Reading time: < 1 min Bank of Scotland I salute you. You changed the online banking system so I can no longer see what transactions are happening in my account.You also changed the phone banking system and having spent the last 8 minutes navigating your ‘new improved’ system (improved for who?!) you now want me to wait to have my…
Reading time: < 1 min Blogroll here has been updated, some sites removed, one added: Hello Pink Socks! As ever, if I’ve removed you and your are a bit miffed, let me know and I’ll probably add you back on. Equally if you link to me already and you don’t feature on my blogroll it’s probably because I don’t know…
Reading time: < 1 min Normally I’d post something like this in the miniblog but it’s too good to ‘lose’ in there. If you are at all interested in web design you’ll know the name Jakob Neilsen, he’s been around since the dawning of (internet) time. Many other designers take umbrage at the things he says, whilst agreeing that he…
Reading time: 2 mins I’ve toyed with posting this several times in the past few days, but a comment on one of yesterday’s posts helped me make up my mind – namely.. bugger it, post and be damned! Michael Moore is in the news again. He seems to becoming more and more prominent, especially since I saw him speak…
Reading time: < 1 min I remember going on a management training course and taking a Belbin test. It’s designed to help you create a perfectly balanced team with the right mix of ideas people to “do-ers”. I think I was pegged as the type of person who takes an idea and expands on it, plans it then hands it…
Reading time: < 1 min One key advantage of wearing a good set of headphones whilst working (other than drowning out the voices and distractions of the office) is that you suddenly realise that the backing singer on the song Turn and Run, from Neil Finn’s excellent album One Nil is Sheryl Crow. Going back to her roots?