As embarrassing as having a conversation in the cloakroom broadcast simultaneously with the words of the leader of the free world might be, am I the only one thinking that things might have been a good deal worse?
What would be the reaction of the American driver to being forced to drive at the speed limit? How frustrating, for example, would they find it to discover that some college students had set up what amounted to a rolling road block along a four-lane motorway? And how fantastic would the whole thing look on [...]
This story is very, very good. I’ll leave the link until the end. Let’s start, not with the punch-line, but with a spokeswoman for Southampton City Council: Occasionally things go wrong no matter how hard we try to get things right. Read that again. It seems reasonable, doesn’t it? Keep that in mind, if you [...]
After an exploding can of deodorant removed the roof from a family home, it is clear that it takes more than “a freak series of mishaps” to move some people to anger or shake their trust. I can’t really blame him for what happened. I would be happy to leave him again when we next [...]
Computers are designed to do sums. They can do sums very, very fast. Some can even do more than one sum at the same time, provided you know how to ask nicely and want to do particular types of sums. Computers are just the right tool if you would like to do lots of sums [...]