Doctors’ handwriting was traditionally so bad they brought in computerised systems to make sure everything was printed and there were no mistakes and more advancement. My dad was a solicitor and his handwriting was dreadful but I think he had someone else to do the actual pen-to-paper stuff for him. I don’t remember anyone suggesting […]
Would you put your money where your mouse is?
The Internet is a thing of wonder – we can make friends, learn stuff, do splendid bits of shopping, mildly spy on our exs, then express ourselves a little. And it’s powerful too. Foolish posters lost their jobs and their loves by blabbing about stuff when they should have kept schtum.Poor naive Gary Mckinnon didn’t […]
Radio gaga
Nearly two weeks ago, I was driving home from a shift at the newspaper where I sometimes put in a guest appearance.I put the radio on, like always. I was looking for something amusing and diverting while I headed west looking forward to a festival of television on the sofa with the Panther. (Currently Wire […]
Flexible foe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7679802.stmPeter Mandelson, newly refurbished member of Brown’s inner sanctum, has decided to ‘review’ plans to extend the flexible working laws to all parents of children up to the age of 16. Currently the right to request a change in how you work only applies to those with pre-school or disabled children. The right to request […]
Ms-ing in action
It’s 2008.We live in a society where there’s hardly any racism or homophobia, not many people drive drunk and grown up laws protect all kinds of people from unfairness at work. Babies don’t die from preventable diseases very often and it’s possible to buy strawberries all year round. So this is progress – we’ve never […]