Improve the Improvments

At work we have an "Employee Suggestion Programme" called "Thinking Caps". However for the next coupld of weeks they are having a special promotion, with a draw at the end for TVs and DVDs. The theme of the promotion? Improving the "Thinking Caps Programme".

I quote:

• Suggested themes for new promotions


• Suggestions for improving the participation rate - Focus Groups? Training Courses? Teams? Other Ideas?


• Suggestions to improve the Thinking Caps intranet site?


• Suggestions to improve the quality of submissions


• Suggestions to improve the evaluation process


• Suggestions for better promotion of the programme


• Suggestions arising from your previous experience of such programmes elsewhere

How recursive is that?

I wonder if the promotion came about because someone suggested it.

Incidently, I submitted about ten ideas over the course of a year. The only one that was accepted was a suggestion to improve the "Thinking Caps" intranet site (which, as far as I can tell, hasn't been implemented yet).

Falling Down

LiveJournal wouldn't let me in for a while this morning, reporting a database error. I suspect it wasn't just me that was getting it. It seemed to start just after I sent a test email to my livejournal email address, so it must have been my fault.

Sorry everyone.

Gmail Spam

Here's a strange one. Someone I don't know has sent me Gmail invite code. Or perhaps someone knows who's secret alias is Sgni Thonnessen is? It's a bit confusing.

It did occour to me that it could be a hoax to try to grab personal information, but the URL is definitely gmail.google.com.

Anyway, since I already have a Gmail account, I have no need of another. So if anyone wants an invite code, reply or drop me an email. Not that they're exactly hard to come by these days.