I’d be printing them now … they would be gorgeous ;)
ed: call the printers
ed: ed: If you’re Scottish, don’t be half Scottish !
ed: ed: ed: That’s good. Please use that. “If you’re Scottish, don’t be half Scottish.”
Draft ~ to be expanded.
Yrs ago …
It was 2001.
I was made redundant. 2001.
The interview was for a comp technician that had to travel all over UK maintaining software at retail outlets all over UK.
It transpired at the interview that the software – and the company – originated in Germany and that there was hostility between the German and UK subsidiary.
I don’t know for certain whether the UK subsidiary still exists but I doubt it.
My suggestion at interview that I should do German with the main company didn’t go down at all well. Real programmers are willing to learn new programming languages at the drop of a hat. You learn languages to understand. FM I should be thought of the day.
A suspicion that a group has conspired to arranged something …
Is that so difficult to accept?
Don’t political parties conspire to promote something to their best advantage? (spin)
Why shouldn’t other groups conspire to promote things or events to their best advantage?
Don’t they have reasons to do so?
Conspiracy theories
29.7.14 I like ‘conspiracy theories’. Tone doesn’t.
ed: Alexandr
ed: Looks like you’re having it now instead of coming soon …
Alexandr Litvenienko. Poisoned by Polonium-210. That’s the way it was reported back then. It’s getting reported now that he was poisoned by Polonium …
Alexandr, Alexander. Litvinienko, Litvinenko. The point is that his name is Russian (Russki) – like other foreign languages and alphabets it can’t readily be translated into the English (Latin?) alphabet.
I have been reliably informed that Russki nicknames are often far longer than their original names which seems a lot weird. Anyway let’s call him Al.
ed: the wider meaning of al