The last few weeks have been quite busy – and, at times, a teeny bit stressful. I’ve prepared and facilitated four crisis management and business recovery exercises (two of which included actors and journalists and mock TV and radio news reports and one of which had participants in four different time zones), run a couple […]
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Oh dear diary
A couple of blogs ago (see ‘It’s all geek to me’) I mentioned the fact that I’m not, shall we say, totally wedded to technology, at least not for technology’s sake. In that blog I also mentioned that I’m an aficionado of the humble paper diary. Whilst I admit it’s not particularly shiny or whizzy, my paper […]
A bird in the hand
Last year I had ‘one of those’ train journeys. I suppose it’s only to be expected when you’re travelling on a third world rail system. Like the one we have in the UK, for instance. Many of you will, I’m sure, have had similar journeys – the ones where the train stops in the middle of nowhere […]
Baggage allowance
I’ve just returned from a trip to the dentist. Not one of my favourite outings at the best of times, for reasons which I’ll come to, but it had to be done. It started with a bit of tenderness in one of my back teeth when I chewed on that side. This developed over the […]
Viva Las Vegas, part 4
Despite waking again at three in the morning due to my body clock still being up the Swanny, day two of the conference went fine. The presentations were interesting and informative and I only suffered a couple of relatively minor glitches. The first was an e-mail in the morning telling me that a dinner that […]
Viva Las Vegas, part 3
It would appear that my body clock has gone a bit haywire. Yesterday was quite a long day. By the time I got to the ironing episode (see ‘Viva Las Vegas, part 2‘) I’d been up for almost nineteen hours, which probably went some way to explaining my clumsiness with both the iron and my […]
Viva Las Vegas
I’ve never been to Las Vegas. I’m going there soon and I’m really quite excited at the prospect. Not because I’m a gambler, I hasten to add. I have been known to buy the occasional lottery ticket and enter the office Grand National sweepstake but that’s about the extent of my gambling habit. I am, after all, a […]
Ear ear
I spent much of my time over the past few weeks in my own little world, largely oblivious to everything going on around me. No change there, some might say, but on this occasion I have an excuse. A small problem with my ears had snuck up on me while I wasn’t looking. Or listening. […]
The ramblings of a travelling consultant – episode 7
I do a fair amount of travelling. It goes with the turf really, particularly as Evesham, where I live, being somewhat rural, isn’t exactly a hotbed of business continuity consultancy opportunity. Much of that travelling takes place in my car. Most of the time it goes OK, insofar as I make it from A to B […]
Forget it!
With increasing regularity these days I seem to find myself asking the question “why am I here?”. Not in any deep, philosophical way, I hasten to add; rather when I’ve gone from one room to another then can’t remember why. Just the other day I got halfway upstairs before I remembered that we now have […]