Saturday, June 19, 2004
Friday, June 18, 2004
What being a manager is all about, and how to do it...
Sht! I'm a manager!:
- Working out what you want staff to do
- Telling them what is it so they can do it
- Making sure they are still doing it
-Working out how to do it better next time
Apparently, if you get to stage 3 you are doing well. Stage 4 is like a besuited version of nirvana. Not the band.
Don't shop when pissed....
You get impulsive:
Dear Mr K, thank you for your order from Amazon.co.uk:
"Me Talk Pretty One Day"
"Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim"
"The Enemy"
"The Worst Journey in the Midlands: One Man, a Boat and the British
Weather"
"North By Northwest [1959]"
"Ocean's Eleven [2002]"
"Clue [1986]"
"Shooting The Past [1999]"
Incidentally, I am watching 'Later with Jools Holland - Britpop Special'.
"You were the first girl at school to get breasts" may be the best lyric for summing up the genre.
Oooh, apart from perhaps "Who are my real friends? Have they all got the bends?"
Ecstacy.
Sh1t...
Goodfellas is on Sunday night on CH4. Which means I'm going to be late into work on Moday, as I will Have. To. Watch. It. Despite having seen it at least 12 times before.
It falls into the same vein as The Usual Suspects:
"ooh, I'll just watch the first 10 minutes".....(1:40am) "Shit..."
"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster."
Couldn't make it up...:
"the vessel, christened Jalapeno, has a checkered history. It had been boarded by several sea lions during an influx of the beasts into the harbor, but it did not sink at its moorings, he said. It was also, coincidentally, owned by one of the top finishers in the 1964 World Ping Pong Championships."
"God Almighty, we have to believe that human beings are better than this.":
Read it, read it all the way down and see what they are getting at. It comes full circle beautifully.
Thursday, June 17, 2004
My spam is just getting surreal.
I swear that this actually arrived in my inbox just now:
For example, around fighter pilot indicates that tape recorder about necromancer require assistance from cab driver beyond.For example, hockey player from indicates that ski lodge from reach an understanding with cheese wheel about tuba player.And a change of heart about the dark side of her ballerina.For example, traffic light beyond curse indicates that clock of garbage can give lectures on morality to defendant inside mirror.piroshki defined by brainwash near marzipan, because defined by roller coaster prefer tea party for traffic light.
imprison ginsberg limpkin ware durer septuagenarian angry
What the screaming blue feck is that about? A change of heart about the dark side of her ballerina? Jesus.
The tape, the courier and the 6-foot fridge.
It's that man again!
MSNBC - Rumsfeld ordered prisoner held off the books:
"Pentagon officials tell NBC News that late last year, at the same time U.S. military police were allegedly abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered that one Iraqi prisoner be held 'off the books' - hidden entirely from the International Red Cross and anyone else - in possible violation of international law."
Home Office 'granted dodgy visas'
And what has happened to the guy who blew the whistle?:
"The diplomat is understood to have been disciplined over his conduct."
That's right. The guy who told the world that his Government were basically letting in anyone who applied has been disciplined for telling the truth. Lying Labour.
Private poll, requires a possible grain of salt.
But even so, 2%? Jesus...:
"The Bush administration's last remaining justification for the invasion of Iraq has been demolished by a private poll revealing that only 2 per cent of Iraqis regard the occupying forces as liberators. "
More on the Iraq vs al-Qa'ida report
Rumsfeld especially guilty:
"The Bush administration's credibility was dealt a devastating blow yesterday when the commission investigating the attacks of 11 September said there was no credible evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had assisted al-Qa'ida - something repeatedly suggested by the President and his senior officials and held up as a reason for the invasion of Iraq."
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Ask the experts:
"no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States,"
Tony Blair says those involved in continuing violence 'bring shame on our country'.:
But only if it's happening in Portugal. Anywhere east of Turkey and you're alright, apparently.
C'mon, help us help you...
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Too little too late
OK, you've had an iPod for 12 months, listening to music 24/7. Why on Earth would you suddenly want to start paying 79p per track?
Monday, June 14, 2004
Barrel. Scrape. Repeat.
Scotsman.com News - UK - Bitter blow to Labour's recovery bid:
"By midnight, Ian McCartney, the party chairman, had been reduced to declaring that the fall in Labour's vote was actually quite good, because it was not as bad as the Tories' slump. "
Ian McCartney really is an odious little man. His only purpose in life appears to be to try to convince us the Labour party isn't up sh1t creek and to annoy me with his whining little Jimmy Kranky voice.
On tonight's Newsnight
Hypocrisy in action...
Fat Britain: News that McDonalds sponsored a team of British MPs to go to Portugal to play football at the start of the Euro 2004 championships while the government is considering how best to curb obesity led political commentators to search the thesaurus for the right noun.
Hypocrisy? Stupidity? Freebie? Whatever the correct way of describing whatever it was that the MP footballers were up to, at the time of writing they have proved to be remarkably reluctant to come on camera and discuss what exactly they were thinking when they accepted the McFreebie. We're on the case.
This is the 16th suicide bombing in Iraq this month.
Iraq car bomb targets foreigners:
"At least 11 people, including two British nationals, have been killed in a huge car bombing in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad."
The 16th! It's only the bloody 14th of the month! Of course, TB and GWB would have you believe the world's a safer place, especially when they provide 'proof' and later have retracrt it and admit the incedence of terrorism is actually rising.
Sunday, June 13, 2004
