Hugo Chavez has called video games ‘poison’ and has said of them that they are proxies for capitalist warmongering. “Those games they call ‘PlayStation’ are poison,” he said. “Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, ‘you’ve got to find Chavez to kill him.’” Chavez identified Western games to […]
On 11 January 2010, Miep Gies, who helped keep the diary of Anne Frank from falling into Nazi hands, has died at the age of 100. She was the last surviving member of a group of Dutch citizens who hid the Frank family of four, plus four others, in a secret annexe in Amsterdam between […]
One of the dodgier uses for envelopes is to convey nasty spores like anthrax or material purporting to be so to disrupt government or municipal business. Recent scares in Alabama show that this practice continues apace in the US. A couple of weeks ago, envelopes containing white powder were sent to government buildings in five […]
Office angels have published a list of ridiculous office jargon phrases in a bid to return workers to “plain English”. Some, like “Singing from the same hymn sheet,” “Let’s run it up the flagpole and see if it flies” and “Moving or going forward” are already old hat, even while retaining a unique sense of […]
A Lexmark study has found that Londoners do not recycle as much as others in the UK, with a tenth admitting to not doing it at all. Overall, however, the figures are encouraging, with over a quarter of Britons “recycling regularly.” Reusable ink cartridges have seen a boost in sales as more people seek to […]
A recent survey conducted at the Office Exhibition in the Middle East found about half of the 1,000 office workers surveyed admitted there was no assessment of workspace comfort at their workplace. Workplace comfort was also seen as essential to boosting morale. Commmenting on the survey, Nick Burnett, the design director of CitySpace, said, “We […]
According to a survey commissioned by sunshine.co.uk, more of us are booking our holidays online than ever. The number of office workers organising their holidays at work is on the rise, with 64 percent doing so from the office – an 11 percent rise on last year. Of the office bookers, a third said they […]
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The Government is urging nurseries and childminders to encourage three- and four-year-old boys to write using materials such as chocolate powder and coloured sand in a bid to stop them falling behind girls. Young boys lag behind girls their age in terms of literacy. Government guidance sent out this month includes advice on role-playing activities […]
Make It Cheaper, the business price comparison service, has estimated that heating offices and leaving computers and other electrical equipment of stand-by could have cost UK businesses as much as £110 million over the 11-day Christmas period. According to Make It Cheaper’s calculations, the average office consumes energy at the rate of 10 kilowatt hours […]
How to plan the office Christmas party Whether you count down the days, or desperately scrabble around for an excuse not to go, the office Christmas party is an event on almost every company’s calendar. So, how do you plan a party that everyone will enjoy? It’s a tricky balance to get Bob from Accounts […]
Top tips to improve your time management skills Despite what people say, time is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, expanded or reduced. It is fixed. Our perception of time, however, is another concept. How often do you think at 4pm “Where has the day gone?” and go into panic mode to try to […]
Planning in business is essential Everything from the monthly sales drive to a new product launch or project needs planning. It promotes joined-up thinking and good decision-making throughout the whole organisation. “A goal without a plan is just a wish”, observed the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, summing up a key business principle. Each business […]
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