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[SimonMac]

Have realised my social diary is completely empty. Nada, zilch, nothing. Not just for the festive season, but to infinity, and beyond...

Grub club lol?

[NickFitz]

And why hasn't your chimp got a Santa hat?

Never does

[NickFitz]

Opening the Cadbury's Fingers that ClientCorp left on my desk the other week to celebrate the completion of the workplace survey I didn't participate in

[mudskipper]

Grub club lol?

Indeedy, that was what I was thinking. Need something to look forward to.

[NickFitz]

The BBC News site gave me the opportunity to look at their new design and say what I thought. Usually I'm OK with redesigns, but this was wretched

Example: if I'm on the home page of the current site and want to see if there are any new headlines about my region, I click on "England" in the main navigation and scroll down, where the regions map remembers my selection of "East Midlands"; and the headlines are right there.

New version: no "England" link in the main nav, so I have to go "UK" then "England". Then "Regions" are a separate link in the sub-navigation at the top of the page. Click on that, and it gives me a list of regions. Click on East Midlands and I'm finally there.

Lengthening the path taken to reach particular categories of content by showing more limited options at every step can in no way be described as an improvement

[mudskipper]

Never does

Is that 'coz your photoshop skillz aren't up to it?

[zeitghost]

Just finished watching "Olive Kitteridge".

Best line in it, from OK to Bill Murray:

I'm just waiting for the dog to die so I can shoot myself

It must be said that it was a pretty slow 4.5 hours all in all, and I'm not quite sure where it went.

[zeitghost]

Think I'm going to have to put mother's pills into the timed catfood dispenser dish...

What you gotta do, you gotta do.

[NickFitz]

Is that 'coz your photoshop skillz aren't up to it?

Because my festive gaiety isn't up to it

Bah! Humbug!

[mudskipper]

The BBC News site gave me the opportunity to look at their new design and say what I thought. Usually I'm OK with redesigns, but this was wretched

Example: if I'm on the home page of the current site and want to see if there are any new headlines about my region, I click on "England" in the main navigation and scroll down, where the regions map remembers my selection of "East Midlands"; and the headlines are right there.

New version: no "England" link in the main nav, so I have to go "UK" then "England". Then "Regions" are a separate link in the sub-navigation at the top of the page. Click on that, and it gives me a list of regions. Click on East Midlands and I'm finally there.

Lengthening the path taken to reach particular categories of content by showing more limited options at every step can in no way be described as an improvement

My mate (an Andyw! ) is in charge(? definitely heavily involved in) BBC searchy stuff. Not sure if this comes under his remit. Will provide feedback