Oh for the day when milk bottle tops were silver things you pressed with your thumb, presuming of course that the blue-tits hadn’t got at it first, or the cream had frozen up and pushed it off from inside. I took particular and perverse pleasure as a child at pushing the tops down almost to [...]
I’ve previously confessed that I have a bit of a thing about small print. The radio equivalent ‘advert post script’ is particularly enjoyable, as the actor doing the reading has to rattle through the ’small print’ in double quick time, and anybody who’s even paying half a bit of attention will probably pick up it’s [...]
Breaking news about a horrific breach of process that has led to 25 million records going astray between the Revenue and Customs, and the National Audit Office. Clearly somebody in the organisation screwed up horrifically, and is probably nursing a P45 and watching our most senior politicians defend themselves with a very very bad sinking [...]
We’ve all done it on occasion; some people do it almost without thinking. It’s the office equivalent of a school child raising his hand and crying “Miss! Miiiissssss! I’m worried Richard’s probably not going to deal with what I’ve got to saaaay!“. I refer of course to the “power CC”. The habit of CC’ing a [...]
Pre-amble: This is a post that’s likely to be revisited somewhat. It was originally titled “lastminute.com considered harmful?“, but it’s clear to me now that lastminute.com were not to blame, so I’ve amended it accordingly. The hotel in question was the “Harrington Court Hotel” in South Kensington, and lastminute.com were merely the agents we used. [...]
Given my father worked for the Royal Mail for over thirty years, and that I spent 3-4 months in the summer of 1992 delivering post to the residents of Wells, you might think I feel a soft spot for the Post Office/Royal Mail (I use the term interchangeably, but am referring to the public postal [...]
Once more unto the breach!, and once more we do battle with Glasgow council and associated hole-digging/cone-placing cohorts. We returned from our 2 week holiday to find some of those flimsy barricades around a shallow hole in the ground right outside our house, carefully positioned to cause us great difficulty in getting our car in and [...]
I’m going to deliberately put on my contentious shoes and clomp about a bit. Not something I do that frequently. I like to be considerate of others, and sometimes pursue that to it’s wooly conclusions and just get myself worked up to no good end. But I’m getting increasingly grumpy and, perhaps ever so slightly [...]
Ah, the old chestnuts of Religion and Politics. Don’t ever bring them up in the pub, so the saying goes. The reason is you’re probably going to upset, annoy or become enemies-for-life with your former friends and drinking buddies, and that’s no way to behave. In a pub of all places. Personally, I’m all for a [...]
One of my clients is currently looking to hire a full time systems administrator (More details here), and we’re finding it incredibly difficult to find the right person. Whilst we do get a lot of CVs, I’m finding it incredibly frustrating getting solid candidates that I even want to interview. On the whole the CVs [...]
