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High speed dishwashing 27 Aug 2013 | 09:32 am
Gotta admit, that's fast . . . but how clean are they when he's done? Peter
What happened to 'completed staff work'? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:28 am
Early in my military service I was introduced to the concept of 'completed staff work'. Wikipedia has a useful definition of the term. Completed Staff Work is a principle of management which states ...
Bonds revisited - yes, they're turning critical 27 Aug 2013 | 09:04 am
My series of articles on the bond market a few weeks ago attracted little overt reader interest. Indeed, I had a few people e-mail with a sort of 'Meh!' response. They really didn't understand why t...
Musicians playing . . . dogs??? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
A Tumblr photoblog called 'Bass Dogs' is putting up a hilarious series of photographs of musicians playing their instruments - except that the latter have been replaced by Photoshopped images of anima...
Quote of the day 26 Aug 2013 | 07:56 am
From Daddybear: If you need a brush-up on your defensive-only hand-to-hand skills, try eating a chicken-based pasta dish while balancing a laptop on your knees, all in the same room with a Siamese ki...
An app for cows??? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:49 am
I had to laugh at this report about a program and associated device called MooMonitor. Eight million people in the UK now sport wearable technology, but animals wear it as well. One such technology ...
Writing update 26 Aug 2013 | 07:42 am
I'm continuing to work my trousers and fingertips to the bone. I set myself a target of publishing four books over a seven-month period this year, but if I'd known how much work was involved, I'd nev...
Perspectives on the NSA scandal 25 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
The NSA's unconstitutional violation of our privacy has been much discussed in recent weeks. I'm particularly irritated by the insistence from its defenders that what it did was 'legal'. That doesn'...
Shotgun dance moves??? 25 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
This is said to be Syrians dancing (and shooting) with shotguns - why, I have no idea. WTF????? Verily, the mind doth boggle . . . Peter
Doofus Of The Day #724 24 Aug 2013 | 09:37 pm
The video is self-explanatory. Peter