Mike Little's Journalized

I finally got around to playing with the new calendar in b2. You can see the results on the right. I needed to tweak my style sheet to get it looking how I wanted.
I’m quite pleased with the result.

I couldn’t believe the rain today. Incredibly heavy. Especially after the good weather we have been having. And it made the office unbearably humid even though it was slightly cooler than yesterday.

I guess it means all the foreign visitors for the Commonwealth Games now have a better picture of what Manchester weather is like!

It was unbearably hot in the office again today. 92 degrees fahrenheit!
I can’t see how ’saving money’ by not getting air conditioning can be truly economical when people are too uncomfortable to actually concentrate on work. I would guess that lost productivity across all the staff would soon add up to the cost of the aircon.
But “what the hey”, the bean counters run all companies these days don’t they? The bottom line is the be all and end all of everything. “If everyone works 20 hours overtime next month we can make our targets”. Never mind the workers. Never mind the projects that aren’t ready to be started. Never mind the morale. Never mind the dealines that can never be met!

I’ve just finished The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine et al. This is the second time I’ve read it and it was just as entertaining and above all relevant this time round.
If you want to check out some of the ideas around this see the original cluetrain website. Or you can now read (almost) the entire book online at Gonzo Marketing.
Coincidentally we received an email at work today entitle “Urgent: Competitor on premises” and which included the line “It is therefore paramount that we appear to be thoroughly professional”. “Appear”? we only have to appear to be professional. It’s presumably OK if we are not actually professional!
Recommended.