Never Mind the Ballots

Oh, and whilst I am thinking about politics, there has been more scandal about the ballots in the Scottish elections in May.

The BBC News (Scotland) website has the details. It turns out that a large numbers of votes were rejected without scrutiny. Apparently, this is possibly illegal.

On the other hand, the error I thought most heinous wasn't acted on: the Scotsman must have got it wrong. (I know this since the Scotsman had said that a rejected vote on one part of the paper would cause the whole paper to be rejected; whilst what the BBC says happened is that a rejected vote on one part of the paper lead to the paper being placed in the "OK" pile if the other vote was valid - and hence not examined. I don't think I can have it both ways!)

And many thanks to white_hart for prompting my headline after she used something very similar recently!

Never Mind the Ballots

Oh, and whilst I am thinking about politics, there has been more scandal about the ballots in the Scottish elections in May.

The BBC News (Scotland) website has the details. It turns out that a large numbers of votes were rejected without scrutiny. Apparently, this is possibly illegal.

On the other hand, the error I thought most heinous wasn't acted on: the Scotsman must have got it wrong. (I know this since the Scotsman had said that a rejected vote on one part of the paper would cause the whole paper to be rejected; whilst what the BBC says happened is that a rejected vote on one part of the paper lead to the paper being placed in the "OK" pile if the other vote was valid - and hence not examined. I don't think I can have it both ways!)

And many thanks to white_hart for prompting my headline after she used something very similar recently!

Corporate Babble

Last week, on a corporate website, I read this:

" in short, can we use the board to drive policy learning to help us to stimulate the system change that will lead to a step change in achievement around the smarter outcomes?"

I have absolutely no idea what they were talking about. None at all. (Although frankie_ecap thought she understood it perfectly. I found this worrying...)

Along similar lines, today I read this:

" This strategy is set within the improvement agenda to provide momentum and structure for change".

Once more, baffled.

What’s worrying, though, is the thought I might actually write stuff similarly vacuous.

Lastly, I recently read a bottle of washing up liquid (the sad life I lead!) which promised:

"Hygenic Cleaning"

which just got me to wondering how many products were offering me unhygienic cleaning? Or am I missing something?

Corporate Babble

Last week, on a corporate website, I read this:

" in short, can we use the board to drive policy learning to help us to stimulate the system change that will lead to a step change in achievement around the smarter outcomes?"

I have absolutely no idea what they were talking about. None at all. (Although frankie_ecap thought she understood it perfectly. I found this worrying...)

Along similar lines, today I read this:

" This strategy is set within the improvement agenda to provide momentum and structure for change".

Once more, baffled.

What’s worrying, though, is the thought I might actually write stuff similarly vacuous.

Lastly, I recently read a bottle of washing up liquid (the sad life I lead!) which promised:

"Hygenic Cleaning"

which just got me to wondering how many products were offering me unhygienic cleaning? Or am I missing something?