Of all the poems I was made to learn at school, few have remained with me as much as Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur. I cannot help but be moved by the opening lines: “So all day long the noise of battle rolled, among the mountains by the winter sea”. Lovers of legend will remember how the fatally… Read More »
My favourite misquotation is “money is the root of all evil” or for those of you with a Latin bent, “radix malorum est cupiditas.” The correct quotation of the words from the King James Bible, 400 years old almost to the day, is in 1 Timothy 6.10. “For the love of money is the root… Read More »
One of the wonders of the Internet is that almost anything you care to look for is there, somewhere! Not just historical facts, political articles, scientific treatises and the like but almost anything you care to think about. Has anyone noticed how many people were away from the office in the past few days? The… Read More »
It is that time of year again at Millnet Towers. Last year, Millnet offered £10,000 worth of processing of electronic documents completely free. As a result, a number of law firms were able to move on pieces of litigation which had previously become stuck because of the costs associated with e-disclosure. Amongst those were two… Read More »
Why is a raven like a writing desk? Dreams are like that! Poor Alice was confronted by a dysfunctional tea party where the Hatter ruled the roost, made outrageous personal remarks and asked questions to which there was never an answer and everyone moved randomly around the table trying to disturb the sleeping dormouse in… Read More »