The future of home delivery… Top-Gear style

Jeremy Clarkson and his boys (Richard Hammond and James May) have signed a £160m deal to create a 3 series set of motoring programmes for Amazon.  So Amazon have used some of his downtime to get him to appear in their ad for drone delivered packages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXo_d6tNWuY  

Dilbert nails “wantrapreneurs”

Love not having to fly to meetings, but I still hate conf calls #funny

UberConference have summed it up perfectly in this video https://youtu.be/zwdKWg_uwuY

Celebrate 4th July America, but it could have been SO MUCH BETTER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQcPZWctDfM But don't believe us Brits. Ask an American. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IniY_y8jCOQ    

Literally genius or is it literacy genius?

Students at a local school were assigned to read 2 books, 'Titanic' and 'My Life' by Bill Clinton. One student turned in the following book report, with the proposition that they were nearly identical stories! His professor gave him an A+ for this report. Titanic: Cost - $29.99 Clinton : Cost - $29.99 Titanic: Over …

Multi-tasking – an example that actually works #funny @mrchrisaddison

Most multi-tasking is doing more than one thing at a time and getting a worse result than doing each one individually. But I came across a lovely example where it does work:  Carpool (not carpooling). Carpool is a web series presented by English actor and comedian Robert Llewellyn. In each episode he interviews a guest …

Apple to launch OS for Windows machines

In a surprise (leaked) announcement Apple is set to launch its own operating system for Windows machines as a way of reviving its flagging mojo. It said that is sees the market is still hugely lucrative and shows steady growth and Microsoft has been making way too much wonga for far too long. They have …

Yoga mat for sale. Used once. – $1 (Bellevue)

Here's the full text from the Seattle Craigslist ad below: Yoga mat for sale. Used once at lunch hour class in December 2009. Usage timeline as follows: 11:45a Register for hot yoga class. Infinite wisdom tells me to commit to 5 class package and purchase a yoga mat. I pay $89.74. Money well spent, I smugly …

Customer Service #fail #virgin

Dear Virgin Media, I'm really sorry for my Father in Law not paying his bill last month, but what with him being dead and all, it's probably slipped his mind. Some people, eh? You, however, are to be publicly commended for swooping in with all the sensitivity of a charging rhino and instantly fining him …

Valentines Day card inspirational messages

With Valentines day coming up, some of the less-romantic guys may be looking for ideas to put in their Valentines cards... I may be dyslexic, but that doesn't mean I don't vole you Roses are red, violets are blue, I've got something nasty, and now so have you You make me so hot just thinking …

Samsung gets its adver-mojo #samsung #apple

Samsung scored a direct hit at Apple by airing the ad below just after the announcement of the iPhone5. Now they are running this ad at this Sunday's SuperBowl on Sunday which pokes fun at the recent lawsuits between Apple and Samsung. None of this comes cheap. Last year spent $191 million on marketing in …

Fifty Shades of Finance

In a great letter to the Financial Times, the writer has captured the essence of compliance in the financial services industry. Malcolm Crow claims that the book Fifty Shades of Grey is not about compliance issues relating to the financial services industry. He is clearly wrong: I have it on good authority that the book …

Smart Casual – how to avoid getting frocked up #culture #funny #dresscode

Relaxed, yet professional We at Nimbus are ‘relaxed, yet professional’ and that hasn't really changed since being acquired by TIBCO. That's what our staff tell us. That’s what our clients tell us. That’s the exact wording in our company values statement . In the office, from the CEO down we wear jeans, polo shirts and …

We’ve been bent over and bankered at a cost of £46,774 per person

The current Barclays scandal has gathered momentum and has now gone way beyond "it had insufficient business controls" as the recent Guardian article today, Barclays Libor scandal: how can we change banking culture? spells out in graphic detail. The UK population has been well and truly bankered. To sum up the excellent article According to …

Barclay’s market sentiment summed up in one logo… #banking #greed

Following on from my post Who will regulate the regulators? and Barclays 'record' fine.