Rebecca Black and friends* Google Zeitgeist 2011, the search engine’s list of its fastest rising queries, has recently been published. The global list is topped by 13-year-old Rebecca Black (pictured above), who was catapulted into fame when the video for her song, “Friday” went viral. The deaths of Steve Jobs and Jackass’ Ryan Dunn prompted […]
There’s still time to get office supplies delivered to your door before Christmas. Products available for next day delivery will be delivered tomorrow if they are ordered before 5:00pm today. But please check delivery info on individual products to avoid disappointment. Orders can be placed via our website 24/7 over the Christmas period, as per […]
Featuring, among others, staplers, hole punches and glue. Yeah, yeah, very good animation. Excellent exposé of the role office supplies can play in music. Now, who else wants to hit him? Join the queue. I’m really not a violent man at heart but seriously it would be hard to resist if the opportunity presented itself. […]
Four in 10 UK office workers have done something at the Christmas party they would later regret, according to a new poll commissioned by Monster, the career specialists. A quarter of those polled said they had done something “mildly regrettable” and a further 16 percent admitted to behaviour so reprehensible that it damaged their reputation […]
A survey for TGI Fridays has revealed how various office workers let loose their inhibitions at the Christmas party. According to the poll of 2,000, 23 percent will end up snogging a colleague at the Xmas bash and one in ten will tell a workmate exactly what they think of them. The poll revealed an […]
Audio equipment company Behringer have unveiled the loudest “the loudest iPad®, iPod® and iPhone® dock you’ve ever heard” to help launch 50 new EUROSOUND products. The $30,000 beast measures an absurd eight feet wide by four feet tall, bangs out a 10,000 Watts of power and weighs about the same as a smaller breed of […]
For some reason, a news story we did on chicken glasses last May has been one of our most popular pages in the last few weeks. In the spirit of this mania for fowl eyewear, here are a couple of apposite videos. The first one is a 1947 newsreel about the use of chicken glasses […]
If you need to order office supplies over the festive holiday period, we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be open for business on all working days to receive queries and orders by email and over the telephone. Deliveries will also be made on all working days. Orders can be placed via our website 24/7, as […]
Given the banking sector’s inability to regulate itself and its seeming determination to endanger civil society, you may be forgiven for thinking that you could do a better job of handling money. Well why not try? Itself stricken with difficult policy decisions to make to keep the Euro alive, the European Central Bank has launched […]
SplashData has released its annual list of the worst internet passwords. The passwords are ranked by how common they are. “Password” tops the list with the imaginative “123456” in hot pursuit. “Monkey”, “dragon” and “bailey” also feature (but why are they so popular?). The list in full: password 123456 12345678 qwerty abc123 monkey 1234567 letmein […]
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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