Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker

I have been past your way on many occasions, hurtling through space and time, twisting and turning through its warped fabric.  We share the same sun.   I have passed quite close this time, within twenty eight thousands of your kilometres but distance means nothing to me.  I have been closer though and there have been … Continue reading A near miss

Oh ivy, you and I both knew that this time would come.  You’ve been growing well in the corner of the garden and making it your own but it’s not, it’s mine and it is time to feel the curved blade of my secateurs upon your flesh. But you haven’t made it easy for me.  … Continue reading It’s time to tackle the ivy

So Scotland is thinking of coming out of the union.  A referendum is planned for some time next year and it will be up to the people to decide if their fate lies with London or Edinburgh or even Brussels.  Who knows which way it will swing, probably each way over the months ahead with … Continue reading What about the flag?

I have to say that I enjoyed the first episode of ‘Penguins – Spy in the Huddle’ on BBC1 on Monday in high definition.  The camera work was fantastic especially due to the ingenious penguin cameras. The producers managed to portray these animals in a sympathetic light with just enough use of comedy noises to … Continue reading Locked-in behaviours

I want to deliver bricks.  They are easy to understand, they are nice and firm with defined edges.  They come in a standard length and width.  With bricks you know what you are getting. Yes but I want water.  I’m not sure what I want, it’s not easy to describe but it will come to … Continue reading How many bricks would you like?

Don’t bother with an ordinary e-reader, they are so last fortnight.  What you really need is a ZoinkTM the first ever fully blown experience-reader.  Weighing in at less than 500g and with a 20cm screen it looks at first like many other e-reader products that are available on the market but when you add the … Continue reading e-reader

Robert Francis’ report into failures of the Stafford Hospital has been a wakeup call for the NHS.  The inquiry was undertaken following a higher than expected death rate at the hospital over several years but is it a chink of light for the NHS as a whole?  Is there finally a recognition that the target … Continue reading Is Stafford a chink of light for the NHS?

You’d think that when you are in trouble and an ambulance is called it would arrive quickly and take you to the nearest hospital for you to receive treatment.  It would seem reasonable that the time it takes for the ambulance to arrive is measured and perhaps that there is a target set to judge … Continue reading Call an ambulance

In my blog way back in March last year I said that I had been blessed with a bad memory.  There are large parts of my life that remain, for the majority of the time beyond the reach of my mind.  No matter how hard I squeeze its dark recesses it just won’t let up … Continue reading Still looking for John

In one of my recent blogs, Things I would like to understand, I raised a phenomenon that was taxing my brain.  What is happening is that users contact our ICT Service Desk with problems and we log things that have gone wrong as calls on the software.  These are then fixed and the calls closed.  … Continue reading Harmonic business