Experts, eh? What do they know?

[Spartacus]

It will be very difficult to prove whether Madeleine McCann is the young girl in a photograph taken in Morocco, a facial recognition expert has warned.

Dr Rob Jenkins, a psychologist at the University of Glasgow, agreed the picture looked "similar" to images of the missing British child.

However, he cautioned that there were thousands of young girls fitting Madeleine's description.

Okay, maybe so. But just heard on Radio Five Live that an enterprising journo from a Spanish TV channel has gone to the village the child was spotted in with a copy of the photo and asked if anyone there knew who the family snapped was. It being a small place he was quickly shown to the house where they lived and there was the child, clearly not the missing Madeleine McCann.

The moral of the story, applicable to IT contractors as well as missing child cases: Sometimes you can over-analyse a problem.

[Churchill]

Okay, maybe so. But just heard on Radio Five Live that an enterprising journo from a Spanish TV channel has gone to the village the child was spotted in with a copy of the photo and asked if anyone there knew who the family snapped was. It being a small place he was quickly shown to the house where they lived and there was the child, clearly not the missing Madeleine McCann.

The moral of the story, applicable to IT contractors as well as missing child cases: Sometimes you can over-analyse a problem.

They won't find the girl until they start looking in the foundations at the nearby building site...

[dotnetter]

clearly not the missing Madeleine McCann.

Or was it????????

Dun Dun Duuuuuuuuuuuun.....

[Spartacus]

Or was it????????

Dun Dun Duuuuuuuuuuuun.....

I bet it was Old Man Withers, the hermit on the hill (aka Chico).

[NickFitz]

Or was it????????

Dun Dun Duuuuuuuuuuuun.....

I bet it was Old Man Withers, the hermit on the hill (aka Chico).

Surely it was you?

[King Cnvt]

Okay, maybe so. But just heard on Radio Five Live that an enterprising journo from a Spanish TV channel has gone to the village the child was spotted in with a copy of the photo and asked if anyone there knew who the family snapped was. It being a small place he was quickly shown to the house where they lived and there was the child, clearly not the missing Madeleine McCann.

The moral of the story, applicable to IT contractors as well as missing child cases: Sometimes you can over-analyse a problem.

I thought the same thing when I read the "experts" were going to spend weeks analysing the grainy, out of focus photo - why don't they just go back to the village the shot was taken and speak to people there and find the girl?

Maybe I'm not cut out for this IT contractor lark....

[NotAllThere]

Maybe I'm not cut out for this IT contractor lark....

No you're not. You just cut a good 3 month contract down to a single a day.

[Dundeegeorge]

You're presuming that he wouldn't still charge the 3 months for the one day's work.

[Spartacus]

Surely it was you?

Not quite. He was me.

[Spartacus]

You're presuming that he wouldn't still charge the 3 months for the one day's work.

Quite. Us real businessmen (rather than the many permatemps on the board) quote for completing a job within a deadline. The time actually spent is irrelevant to the client.