The World’s Greatest Blog

You are browsing the archives of Work.

Today we checked our usual websites and noticed that the videos were not displaying in Firefox. I found a really useful thread here and a really good explanation here. The culprit seems to be IPv6 which can be uninstalled. It turns out we’re not the only ones struggling with our embedded Youtube videos.
This is a [...]

Of course, when you decide to take an afternoon off as a webmaster and general master of a few domains, it is usually the case that such hedonism is repaid with some kind of “Server Not Available” message when you return.
If this is on a Friday evening, then that is all the better.
One of our [...]

Tonight’s CSI showed the detectives walk into a Chinese fireworks importer warehouse during the daytime only to exit during the black of night as the fireworks went off. If you have any others just pop them into the box below.

William Hague has been making waves in the news in his position as Shadow Foreign Secretary for the Conservatives. With a victory for the Tories in the next election looking ever more likely, Linda Haywood probed the views of the former party leader. Read the fifth in the set of serialised articles here:
Matthew Taylor’s report [...]

William Hague has been making waves in the news in his position as Shadow Foreign Secretary for the Conservatives. With a victory for the Tories in the next election looking ever more likely, Linda Haywood probed the views of the former party leader. Read the third in the set of serialised articles here:
Families are now [...]

I seem to find that Tesco’s grocery website doesn’t really work for me. I have successfully ordered several deliveries but sometimes I just can’t get the website to work. It is often unavailable and the special offers never work. It seems to crumble under the sheer weight of products and users but it is just [...]

The Newcastle University Alumni Service generously hosted a free wine and nibbles night at the Baltic in Newcastle last week. The “Gold Network” teamed up with One North East to deliver the “Live Local: Think Global” theme on Thursday 17th July 2008.
Joanna Berry Academic Director of Executive MBA Programmes, Newcastle University Business School, kicked off [...]

I recently attended a rather useless networking event in the North East which shall remain unidentified. I have previously resisted all attempts to lure me to any “networking” events. I always imagine them to be a bad version of The Office with minor players handing out business cards left right and centre. A relative who [...]

Bastille Day commemorates the day, in 1789, when civil unrest led to the storming of Bastille prison and the beginning of the French Revolution. The downfall of the monarchy ensued and “liberte, egalite, fraternite” became the slogan of the new French Republic.
The Arc de Triomphe and the Champs-Élysées are today decorated with French and European [...]

So yesterday I was playing squash and I in my shandy drinking way was chatting next to the bar after the game.
The subject of what I do for a living was brought up and skillfully avoided, but it did lead the conversation on to why the Leyburn Leisure Club (where I had been playing squash [...]