Rob’s Blog

I have just upgraded the backend of this site, Wordpress, to the latest version. I can’t really see any major changes except to my admin panel, but let me know, yeah?
Oh, the site experienced about 3 minutes of downtime during the upgrade.

A list produced by the European Foundation for Management Development and Suntop Media has revealed the top 50 influential managing figures of the world. Bill Gates, although hated by many, especially users of Windoze, managed to make it into second place. There is one entry I am quite pleased about. My favourite cartoonist, Scott Adams, […]

Upon my desktop this morning was deposited a list of the most popular baby names, researched and produced by the office of national statistics. Now, since the office of national statistics was set up in October 1999, not once have they produced one sound set of statistics. However, I have some advice:

99% of statistics cannot […]

Watching Chanel 4’s Demolition program I have just heard that one building the people hate is Buckinghamshire County Council’s Head Office in central Aylesbury. Obviously they are jumping on Hemel Hempstead’s bandwagon of blowing things up and hope to do a bit of regeneration, rather than destroy an industrial estate.
On that matter, I drove through […]

I have been bombarded with information today with information about a new book, Is It Me Or Is Everything Sh**?. Now, I have been told by many people that I am a pessimistic and very cynical person, and this book seems to represent my views. It is described by the authors, Alan McArthur and Steve […]