At work we have an email policy. I do not agree with all off it -
using Outlook and Exchange for example is an insane idea - but
there are some good points in the company policy. One of the
most sensible points is don't send email if you don't need to,
many times speaking to someone in person is better, or the
email just doesn't need to be sent.
This week we had an email inviting everyone, all 70 000 employees,
to a concert in Nowheresville, USA. It was crass and stupid, not
all US employees work at head office and lots of us don't work in
the USA at all. Because the email came from a senior bod no one
will have told him it was stupid and insensitive, reinforcing the
view that the head office doesn't think or care about the rest
of us...
Only a day later we had a typical stupid "me too email" sent from
some moron in marketing who is too stupid to be allowed a Blackberry.
Some irreverent person, from some insignificant devision was promoted
to some other irreverent position. As usual senior promotions and
junior open position are sent to everyone, we never hear about
open senior positions or promotions of nobodies... Anyhow, within
5 minutes some clueless idiot it marketing sent an email to everyone
to congratulate them, followed by some other idiot who should not
be allowed to touch a computer...
People who reply-to-all or send to-all should have a damn good reason,
being an utter idiot isn't a good reason...
Bah! Humbug...
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Just made a dead simple microwave pudding. We were
looking for a steamed pudding recipe that we could
microwave instead of steam, and this one looked
good enough to try, so in less than 30 minutes it's
all done and eaten!
- The Topping:
- 70 g whole cranberries (fresh or frozen)
- 100 g recurrent jelly
- The Pudding:
- 85 g Self-raising flour
- 25 g ground rice
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 100 g sugar
- 2 medium eggs
- 100 g butter
- vanilla pods or good vanilla extract
In a small pan gently heat the redcurrant jelly and 2/3rds
of the cranberries. Simmer until the cranberries are soft but do not
rupture them. Set aside and allow to cool a little.
Grease the inside of a 700 ml microwave safe pudding bowl with butter.
Mix the pudding ingredients together and beat into a sponge batter.
Fold in the 1/3rd of the uncooked cranberries.
In the bottom of the pudding basin, spoon 1/3rd of the
cooked cranberry+redcurrant mixture. Carefully spoon the pudding
mixture on top. Cover the basing with a silicone top or similar.
Blast in the microwave, we did it for 8 minutes on high, which
may be a minute too long.
Once cooked, tip onto a plate and pour over the remaining
cranberry+redcurrant mixture. Serve with lashings of custard.
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Yesterday was the 2007 London Perl Workshop. In
the keynote address Tim Bunce played a section of
the "Did You Know" video. It's all a bit obvious,
but it does raise a few points that policy makers
better take note off.
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