An Australian cook book, “The Pasta Bible” has a rather unique ingredient. One recipe calls for “salt and freshly ground black people“. A small proof reading error cost £12,000 in pulped stock. If you regularly send customers letters you will know proof reading is hard, if not impossible. There are three ways to deal with […]
Max your Meal
Many if not most business processes have two parts to them. First make a decision: – Should I hire this person? – Is this an acceptable payment? – Can I give this employee access to the system? Second carry out the actions: – Send an offer letter. – Reject the payment. – Provide a password. […]
Need Another Drink
E&J Gallo, the Californian winery has been caught in a scam, a 7 million euro scam. A group of wine producers from the Languedoc region have passed off 18 million bottles of plonk as Pinot Noir. This has been bottled and sold under Gallo’s “Red Bicyclette Pinot Noir Single Grape Wine” brand. The fraud came […]
Illegal Immigration
Virgin Media have sent a promotional pack offering cable TV to Aaron Needham in Nottingham. The letter from the Executive Director of Customer Care Mark Davidson (no less) was Addressed to: Illegal Immigrant, Cranwell Road, Strelley, Nottingham And started “Dear Mr Immigrant”, Apparently the marketing data that Virgin bought was corrupted, though Virgin (who have […]
The Rear End of a Horse
There is an urban myth that the design of the rockets that propel the shuttle into space is constrained by the size of a horses bum. The logic goes something like this: 1. The rocket diameter was constrained by the width of the railway tunnels that the train that delivered the rocket passed through. 2. […]
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