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How To Be Good

I am not a salesman. I was not put on Earth, if there is indeed a reason why we are, to sell things. This was demonstrated several years ago, painfully, when I went for an induction at a call centre. They told us that we were to sell products in a “clandestine” way. What they meant was that we should try and charm the customers and then, slowly but surely, drop subtle hints which would get THEM to ask US More

PHS

Why is David Cameron so keen are introducing private and for profit business into the National Health Service. He has just announced plans to sell off the state owned NHS Professionals which supplies agency staff and NHS Locum jobs to hospitals. Its always been big business providing temporary workers. In the old days there used to be pools of workers who would be able to cover sick days and vacation days for the regular workers. Then, agencies took over the More

UKs unpredictable Summer

The Enigin blog mentions burnt skin and red faces in the office. I must say that I can relate to that! It was so hot on Sunday and Monday, the indoor fan only helped to blow the wind around it seemed. Absolutely useless. I recall wishing for the rain. Even outdoor it was muggy hot with no breeze at all.

At first its so nice to finally have the sun, no more taking along a brolly in case it rains More

No Excuses!

Are you the kind of person (make that nerd) who beams with excitement whenever the word RAM or hard-drive is mentioned within fifty feet? If you are then the following post should be right up your geek street. If you’re not then you should read it anyway, because you just might learn something amazing. The post is about energy saving computers and is really quite fascinating, even if I do say so myself.

Me, I’m practically a technophobe. I wouldn’t More

Guardian

Some of the biggest mysteries of the world are the little things: why do only people who look up tend to get pooed on by birds? Why do the hinges on pedal bins rarely last longer than one month? But one of the most pressing questions concerns babies, of course. And that question is: why do their heads look so big in relation to their bodies?

I was pondering this moments before the door opened, my hands full of baby More

The Catastrophic Consequences of Offshore Drilling

It is impossible to overlook the recent environmental disaster caused by human negligence and greed. I am talking about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, of course. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig might be cited as the primary reason for the spill but to my mind, the main reason for such potential damage to the world, is the absence of human foresight and even basic intelligence.

Will we never learn? This is not the More

The Myth To End All Myths

Men can be such moaners. Women might moan about Cosmetic Surgery Prices and laddering their tights, but it’s nothing compared to male moaning. Recently I was in the company of one such moaning man. His point of moaning? The men’s toilets. “They’re rubbish, I bet the girls toilets are so much better,” he said.

This continued for some time. I sat and drank my wine, and Mark moaned on and on about how great the ladies lavatories were supposed to More

Sorry Men, But It Is Like This

I am a girl thus I have brilliant ideas non-stop. Need I say more? No, I didn’t think so. Girls, since the dawn of time, have been the ones with the really great ideas. Like Laser tattoo removal , yep, that was a girl idea. And Einstein? He wouldn’t have got anywhere without his woman (Ok, I have no facts to base this on, but we all know it has to be true, right?).

Back to my wonderful ideas. Ok, More

All Girl

Even though I am a woman through-and-through (and being a northern woman can give you a quote for every laser hair removal manchester based place) I can see that in some ways men are treated somewhat unfairly, despite them pretty much ruling the world. Case in point: take women only car insurance for example. I shall not complain too much, as it allows me a fabulously cheap deal on my little girly car, but what would happen if a men More

Janemares

There are many words and expressions that are just too stupid and difficult to know to justify existing; like buy idebenoneand ‘big as a cow!’ (When the correct term would be something like ‘big as a semi-detached house, if not somewhat bigger!’) Then there are those words so pointless and inept, yet so clever. One of them is equivalent. If you’re looking for a word to mean anything but what it means, More