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Breaking Wine Glasses - How To

Posted by: Emily on 7 Aug 2008 @ 9:15 am Category: Inside Ireckon

As I have recently proven – it’s quite simple to break a wine glass. Glass goes on uneven surface, or out of view, glass is knocked and falls to the floor. Easy. What’s not so easy is cleaning up the spills – especially as I have a soft spot for red wine.. but I’m not here to talk about cleaning products.

So ultimately there are several factors at play here; gravity is the obvious one, then there’s minute cracks/imperfections that distort the stress patterns within the glass’ structure, impair the glass and reduce its strength – making it more susceptible to breakage. The other major issue is my clumsiness. We don’t have to be aware of and understand the different elements that contribute to the glass breaking – we just know that when a glass falls – it breaks.

In our daily lives we accept so many things as absolute. How bizarre that as a species we have evolved and learnt through questioning the things we ‘know’ and interrogating those we don’t – yet still so many of us are willing to accept it when we don’t know or understand something. Aside from our opposable thumbs – we are set apart from the rest of the animal world by our incredible ability to learn and adapt – and that’s probably one of the most exciting things!

Where am I going with this? When I started at ireckon I didn’t completely understand the web. I was a frequent user, and if you’d asked me then I would have said I had a fairly good understanding of it all. So with hindsight on my side I realise that I had (and still have) a lot to learn. I’ve been immersed in all things web for over a year – and I can now talk most things web-related quite comfortably. I’ve absorbed a whole lot of information – and am now in a position where I am able to share my knowledge and help others learn – but it’s been no accident.

I enjoy the learning process; I feel a sense of achievement when the shroud of confusion and ambiguity lifts. I find the more I learn, the more I want to know. Luckily I have some wonderful colleagues who are more than willing to explain and walk me through some of the more technical details. I enjoy finding out what our teams have done, how they did it and why they have done it in a particular way.

So thank you to all the wonderful people here for teaching me new things and helping me learn. If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting them – visit our kennel and put a face to the names and voices behind our emails, phone calls and blogs!

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