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Makes sense to me. I know the gutter press will deride it as a degree in how to flip a burger, but the actual management of the stores - carrying the can for customer service, keeping on top of stock control, monitoring and negotiating employee issues, dealing with a crisis and so on - yep, I can see how that range of practical experience could contribute to a Business Management degree. After all, they've got to teach their managers to do all that stuff anyway, so why not get the course materials accredited?

And for the kids doing it, they earn their way through their degree, with an employer who is guaranteed to let them fit their shift patterns to their course requirements, and at the end of it, they're a reasonable way up the ladder of a *huge* multinational, have decent job security, or a transferable qualification with accompanying real-world experience if they want to apply for jobs elsewhere. That's quite a hefty advantage over all those fresh graduates spending a year on the dole and eventually applying for the burger-flipping at the age of 22.

I'd quite like to work for McDonalds, if it wasn't for the rather obvious practical barrier to the principle (which I believe in and would not wish to bypass) of starting in the kitchen.

Hurrah! Glad to hear you're all okay.

At the risk of stating the obvious, I think it depends how frequent they are and what the content is like.

Amazon, eBay and PayPal send me rubbish several times a week - emails full of promotions for stuff I'm not that interested in purchasing. I don't even bother to read it any more - I just delete it unread. If they ever have anything important to tell me chances are I won't notice.

There's also a smaller, more independent shop I used once who send out a fairly infrequent newsletter (good) that simply isn't interesting (bad). I'm sure they're thrilled about having taken on a new member of staff/adopted an office cat/raised

Not quite as smoothly as hoped, then! How frustrating... still, looks like you've already found the positives, nicely done

Gah. Why do Google do this? Why???

If I wanted to have every ****hole on the internet able to click my profile and see where I am, where I live, what I'm listening to and where my favourite restaurants are... I would join bloody Facebook!

They did it with Buzz as well, at least this one existing Google Accounts users get to choose whether or not they want to use it.

I think it's the whole thing about testing it in a corporate environment. If I worked for a big company, it wouldn't give me a panic attack if my colleagues could click on my name and see where I hang out, because anyone dicking about with that information via internal work networks would be logged and therefore at risk of losing their job if they used the information inappropriately. So everyone behaves well. But that doesn't translate to the outside world, with /b/, proxy servers and sock puppet accounts.

Best of luck with that. Hope everything goes smoothly.

Yes - sorry - I meant the blog version. IIRC you've had that profile pic since before November.

See, I think Windows 3.11 For Dummies is a better choice for the question they're asking.

Tolstoy's novels are a rightful part of the history of literature - he was one of the truly great novelists of the 19th century or even of all time. But if I say I absolutely love Anna Karenina, what does that tell you about me, or about my life? Buggerall, except it opens the possibility that I'm trying to show off. Tell me your life was shaped by Windows For Dummies, Tom Clancy novels and the Just William series and suddenly I'll understand a lot more about you...

No, no I am not.

Although if that's a current picture of you, then bloody well-played.

I think there will be a lot of posers claiming that their five books are, well, for example, the complete works of Karl Marx.

No one is going to stand up and say "actually, Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code changed my life, and Victoria Beckham's autobiography Learning To Fly had a big impact on my personal philosophy too!" If they do, they're likely to get sat on by the self-styled intelligentsia.