For anyone who likes this sort of deviousness, then the English comedy series 'Yes Minister!' and 'Yes, Prime Minister' are well worth watching.

There may even be episodes up on YouTube.

Nespresso here does accept recycle capsules for recycling.

Otherwise I just throw them into the metal/aluminium recycling bin.

The coffee-grounds do make great compost and are wasted when I do this though.

2 ideas on coffee:

My mother (now in her late sixties) is old-school. She makes a pot of coffee every morning with a filter into a thermos flask and brings...

I get emails about jobs with where they want people who just don't exist. Who would want them if they did exist? Anyone who is an expert at the whole...

Two important maxims that I learnt in school are: 'Know something about everything and everything about something' (thank you, James O'Brien) and 'Always be learning'.

Because one can't know everything about...

If you have the opportunity to do so, go the country in question and apply from there. You find many more jobs advertised there and you are less likely to...

Hi tindog,

I have only looked for work in a few countries and most of them in Europe.

In my experience, employers are primarily interested in the talent that they...

Hi Lynn,

Working from home is hard. I do it now and then when a child has an appointment at the doctor's and when my wife is not at home. It...

For me there are several variables at play.

After I finished university, I got the opportunity to go and live & work in Japan on the JET Programme. I was single...

Hi Steve,

I take two views on this: on the one hand, for work, we use a password generation program to create and store our server and login passwords. They are...

In my experience, the choice of RDBMS is a management decision (and often a senior management decision). DBAs and technical people are hired knowing this. It is rare that DBAs...

To be fair to PostgresSQL, it is a nice DB to work with. I haven't used it in a while though.

Essentially bigger customers are paying for smaller customers.

If they charged a flat fee, it would be great for the bigger customers (because they'd pay less) and bad for Microsoft (because...

I'd like to see a much more simplified licensing structure too — enterprise for everyone and charge license fees determined by a formula based on instance RAM and cores allocated...

Well, to be fair, I'd didn't expect them to put me on a data-warehouse project immediately. What I expected was that she'd be excited about it, let me organise a...