Golden Jirl

Be Like Mark

Let’s be honest, shall we? Just as some people are not suitable candidates for prime minister – like many of the prime minister’s we have ended up with over the years– – not everyone is a suitable candidate for working from home. Yes, Mark, the quiet guy at the office (doesn’t every office have a Mark?) who works away without needing to be told to get a move on is always going to do far better at this than overweight More

Tips for Useless Savers

I was always really good at saving money, but all that changed one day when I discovered that wondrous thing called “chocolate”. Suddenly, saving money was extremely difficult, and adding to my problem was the fact that when I was a child “Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory” was an absurdly popular film. Those were tough times!

I talk about chocolate in relation to this article (which is about the following blog post) because I was eating a bar More

Making A Difference

Business blogs, agh! Could they be any more boring than they already are? I highly doubt it. There is a set formula which is generally adhered to, and is the bed-rock of every boring business blog: pages and pages of dull, condensed, hard-to-read text, and the kind of graphics that fade in to the background, inducing a trance-like-state that threatens to never let you go.

OK, maybe I am jaded by looking at too many of these blogs, but that’s More

Funny Lots

Human-beings are a funny lot. Unlike other creatures, which are very aware of their surroundings and have an acute understanding of their environment, human-beings, for the most part seem to think that they can chuck any old crap into the environment / their bodies, and everything should work out perfectly OK. In other words, while so-called ‘stupid’ animals run about being odd and dumb, us humans, o-so-much more intelligent, do really clever things—if rockets aren’t clever I don’t know what More