This has nothing to do with charities other than the people who work for them are usually nice people and might be interested in my findings. I have a little bird table in my garden and like to think I’m doing my bit to support wildlife in south London. I have a little thingy hanging [...]
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Stuart’s Friday tip
Here’s a little known fact about Powerpoint. There comes a time in any presentation when you want the audience to stop looking at the screen and look at something else. That screen is hypnotic and no matter how exciting the other thing is, their eyes will be drawn towards your slide. It’s as if there’s [...]
Unhelpful ‘help’
I need to get this off my chest – Microsoft Access’ least helpful help facility. I’m building an Access database. It’s nothing fancy, and I haven’t built one for a while, so I’ve created a table that I want to delete. I can’t see easily how to do this, mainly because I’ve had to migrate [...]
Information sheet from Challenging Behaviour Foundation
The Challenging Behaviour Foundation has published a new information sheet for family carers which we are very happy to plug. ‘Ten top tips’ provides basic legal information including getting an assessment of needs and a care plan, and the role of allocation panels practical information and advice to families concerned about cuts in funding for [...]
Housing benefit fiasco
“A leaked letter from the office of Communities Secretary Eric Pickles warns the Prime Minister that housing benefit cuts could leave 40,000 homeless. The letter, written by the minister’s private secretary, warns that instead of producing a predicted £270million saving, the benefits cap is likely to ‘generate a net cost’ to the taxpayer as councils [...]
Special Education – action required
The Alliance for Inclusive Education is an organisation leading the national agenda on Inclusive Education. The Coalition Government is in the process of introducing legislation which will undermine the current education legislation and make inclusive education far more difficult than it already is for many parents and disabled children. The Alliance has produced a response to part of the [...]
Now why didn’t I think of that? (#374)
This is such a smart idea – why didn't I think of it? This is for you if you own a smartphone with one of those map type apps, the sort that helps you find your way from A to B. The other pre-requisite is that you often forget where you've parked your car. So [...]
Gorgonzola season opens
OK – this post is nothing to do with business, but it reflects one of my other great passions – gorgonzola hunting. Each year, on this day, the season opens and people across Europe can once again, but for a few days only, openly hunt the gorgonzola. These small creatures inhabit dense woodland, and are [...]
Indexing a book
It's been a little while since I posted – been working hard to finish off the book "Running Successful Projects". I swear this last couple of weeks has been the hardest part. Creating the thing in the first place was easy compared to checking it all through, proof-reading, formatting etc. And today I have [...]
Get off chest time
There is no way this is supposed to be a political blog. I try very hard to keep neutral about the whole sordid business. But there are times….. The latest press story which raises the prospect of parents putting their children into care because they're being refused respite illustrates the point I wish to make. [...]
