Office Chatter

I think of ink cartridges as containing ink that looks on great on paper, but shouldn't ever be swallowed. However, with the right cartridges you can print on your cake and eat it.

Most of us want our ink cartridges to last a long time, but sometimes they live longer than we ever imagined.

It's time for the CBI to break the mould and maybe pick someone from small business to run the show, according to business leader Lord Jones. Director General Richard Lambert is stepping down early and Digby Jones, who had the job before Lambert, has told the press the CBI needs  to 'break the mould and appoint a woman, someone from an ethnic minority background or from the world of small businesses as a successor'.

The other day I read that in the '60s Jim Henson, the Muppet's creator, had made adverts for IBM.

I found it hard to reconcile the idea that characters from my childhood had been used to sell computers; that they were espousing the benefits of desktops and workstations and so on. So, I went looking for confirmation and headed to YouTube.