Cooooooo-eeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! Have you missed me??????
As you may
have noticed I have not been around much. As some of you know I have been
involved with a secret project. Well actually, I had the chance of a secondment
to small little Government Department called Her Majesty’s Treasury. It
appeared that HMT had got into a bit of bother, like most other Departments, they
had lost lots of experienced staff in recent restructuring. Things had got so
bad at HMT that they had lost all expertise in replacing the toner cartridges
to their antiquated printers and were desperate for my skills! Ironic really
that the Department with all the money are still relying on the old workhorse
which is the beloved HP Laserjet III(D). This D is for Duplex printing for those who
don’t know!
My
secondment was timed to cover the busy period when the budget was made-up.
Wowsers - those guys at HMT do get through a lot of paper every day. I was kept
on my toes I can tell you. In the last few months I have had to change 3 toner
cartridges. Luckily I had lots of help and would formally like to thank the
ginger haired young lad with the funny voice –I think his name is Danny and
assume he is on some sort of work experience from a National Park or some other
small single function body. I would also
like to thank everyone for being so friendly but gosh you guys work hard – you should
come to Eland House for a rest!... oh and finally the SpAds are different.. (almost)
professional without the air of supercilious arrogance that I sadly I had been
accustomed too.
I will
hopefully be back at Eland House soon and will start making sure that Uncle
Eric and his cronies are held to account (or at least ridicule). In the mean
time I was intrigued to see that a few of my and others blogs and FoI requests
relating to Opera Solution, Gardant Communications and Nick Sheridan-Westlake made Private Eye
and the LGC last month.
First
mention of Opera Solutions and how dodgy research has been used in July 2011:
Next blog
where questions are asked about meetings and emails between Nick
Sheridan-Westlake and Nick Vaughan at Gardant Communications:
And finally
when Mr Edward Rudolf asked about email communications between Gardant
Communication and DCLG. This request was asked in September but not supplies
until January – just enough time for Nick to delete his emails?!
I am sure this will not be the last of this. Ben Goldacre did the initial demolition job on Opera's work (linky) and this was then taken up expertly by Radio4's More or Less.... but comrades the real story is about poor Nick-Nick...so keep digging....
I'll be back.. sadly
Derek
