This is an open blog, if you wish to express your belief that “Tony Blair is a slimy maggot”, that “the people that tried to bomb the tube today really were a fucking shower, they give terrorists everywhere a bad name”, that “this blog is utter shit”, feel free. You can even post things that […]
First, apologies - the absence of the past few days was due to a last-minute decision to visit France on Friday evening, but more of that later. Perhaps.
It does at least let me lead into the story that yesterday I was once more on a train from France to Germany. As happened last time, at […]
Phone call from London this afternoon,
I will be free to go on holiday during the first week of August, as I shall not have to plan my move to the capital. I’ll be sent a written confirmation as well, but “the competition” had accepted immediately, so no chances left.
I couldn’t resist, I had to ask […]
Sometimes I think the entire point of the Economics section of the Guardian newspaper is to provide Tim Worstall with source material to ridicule. After all, all the readers have their money in ethical investment policies with the Co-operative, so why even bother with share data, right? That’s probably why today their website was showing […]
So London. Job Interview. Third round job interview, down to two candidates and actually a quite intense, competitive affair, with many of the interviews/events being head-to-head against her. Her being the other applicant, an intelligent young lady, about my age, with a frightening degree of knowledge about fungi. Most of it was easy(ish) enough, role […]
…but just for the day. Yes, once more I’m awake at some ungodly hour to catch a flight to Heathrow for, this time, the 3rd round of job interviews (or maybe it’s to discuss terms, they wouldn’t tell me on the phone – one never knows, but they wouldn’t be shelling out ca. €600 for […]
