Cluck |
It's the little ironies that make life worth living, except if
you happen to be called Nigel De Noronah and you work as a systems
development manager in the Greater Manchester Probation Service.
And if that was too quick for you, Mole has it on good authority
that De Noronah is pronounced "done a runner".
Thanks to Paul Corcoran for that one, and thanks to Microsoft for most of the rest of life's more heart-warming moments. |
Thanks particularly to Mole's pal Oliver Roll, a Microsoft product
manager who found himself driving his hire car the wrong way up
a Seattle freeway on a recent trip to the US. And special thanks
to Ann Mitchard, she of the lustrous, career-limiting hair, who
was driving the car behind: she loyally followed her colleague
into the path of the oncoming traffic. If this is what Bill Gates
means by the road ahead, Mole is having none of it.
As a happy footnote to this sorry tale, pedestrians and other road-users will be glad to hear that, when Mr Roll returned from his American automotive adventure, his company car had been stolen from the airport long-stay car park. |
It may also cheer you up to hear that there is at least one person in the civilised world who has not heard of Bill Gates. It may be difficult to believe, but during a routine debate about Microsoft's world domination plans, a new recruit to the PC team at a large East Anglian manufacturing company asked: "Who's Bill Gates?" A sudden doubt strikes Mole: perhaps this wasn't ignorance, but irony. |