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You find me in slightly GRUMPY mood this morning, a mood i think i probably share with quite a few of my FELLOW ENGLISHERS. My thoughts on the matter are THIS: we've tried a Foreign Manager, we've tried and English Manager, SURELY now is the time and get someone BRITISH, but not ENGLISH? Maybe Northern Irish?

And in other news - it would be nice to be AGHAST at the stupidity going on with these CDs full of DATA that have got lost, but instead here is some COST SAVING ADVICE for Public Sector Management who think that removing data would be TOO EXPENSIVE.

1. Save a copy of the data you wish to send out.
2. Open the copy.
3. Right-click on the header for column containing the data you want to remove.
4. Left-click "Delete".
5. Repeat until all offending columns are removed, then save and close the file.
6. Burn the file onto a CD, remembering to password protect it*.
7. Delete the copy.

That's be FIFTY THOUSAND QUID please, The Government!

* I have occasionally needed to get data from Government Departments for PROFESSIONAL REASONS, which is why i'm pretty sure that the data they've lost will be in an Excel Spreadsheet. They DID always password protect it, but would often forget to let us know what the password was - one time I asked if they could possibly pass this information on to us, and they kindly did so... by writing the password on the CD.

GRUMPINESS LEVELS: NOT DECREASING.

posted 22/11/2007 by MJ Hibbett

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