Why is a company worth 1.8 trillion dollars laying off staff? This is a company — the world’s third wealthiest — which made something like 17 billion dollars this year. Why, in a time of hardship, would a company making such gargantuan profits lay off thousands of employees? A percentage point downturn in revenue doesn’t …
I’m found out if all I do is hide between the lines, An outsider at the door. I’m unbound, foreign on a path forever mine, This outsider at the door. Blanco White, Outsider
I must say that the omission of a hash key on Mac keyboards is one of the dumbest design decisions ever. If you use your Mac to produce graphics for the web, you’ll want to use the hash key for colour hex codes. If you’re writing CSS, you’ll definitely need it for defining the same. …
In every nation there are those striving for peace, and those striving for war. If you must pick a side, choose those who are truly striving for peace. To work out who is who, you must open your eyes, and resist the collective amnesia demanded of us. To strive for peace doesn’t mean to shrink …
When we lose someone we love, we might rage, “It was too early” or “They didn’t deserve this.” But another way to think about it is that God is taking the good people back. They were given the same opportunities as everyone else, but chose to use them well in the selfless service of others. …
For those with foresight, remote working has the potential to provide the economic levelling up deprived northern towns seek. There may be no jobs up there, but there are plenty of vacancies down here that could easily be filled by a remote workforce. Why the alarm, when the banking and tech industries have been outsourcing …
In life, I find, we tend to be tested by whatever occupies us at any given time. In the very early days along this path, such tests would often revolve around the strange hypotheses I’d entertain to account for the perplexing conundrums of the moment. In the period leading up to my testimony of faith, …
Where is home? If people ask me where I am from, I will invariably respond, Hull, despite having not lived there for twenty-five years. By now, I have lived the greater part of my life elsewhere, but it was in its proximity that I was born and raised. In our mind’s eye, it becomes home …
I confess that I struggle with people reading what I penned years ago. On the one hand, there is the cringe factor. On the other, I wrestle with my perennial cynicism. Will my critical thought, hewn of the context of the moment in which a post was penned, misguide and divert whoever may stumble upon …
“Oh, this works on mobile?” Of course it does. “Then why are we developing a mobile app?” Because you never bothered consulting me. “But this works perfectly well.” That was exactly my point.
