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Director of IT @BirkbeckUoL, Dad, Drinker of tea, Describer of my own views.

Joined February 2010
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Replying to @SW_Help
@SW_Help I appreciate that the mess was caused by thoughtless idiots and not you - but is there a reason why the 7:42 service from WAL to WAT is littered with the excesses of “the night before”? - it clearly hasn’t been cleaned, there are empties everywhere.
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CX on @BBCr4today - financially illiterate or deliberately misleading?… “halving inflation… that’s not a 1p tax cut that’s a 5p boost in their real disposable income” - absolute rubbish - it is simply a reduced rate of *decrease* in the value of their disposable income.
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Replying to @easyJet
@easyJet - you appear to have updated your online self-service and now it is not clear how to tell if hold luggage has been booked. Can you tell me where to see this now?
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Replying to @MicrosoftTeams
@MicrosoftTeams is there a reason why you have removed the “high” background noise suppression option in #MicrosoftTeamsRooms - it used to work really well. It is now on/off… and “on” leaves a lot to be desired!
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Replying to @MSFT365Status
@MSFT365Status - is there a problem this morning? Documents are taking a long time to open from sharepoint - often initially failing and requiring multiple browser refreshes. Ditto with Forms.
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But what on earth does it even mean?…
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How many members of the @UCISA_CISG committee can you get in the lift at #cisgpcmg22 ?
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My 6 year old is about to see the 4th PM in his lifetime. I was 25 when I reached the same milestone. So glad we avoided that chaos with @Ed_Miliband 🙄
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Replying to @ChrisMasonBBC
@ChrisMasonBBC - just listening to you discussing booster rocket analogies on @BBCr4today… aren’t many filmed being recovered from the sea, and then at great cost refurbished, refuelled and reused?…
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Replying to @Google
@Google I have no idea how you expect customers to keep paying you. You say my payment needs fixing - but nothing works. You say I need to verify my ID - but no response to my information provided - and I can’t contact your support - because subscription isn’t active. Help!
Come and work with us! We are currently advertising three roles in IT Services at Birkbeck, System Analyst and Lead System Analyst roles looking at our core corporate information system (SITS - student system) - analyzing, designi…lnkd.in/e8Ryq6VV lnkd.in/ePJbzQJg
Thanks @Gatwick_Airport parking - you have been significantly more customer focussed than our airline this week - refunding our parking straight away after @easyJet cancelled our flight while en route to Madeira - citing wind that prevented them landing (although others could?!)
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This government’s assault on the diverse media is abhorrent. It is purely based on ideology. Stop the privatisation of Channel 4 @NadineDorries. Why are you and your colleagues hell-bent on destroying British success? Sign the Petition! chng.it/mgRh8GwV via @UKChange
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Replying to @yeovalley
@yeovalley first world problems I know - but you have a problem with printing used yeoken codes on your yoghurt sleeves. Thought it was me, but it must have happened 10 times over the last year now…
Gordon Bennett - another day of waiting…. Groundhog Gray.
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This is a parody isn’t it?!….
📢 '...put unwanted newspapers in the bin...' This is one example of the announcements that we're getting rid of, making the passenger experience better and delivering on the Williams-Shapps #PlanForRail. Read more on announcements we’re removing 👇 gov.uk/government/news/unnec…
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Reading about the apparent Tory plotting… and can’t help thinking this is unlikely to be the first time the inevitable outcome of too many drinks will be blamed on a “bad pie”
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If you are in charge of making some (frankly pretty simple) rules, spend a significant proportion of your time explaining the rules, and yet your excuse for flagrantly breaking said rules is ‘nobody told you’… I politely suggest you are not capable enough to be in the job
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