Excel chimp: crunching numbers, counting beans

Made it to the end of the week. Only 80 hours of work after all that - don't know what the fuss is about. A very good picture on the BB...

Another day, another semi- Lionel - four in less than a week. My junior assistant is now really taking the piss about how old I am, and how...

Overheard on the bus this morning: Tooting undergraduate 1: When I graduate I'm gonna become a social worker, innit Tooting undergraduat...

...another opportunity to (use) excel. On a lengthy conference call back in the regions - GNER redeemed themselves by managing to run a tra...

Back in London, thank the almighty, but not without regional problems - having spent five hours taking me back to the North on Thursday (in...

Walked past the 'Queen's Delivery Entrance' sign this morning (which will allow the regional readers out there to identify where...

Made it back to the metropolis for a few brief hours - gratefully breathing in lungfuls of sulphur dioxide from stupid bendy buses. Good t...

I was going to regale you with amusing mobile phone photos of my regional hotel (pointy loo paper, beige shower curtain, creaky ironing boar...

Friends, I've been posted to a regional office for a while , and I've no idea whether the internet has made it up there yet, so ther...

Good to see that the Google ad server algorithm is working - track chimpanzees in the bush whilst controlling financial risk and governance...

... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. London has got through its second bout of snow in as many weeks. I wonder if yo...

I read somewhere that China blames the West for global warming. Fair enough. The problem is that their defence was backed up with some '...

Some of you may be aware of the chimp's parallel project, http://www.boilingtheocean.com/ , a collection of corporate bullsh*t jargon. A...

The Economist this week referred to the City's stock of 'due diligence accountants' being 'second to none'. The Economi...

It's five years to the day (I'm not anally retentive, I just remembered 02/02/02) since we moved into our current, and soon-to-be-ex...

Anti-social hours starting again - the chimp may be absent for a spell...

A clear winner in the Accountants-in-films competition.

...all of the bad press that estate agents suffer is wholly unmerited in my opinion. By way of context, the excel chimp enclosure in Tootin...