Google Photos decided to play around with this photo which was taken in the foyer of the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai. It takes a couple of photos that I took and ‘mashed’ them together to give a sort of ‘flick-book’ effect.
Rule for one .. Rule for the rest..
It’s only fair I think that MPs start getting the same treatment as other public servants.
This blog sums it up nicely :
http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/uk-pay-rises-nurses-1-mps-11-bankers-35/
Want to see my holiday snaps …
Yikes, that dreaded moment where someone returns from holiday, and invites you round to see their Slideshow of holiday snaps ….
Tired of the Winter Olympics ?
Here’s a different kind of sport ….
Victoria wouldn’t be amused
Victoria most certainly wouldn’t be amused. Today, most of the Victoria Line of the London Underground has been shut – due to flooding.
What the bosses weren’t too keen on actually telling the public was that the flooding wasn’t your normal every-day rain water from London’s soaked streets, but quick-setting concrete from building works they are currently carrying out. OOOOPS !!
As The Guardian reports :
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Happy Birthday Dad.
The end of another one of ‘those’ days. It would have been Dad’s Birthday today. I know its been 4 months, and these types of occasions will get easier within time, but I still miss the man like crazy.
Incident Management Process Lead / Incident Manager / Customer Service Manager
Anyone looking to fill a vacancy ? It looks like 2014 will present me with an opportunity to see what employment lies available.
Currently working as an Incident Management Process Lead within the Service Management funtion, with knowledge of ITIL, looking for similar work area, but would also consider reverting back to my first career of Customer Service/Customer Experience Management.
Ideally looking for positions based in the South of England, currently based in Staines, with ties to Wiltshire & Bristol areas.
Please do not hesitate to get in contact if you’d like my CV. A contact form is available from the link at the top of the page.
How London Was Redesigned To Survive Wartime Blackouts
This is a fasinating article about the lengths needed to compensate for turning the lights off in London during the war
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Have you tried turning it off and on ?
Some could say that this is the centre of my life (yes this has been my daily working life for most of the last 15 years)
Why IT failures at big companies are unlikely to go away
Computer system failures are depressingly common
Business deals that have to be aborted, staff who don’t receive their wages, invoices that don’t get paid on time – companies can face potentially catastrophic disruption when their banks suffer computer system failures.
Yet these interruptions are far from uncommon – institutions like NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and many others have all run into problems that have left their customers in the lurch, and their IT staff scrambling to find and fix the issue.
Alan Victor Bourne Cluley
Passed away peacefully, following a short illness, at the Royal United Hospital, Bath on Saturday 19th October. Loving husband and father, he wil be sadly missed by all who knew him. Funeral service to take place at Semington Crematorium on Wednesday 30th October at 4.00 pm. Family flowers only. Donations in memory of Alan will be given to Macmillan Cancer Support & Wiltshire Air Ambulance
