George Bush covers 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'

What’s weird about this video is that it appears to be culled from the same speech. Oh and that he doesn’t screw up once.

July 22, 2006

P45 for British blogger

Quelle horreur ! A female UK blogger is sacked by a French company, supposedly for ‘gross misconduct’. I went to look at the actual blog to discover what juicy office gossip she had revealed, but the blog is such an incoherent, rambling mess of disjointed thoughts using pseudonyms to conceal her true identity, I simply gave up. Inevitably, Robert Scoble thinks this is very, very important. I don’t.

July 20, 2006

smoke and mirrors

Many years ago, in a parallel universe not far from here, I was involved in a CRM ‘proof of concept’. This involved producing a demonstration of a callcenter application accessing customer and product data from disparate legacy systems in a polished, unified, modern user interface. The scenario was pretty standard fare. A motor insurance company where a customer calls in to renew his motor policy and the callcenter agent walks through a standard ‘question-answer-retort’ guided dialogue. ...

July 20, 2006

what's in a name ?

There’s nothing worse than slaving away all day over a hot keyboard trying to coerce various pieces of software to synchronise a single customer record from one legacy system to another. Of course, the mouth-watering and long awaited climax to a hard days graft (and knowledge transfer) finally arrives at 18.47 when you are tired, irritable and just want to go home. This is it. This is your moment. Seize the day. You are poised of the edge of greatness, about to scale your own personal Everest. ...

July 20, 2006

T-shirt humour

Do not disturb I am disturbed enough already

July 18, 2006