Category: Humour
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Vote for Stephen Hawking on the £50
The Bank of England is asking the public for recommendations for a scientist to go on the £50. This is before they give the honour Rosalind Franklin because she is a woman. Mind you, if that is the route they chose then Margret Thatcher who started her career as a chemist would be my choice.…
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Off-topic DIY hacks
This learned journal usually confines its commentary to IT and project management but sometimes something crops up that is off-topic but so cool it needs to be shared for the greater good. https://youtu.be/yxviTLVjvDQ My favourite hack is the one for removing screws that have damaged heads. What’s yours?
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Humour: How to write a Haiku
Counting syllables seventeen is not enough eighteen would be bet A haiku is a Japanese poem with lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, 17 in total with thanks to Chlemtil
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An SEO expert walks into a bar…
An SEO expert walks into a bar, bars, pub, tavern, public house, Irish pub, drinks, beer, alcohol.
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Joke: Ever wonder why Java programmers wear glasses?
Ever wonder why Java programmers wear glasses? They don’t C#
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ArnoldC is a new language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s one-liners
And for the programming nerds out here, ArnoldC is a new language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s one-liners.
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Don’t occidentally send porn to kids
Murphy’s law is that “everything that can go wrong will” but even he could not have expected a supplier to accidentally send pornographic DVD’s to school children instead of copies of their school play. It took me some time to find a management “moral” from this story but here it is, you always need a…
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Humour: Excel and big data
As consultants our job is to help the user and unlike the poor second line support person we usually have the time and infrastructure to do it. Here is an amusing rant from one such Sys Admin in The Register. The scenario will be familar to anyone who has ever done a data warehouse project…
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On national destinies
I am reading Peter Hopkirk’s “The Great Game” a brilliant book about the Russia’s conquest of the Near East and attempts to reach British India. The present conflicts in the region remind us of the importance of understanding history and national characters. This quote came to mind, Americans are born to liberty, Russians to oppression…
Dr James Bayley 