What's annoying me today

I've got to the age of 55 not knowing how to create a spreadsheet and I'm not going to start now.

Good game, the DMC's I Have Never.

I've got to the age of 41 having never drunk a coffee and I'm not going to start now.

I do a lot of stuff that would once have been spreadsheet based in PowerBI, building/tapping into SQL databases and the like. It’s great and lets me do stuff that is orders of magnitude more powerful than excel alone. All well and good.. except that nobody else in my team can understand how they work , and if I leave they my employer will struggle to find someone else who can maintain these things (not because I am special, but because proficiency with other tools, even relatively popular MS ones, is still quite rare in my profession).

The fact that everyone knows how to use excel is why excel is often the right tool, even if it’s not the best one for the job. In most business settings better solutions require bringing in the IT pros to build out something.. but that tends to deliver robustness at the expense of creativity and flexibility. And those people are a limited resource.

Nicky?

Paul Grist is a terrific cartoonist. Look at this interplay of black and white.

Problem is most people still struggle to find the on button for their laptop.
Unleashing grist on them will be a problem.

And I know Tricky will be all over this, but most big corporations won't allow people to touch something like that.

I find IT departments similar to train operators, everything would work fine if it wasn't for those bloody users (passengers).

Its much less complex than its made out, as you probably know.

Latest edition of Mic-d Up (behind the big/controversial VAR decisions with big Howard Webb) out yesterday, covering Md22-26 (includes Forest's games on Jan 30 v Arse, Feb 4 v Bornmuff, Feb 10 v Newcastle, Feb 17 v West Ham).
We didn't feature.

(In fact, not a single game/decision involving Forest has featured on any of the shows so far this season, which, given some of the decisions against us, is a fcukin joke).

Too many difficult questions to answer if they did our games I suspect

Don't think I've seen it but presumably they only look at decisions that they got right, or at least can argue why they think they were right?

Which if that's the case says it all about our two pen decisions.

Half-term wankbags at the barbers causing a sizeable queue because they all want a 'skin-fade, mate'. Takes forever...

I hate it when that happens.