If you want to avoid the virus then avoiding being exposed to anyone who has been near the White House in the last few weeks seems like a very good idea, lots of them have got it and few of them appe… (View Post)

There's nothing wrong with Excel, providing you actually need a spreadsheet. The trouble is far too many organisations use Excel as a sort of catch-all tool for scripting, as a database, or a co… (View Post)

No to the same degree. I think the problem is that foreign correspondents generally aren't natives, and have a very different lifestyle from the people they are meant to be reporting about. Ther… (View Post)

I follow the NY Times on Twitter, as a rule any article from them about the UK is guff. (View Post)

The thing that gets me is not that there was a fault, but why did it take days to find it? I would assume that the people operating the system have some sort of sanity check, probably automated but e… (View Post)