It’s not nice to poke fun, but it is fun…

To be fair, I find it difficult to remember whether to use stationery or stationary. I have to work it out each time like this: If you want to buy stationery then you go to a stationer, just as you might go to a baker or [...]

Not politically correct, but that’s life… probably the best blonde joke ever. No, really.
Tags: blondes, jokes

Is it easier to build something in stone or in Lego?
The Guardian has a large photo today of a new St Paul’s Cathedral — they’ve rebuilt the one at Legoland Windsor. The photo and accompanying article aren’t available online[1], although Wikipedia has a photo of the last one. But here’s a question. The article says
The [...]

The Register has some unpleasant truths for the Google/CBS video shop — really, it’s just an extension of Google’s previous video search. It’s not the “truly historical meeting” that CBS would have us believe. It’s no more a video shop than Google web search is a bookshop.
Once I’d got through all the stuff that this [...]

Never mind about Tom Archer’s Gourmet Grills or Amber’s birthday in Corrie, Michael White has the latest on the Westminster soap, and storyline around the Lib Dems…
They’ve been in the spotlight for a whole week now, almost a record in my experience, and sure enough we all sat in the press gallery watching Sir Menzies [...]

Here’s a sentence that I wrote today:
I’m writing this so that people here (including me) can understand it better.
and here it is again after I decided that I should distinguish myself from the people here:
I’m writing this so that people here (and I) can understand it better.
By changing one word (including for and) I was [...]

While Lloyd spent Saturday night laughing at the awfulness (one, two, three) of Woody Allen’s Match Point, we spent it laughing hysterically with Family Guy. Because while I don’t have a TV my brother has filtered out all the rubbish programmes, and got me Family Guy on DVD. Can’t remember any of it now, of [...]

We’ve been literally drowned by responses from our prize quiz earlier this week. But before we draw a name out of the hat, let’s have a look at the answers…
Round 1: General knowledge

Field-marshal
1858 — by the Medical Act of 1858
Flint
Guy Masfield QC
1915
The Financial Services Authority
Associated Newspapers
Lynton Crosby
Little Bighorn
“Municipal” and “Boilermakers”

Round 2 omitted.
Round 3: Stars and [...]

Good sense dished out by the ladleful by Geoffrey McCaleb, for anyone considering outsourcing IT projects. Here’s just one gem (are gems served in ladles?)
Do you have a shit-hot project manager on your side? Do they? If not, forget it. Like in every other facet of business, solid communication is the key to success. Project [...]

Press Gazette features a story headed “Telegraph move met with mixed emotions”. The Telegraph Group (soon to be renamed Telegraph Media Group) are moving offices from Canary Wharf to Victoria Plaza in Buckingham Palace Road, SW1. And the story is… some people aren’t too chuffed.
According to PG, one “company insider” (which frankly might as well [...]