiti, where there was a huge response from the international community, but 8 months later, hardly any has reached the shattered population of that awful, tragic country.