Struggling with SharePoint?

If you've just spent two weeks trying to get a list of items to appear in SharePoint, you might like to check out this manual which has just been uploaded, for a system which offered its users, back in the day, a similar level of productivity that SharePoint does now.

Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator (ENIAC) Manual - June, 1946

Miliband Talks Tough on Russia

As much as you may feel US cabinet members are not up to the job, they are like international brain surgeons compared to their opposite numbers in the UK.



Consider the British Foreign Secretary, Harry Potter lookalike David Miliband (above). British cabinet ministers are chosen on their ability to essentially be PR reps for their respective Civil Service departments. The British establishment does not like it if they have the capacity for independent thought or action. The ability to read press releases convincingly is the only attribute needed for the job. It's also helpful, but not essential, if they can walk and talk at the same time.

So recently Miliband's officials had the chief wizard talking tough to Russia

Here is Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and some of his officials considering their response




Methinks somebody in the British Foreign Office is having a laugh, no?

"Sucked Inside Out"

Sounds great, huh?!

Well, not if you're talking about the new Large Hadron Collider in CERN, Geneva

Woman packing for a vacation

Essential

- 15lbs of cosmetics
- 20 pairs shoes
- 30lbs chocolates, toys as presents
- Home brain surgery kit ("what if somebody on the plane has an aneurysm?")

Optional

- Underwear
- Passports
- Camera
- Itinerary

News from the world's IT Hub

"Now we've found out about the rats, there'll be no more plague in our lifetime!"
"Yes, that's right. A rat a day, keeps the doctor away!"

"So, what's on the menu?"
"Rat Au Vin"
"Sorry?"
"Well it's a rat... that's been..."
"... run over by a van. I see."

India's poor urged to eat rats

Sunday Fun - "Rubbery Heights"

For my American readers raised on SNL, this is an excerpt from a British comedy sketch show of the 1980s which featured something called humor

Enjoy!

It Came From Hollywood

One of the best Science-Fiction movies of all time is The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951). It stars British thesp Michael Rennie as an alien who comes to warn the human race that if it extends its violence into space, the Earth will be "reduced to a burned out cinder". He does this in a brilliant speech at the end of the film. Rennie was one of those actors who could read from a restaurant menu and make it sound like Shakespeare. Don't take my word for it, see for yourselves:




Despite being 57 years old, this film holds up very well today.

So the inevitable has happened.


Yes Hollywood are doing a remake. And who have they chosen for the Michael Rennie role?

None other than surfer dude Keanu Reeves.

I can just imagine him mumbling his way through that speech now. "So like, you've all got to give up your warlike ways, dudes.... yeaaahhh.. like, ok... awesome! yeah!"