Category: But Also

The Story of Johnny Head-in-Phone

A modern cautionary tale As he walked his dogs each day It was always Johnny’s way To be looking at his phone And the current playing tune; But what just before him lay, In his way, Johnny never thought about; So that every one cried out “Look at Johnny, all alone, Little Johnny Head-In-Phone!” This …

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Be a Star this Christmas

This is my niece Rebecca. In March last year, in the middle of her studies to become a doctor, she found out she had a brain tumour. By watching her video, you’ll see that she was one of the lucky ones. Find out more at http://www.thebraintumourcharity.org/raising-funds/be-a-star-this-christmas

The Bank that likes to say “Woof”

“If you want a friend on Wall Street, get a dog,” quipped Gordon Gekko, the cold-hearted protagonist of the film “Wall Street”. Now it seems that if you want a bank on the High street, then get a dog. Metro Bank “understand how important man’s best friend is to our dog-loving customers so we actively …

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No WFH? WTF?

    Will banning working from home stop the decline of Yahoo!? Surely not? See this leading article from the Ecomomist.

The i in team

  I have never met him but Ross Bradder should be knighted for services to business for sharing this on facebook from Santa Clarita, CA

Let It Snow

  The joy of community supported software is the features that developpers will add just for the hell of it. WordPress 3.8 introduces a new feature that is very appropriate for the season:    

A word of advice for Movember

Congratulations to all those who have completed a month of Moustache growing and commiserations with those colleagues who have had to endure living with a Mariachi band. A word of style advice from Private Eye:

Life’s change agent

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs 1955-2011