Last night whilst I was working on a white paper for the client I visited yesterday, I was watching a Dan Aykroyd movie, and I loved it. The movie was The Couch Trip, with a plot that involved a mental paitient escaping after taking a job as a psychiatrist. I know, sounds far fetched, but it does provide a large number of laughs… I am not sure I would watch it again, but it was funny.

As for the white paper… The client wanted it on monday at the latest so I thought it might create a good impression to get it done overnight… We will see what the client things. I still need to expand one section of it, but that is relatively minor, and needs thought more than anything else.

COMP.RISKS has an interesting story about a STAFF BOOKING SYSTEM for an AIRLINE.

In a Q&A session about our airline’s new staff travel online booking system,
the following was asked:

A. Because you joined in a leap year the system is unable to identify your
date of joining. You will need to ask Employee Services to change your date
to February 28 for staff travel purposes.

I certainly hope that there are not too many systems in the world that work like that. I was going to say that I find it strange that the system would need to know the start date for employment. Then I realised – this system includes employee travel for pleasure. Some airlines give higher priority to staff that who have worked for the company the longest. I guess the system assumes that every year has 365 days, and works out who started the earliest based on that. [Shakes head in wonder…]