Cocktails. I love making them, but I don’t really drink them (though I enjoy a good martini) but the white russian, and its grumpy teenage child the black russian, captive me at the moment. With their coffee tones, and warming goodness, even though they are cold, they are like a hug.
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The news is full of tales about the youth crime, gangs, “the break down of the family” and “the break down of society”. It’s very fashionable to blame drugs, schooling, teen parents, lone parents, teachers, drugdealers, politians and a hundred other people.
Well, I’m sitting watching Nick Broomfield’s film “Nobody [...]
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The UK really is the home of innovation, really it is. It’s not been a week since Twitter announced they are not going to be able to provide an SMS service in the UK (I’d not even finished my blog post about Orange missing a huge opertunity here) and already a small UK firm has [...]
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I’m staying in a hotel this evening. It’s rather nice, with a great room and a lovely view. For £150 midweek it should be however, especially as there is little to no reason to stay here on business as far as I can tell. I don’t begrudge them the 150 [...]
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I used to work in a team which took all of it’s work from tickets raised in a queuing system. It was a simple way for people around the world to raise requests to us and for the team to manage their work load.
Each ticket has an area of work (so the right people [...]
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