The television news for the last few days has been full of reports about the situation in Calais. What is really disconcerting about it all is the way the reporters, commentators and anchors manage to avoid using a certain word: people. They always talk about ‘migrants’ doing this, and ‘migrants’ doing that. At no point […]
Entries from July 30th, 2015
Wordy Rappinghood
July 5th, 2015 · Comments Off on Wordy Rappinghood · Life
No matter how many times I read this I can’t make it make sense: While the process was laborious, for, as is often the case, because the computer systems managers have specified don’t report data of this kind, it resulted in atitudinal changes amongst engineers. I think you have to remove “for” and put the […]
Tags: Language
Yes – Like it is
July 5th, 2015 · Comments Off on Yes – Like it is · Music
I still have not got round to listening to all 7 of the identical live albums that Yes released last month as part of the Progeny box set and then noticed on Spotify that there is yet another live album out, released last week. Whereas the Progeny discs are all from are all from 1972 […]
Tags: Prog Rock
A coping strategy
July 4th, 2015 · Comments Off on A coping strategy · Life
I am currently ploughing my way through a book about ‘systems thinking’ (Freedom from Command & Control by John Seddon). It is not exactly a page-turner, but there is no option to wait for the film to come out. It suddenly got to be more fun when I decided to add some bits of my […]
Tags: Books
Party lines
July 2nd, 2015 · Comments Off on Party lines · Life
Since re-joining Crawley council I have been to a stupid amount of meetings, briefings and seminars. I think I had 8 different meetings last week. In a lot of those I have noticed something that I don’t think was always the case, although I may be mistaken – it was a long time ago – […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Tories
Bye bye branches
July 2nd, 2015 · Comments Off on Bye bye branches · Life, Technology
I had an interesting email from Barclays today, inviting me to take part in a trial of paying in cheques via online banking. Interesting because this is exactly the feature I was saying they should have when I last received a cheque from somewhere. With online banking capable of doing most things and cash available […]
Tags: Internet