Dyckhoff

Down the years I’ve always tried to purchase service products such as phone, mobile, internet, etc from folks that have a good customer reputation. That reputation is usually found out about via asking (days of yore) or bulletin boards (olden day…

There is a quote oft attributed to Mark Twain: “There are lies, damn lies and statistics“. I’ve always understood this to refer to the fact that one can make statistics read anyway you want them. Take a recent example that I found qui…

What does 1986 mean to you? – I was 23 (for most of it) – Some of the musical hits of 1986 were “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco and “Take my breath away” by Berlin. – Lovejoy made its first appearance, as did Bread and Brush Strokes….

Like me you were probably taught a second language at school. If you’re like me you probably didn’t pay a great deal of attention or even put in much effort. I was taught French from the age of 6 and to be honest I never saw the point of it…

How often do you start something and not finish it? Does it really matter though? When you remember that people will judge you by your actions and not your intentions it may help you put on a different spin. For the last 7 years I’ve had good int…

Today I had my latest grading. I am now the proud owner of a piece of red tape making me a “5th Gup” or “Green belt 1 Tag”. But at the start I felt like I wouldn’t be getting there due to having what my instructor calls a …

In my world of fantasy I’d be driving a McLaren F1 GTR. Knowing I couldn’t afford the insurance or even the first tank of fuel for it I think a more realistic car would be the Koenigsegg Agera. The only question is the standard or the R mod…

I’ve just tweeted the following: “I really detest when my colleague works on something he knows I’m already investigating. He’s always trying to one up me – NOT fun, no sir” But that doesn’t even begin to come …

Warning – this is a cathartic post and it may not make sense to you! At work, like most of you who work, I have to go through an annual review. Ours are based on a sliding scale from 1 to 7. With 1 being excellent, 4.5 is doing your job nothing m…

As a child I was tasked in a creative writing lessons to write to my future self. We were told to write what as if we were our future self describing what we were now doing. I’ve long since mis-placed / lost / destroyed the letter but I know that…