All fine, but if the presentation is to a bunch your colleagues you may want to tone down the practice a little. There is nothing wrong with a slapdash presentation when it's needed. The presentation should match the audience. Maybe you've only got a couple of hours from concept to presentation, they don't all need the same polish.

The number of appalling spreadsheets I've seen is incalculable, but no one wants to get rid of Excel. I would put this down to Unconscious Incompetence, most people don't know how bad they are at presenting.

We're moving to the US style "Previously in the episode..." "Coming up..." at the start and end of advert breaks for factual shows unfortunately, large chunks of the programme showing what we've just seen, or will see in a couple of minutes. I don't know if this is to save money, or if they genuinely think the audience is too stupid to remember something they just saw.

They beat Ireland and Scotland in the World Cup (Cricket that is, not football)

Then you haven't met someone who dealt it then... (a bit of British humour - when someone asks "who farted" the reaction is usually - "Those who smelt it, dealt it", quickly followed by "Those who denied it, supplied it" I'll agree with "shoon", and I only hear "shod" when talking about horses.

Which I and George Mombiot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot#cite_note-Monbiot2011-45) welcome. Nuclear fuel is probably the only way to go that we have now. And if Fukushima has shown anything it is that an old outdated plant can have all the disasters it has had thrown at it, and cause so little damage, imagine how safe the newer reactors will be.

I remember a sketch a very long time ago from "KYTV" it was a parady version of "John Craven's Newsround" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... a new programme for kids. Anyway it was discussing the US political system thus: "The Republican party, which are like our Conservative party ..." "...and the Democratic Party, which is like our Conservative party" to us brits, the US extreme left would be somewhere near our Labour Party after Tony Blair.

Companies in this country, and the one in question (both the UK) do not have a sole obligation to provide a return for shareholders, to quote the FT (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a7319a86-cc5f-11e2-bb22-00144feab7de.html#axzz3KwTHMDBP) "they must have regard to six specific factors: the long-term consequences of their decisions, the interests of employees, relationships with suppliers and customers, the impact of corporate activities on the community and the environment, the company’s reputation for high standards of business conduct and the need for fairness between different members of the company."

We've been known to arrest real presidents at the behest of European countries never mind piddling little vice presidents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Augusto_Pinochet

True the UK always fights extradition requests from the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003

That'll be the lizards...

osteopath != chiropractor.

How many people download copies of films, T.V. programmes and music that they already own in another format? I often wonder about the relative morality of this. It's possible to argue that you don't purchase a copy of the work, just a licence to consume. Between you and me it's much easier to nip across to TPB and grab a copy of something I own on vinyl than to copy the original into whatever format I want to use.