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 […]
Attention Drunks
Officials in the Romanian town of Pecica have erected a number of road signs showing pictures of drunk revellers to drivers as a warning. Apparently the town has a vibrant night-life that doesn’t mix too well with cars. Road signs can be great examples of process improvement. I like this one for a number of […]
Too Much Information
In the US in the late 1980’s a psychologist called Paul Andreassen conducted an experiment on some business school students. He gave them all a portfolio of stocks and shares to trade and then divided them into two groups. One group were allowed access to a stream of financial information, they could talk to market […]
Can We Win The Afghan War?
Apparently the Afghan police have an attrition rate approaching 25%. Consequently there is huge pressure to recruit, just to keep the numbers up. The Afghan authorities have clear policies about who makes a suitable recruit, but tragically these are not being followed. On the 3rd November 5 British soldiers and 2 Afghani police officers were […]
Global Warming? Pah!
I am sitting in my office, slowly turning blue, looking at a good 4 inches of snow. I thought it was supposed to be getting warmer, the ice caps should be melting and half of East Anglia is going to be under water, yet here I am slowly freezing to death. Clearly the scientists are […]
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