[Image courtesy of Sébastien Wiertz at Flickr Creative Commons]Have I ever mentioned that I’m a bit of a language geek? Well I am. In fact, I’m a big language geek. Earlier this week, I was having my hair cut and asked […]

“How do you write so clearly?” somebody asked me recently. Clearly, me? Do I? Well, yes, I suppose I do, but it’s not because I’ve got some secret that nobody else has access to. I didn’t climb a mountain and […]

My broadband was restored last week, after being down for three weeks. Yes, that’s right. Three whole weeks. But there’s nothing more tedious than a rant about bad customer service, is there? So I’ll spare you the ins and outs […]

I just sent a PDF by email to a client. It’s password-protected – not by me, but by the person who sent it to me – and I told her so. It’s password-protected, I wrote. Here’s the password, I wrote. […]

So there you have it. The all-singing, all-dancing, everything’s-connected National Health Service IT system is to be ‘dramatically scaled back’ (i.e. quietly scrapped). Mind you, I could have told you that. For two reasons. First, I got a bad feeling […]