Since the dawn of civilisation man has sought to make sense of his world by attempting to set down the laws by which mankind’s fate is determined.
Now at last, after years of intellectual endeavour and sitting about idly chatting, Clay’s Laws will be revealed as the guiding hand that set down all our destinies.
Step by step, the time spent listening to the profound lyrics of The Beatles, watching England and Yorkshire cricket and the years spent at Britain’s smallest university will be shown not to have been a complete waste of time.
IT WAS FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY
And to prove it, here is the book. An affectionate and amusing look back at the early 1980s through the prism of life as a first-year student at Britain’s smallest university. These memoirs reveal the shocking lack of mobile phones, internet and social media, through which we not only survived but thrived. Leaving Sheffield to…
Every upgrade makes things worse
Of course it does. That’s what they are for. You’re quite happy with your product or service, hence you won’t buy a new one. So, there’s every incentive to give you exciting new features such as coverage of domestic second division marbles tournaments on sports tv packages or the ability to project 3D image of fruit…
Bad weather
The modern world of cutting edge technology that has required billions of pounds of investment has freed the economy of its vulnerability to the weather. Never again will our lives and livelihoods be at the mercy of the seasons. Except it hasn’t, has it? Think about it; the servers sat in the desert in the…
BAD WEATHER
It’s often said that in Britain we are not properly prepared for bad weather. Whilst there is some truth in this, there is a category of staff that has a routine perfected over decades. With some staff adopting a “keep calm and carry on” attitude, they will battle against the worst the British weather can…
IF IT’S WORKING, LEAVE IT ALONE
Ah, but, if you just move this over there, unplug that and move it there, connect up that to this, and then put that in the corner, your desk would make you so much more efficient, you’d save 0.3 seconds a day. Count the number of 0.3 seconds saved that you require to make up…
ALL IT PRODUCTS ARE MADE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO MAKE THEM
So startlingly obvious, this statement should not really require elaboration. We were quite happy with our vinyl, but no, we had to have CDs. With those came the tyranny of the “bonus tracks”. Why? For years, decades people have enjoyed their favourite albums, works of art crafted by the original performers. But now some 23…