Excel chimp: crunching numbers, counting beans

Back from a typical British Bank Holiday Monday – it pis*ed down with rain non-stop for 36 hours, and we went to Ikea in the sensible estate...

The English summer is upon us, which means that it’s cloudy, there are millions of tourists milling about taking pictures of each other, and...

Appearing in a reality TV show? Need for a pre-pixellated shirt? Your problem is solved . I spent an unhealthy amount of time this monring...

We all know that Gordo is a miserable sod, but this is ridiculous. The most annoying thing about these adverts, currently plastered on every...

A moderately diverting piece about randomness and luck from the beeb. It makes you wonder why you bother in life, doesn’t it? But then ap...

Today’s entry is dedicated to the aggressive fiftysomething lady on the rush hour train out of London on Friday night, who grabbed my broth...

Feeling as if my liver is going to explode today, mainly because of a four hour Menu Gourmand (roughly translates as 'bloated pig')...

Grrr

An opening address from our soon-to-be-former premier ministre . For those of you who don’t speak French, Monsieur Blair is announcing that...

If war is a continuation of politics by other means ( cf. Von Clausewitz ), what on earth is the warbling and prancing of the Eurovision So...

Got an email yesterday with the above title. Is there any any such thing as a black swan ? Maybe that's the point. So, back from a wee...

Here is the story of an incompetent Credit Suisse guy busted for insider trading. The dude used the office phone to tip off his contact F...

Today’s supercharged entry is brought to you in association with Stephen Seagal’s Lightning Bolt , 'an energy drink as unique as the ma...

A quick one today – I have proper work to do. So, using the punchy bullet-point style so loved of due diligence practitioners: exchanged co...

Happy May Day, comrades, and long live the revolution. You can still join the brothers for an afternoon of marching and shouting in the May...

Question: what do: (a) Black Economic Empowerment (b) Harry Enfield , and (c) Razorlight have in common? Simple. As a result of (a), milli...

Out and about last night (rare enough nowadays at a marginal cost of £8 per hour for babysitting), first to an art gallery (just a buncha p...

“Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg - it seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else” Thanks to LBJ (...

Being the Wednesday of Administrative Professionals Week® (formerly Professional Secretaries Week®), today is officially Administrative Prof...

So dazvedanya Boris - the last of the great boozers in a position of power and influence, ignoring Charles Kennedy, of course. Feeling less ...

Happy St George’s Day . Last I checked on Google News, the only media outlets making any reference to this were the Wimbledon Guardian , Bla...

Having assumed that Reader’s Digest must have closed down years ago, I am proved wrong – apparently there are still enough readers out ther...

Check it out - a graphical representation of this blog (yes, I've been drinking), thanks to the fine people at Websites as Graphs . Give...

Aggressive Tre is behind today’s title – you’ve got to respect him for suggesting a VAT fraud in front of Sralan’s slightly ludicrous in-ho...