There was a documentary on TV last year about the scandalous way in which old computer and electronic equipment is disposed of. It showed how obsolete equipment got loaded into shipping containers and ended up in Africa, India and China. Here unscrupulous organizations paid local people a pittance to extract valuable metals from the old [...]

The last time the clocks changed to summertime I did my rounds of all the various timekeeping devices before going to bed. This all went smoothly until I got to the cooker clock. No matter which buttons I pressed the clock wouldn’t change. There are 6 buttons in all and I must have tried every [...]

It was the year 1991 and the office interiors business I ran with my business partner bought its first premises. At last we had enough space for a proper office and we fitted it out with a large desk arrangement with the main desk each at the front and a smaller return unit on one [...]

On your marks Get set Stop! When you have the wrong office chair it’s like getting off to a false start in a race. You’re ready to get on with things and yet something is holding you back. And the problem is your chair, but it’s not that obvious. How can your office chair distract [...]