Ep164: Fail, with Andrew Barrett

Ep164: Fail, with Andrew Barrett

LISTEN:   In 1853, two things happened.  First, a sickening but stubborn number of people died in big cities around the world when the elevator they were travelling in crashed to the lowest floor, after the rope that pulls it up and down broke.  And, in...
Ep160: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Alt+V+E, with Andrew Barrett

Ep160: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Alt+V+E, with Andrew Barrett

LISTEN:   Fellow nerds (or maybe just fellow spreadsheet aficionados), did you recognise what each of the keyboard shortcuts are in the title of this episode? Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+Alt+V+E? These seemingly innocuous actions might make the all the difference between...
Ep150: Rethinking redundancy, with Andrew Barrett

Ep150: Rethinking redundancy, with Andrew Barrett

LISTEN:   I’m sorry Mr. Barrett, your position has been made redundant.  Redundancy is a word quite familiar to health and safety people, we use it in good times, and we fear it in bad times.  And I think we always have the wrong end of the stick,...