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Nice makeover for the Castle
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Where do they get these numbers from?
I’d hate to contract the NoroVirus. It sounds really awful and those poor souls who were brought down by it in recent months have my sympathy. There were many: over the Christmas break I read somewhere that over a million people had been affected, and here’s the odd part: only around 4,000 had presented themselves…
Why I hate “data protection”
When I rang a call centre this morning to make a payment on behalf of my wife I was faced with some daft questions. “It’s all to do with data protection”. No it bloody isn’t! It’s to do with inane call centre managers not working out what is really needed. Calling to make a payment…
Why Teamwork is the most Beautiful Game in town.
There was real footballing beauty in the way that Barçelona beat Manchester United in the Champions League Final last night. But of greater value in my eyes were what Barça stand for, their ethos, values and their beliefs. Because that is what makes them such a powerful team. Some observations: They are owned by their…
Now LinkedIn is getting silly
Having voiced some dissatisfaction with the LinkedIn endorsement process in an earlier item, I was surprised to get a message from the site one day telling me that because I was not visiting a group, even though I was receiving the email digests, they were going to unsubscribe me from group digests “to help keep my inbox…