What can you really rely upon? The morning news from the BBC or CNN? Though I do remember during a big storm in 1988 the BBC news was broadcast from the Play school studio. In general though the gap between my perception and expectation of a product and reality grows ever larger. Our company has business continuity insurance which I specifically took out in case our broadband line was cut for a long period of time as it was in 2002 when a over enthusiastic digger took out 5 metres of cabl...

Most HR managers genuinely believe strategically planned staff training play a major role in addressing the challenges inevitable in the wake of an economic slowdown. These same managers would also genuinely agree that in practice IT training is one the first budgets to be cut during economic downturn after freezing recruitment. (Just in case a definition: A recession is when the economy shrinks for 2 consecutive quarters. A depression is when the economy shrinks by more than 10%). If you d...