2024-07-03
Martin Geddes pays another visit to his alma mater, where his visit prompted a discourse for our benefit on the remarkable spell that this venerable institution seemingly still labours under, unawares.
Unawares that is except for the maintenance personnel that actually still make it functional, in its misguided way.
Personally I find the greatest difficulty in accepting that some people really are incapable of seeing past the nonsense of the day to identify the underlying causes, but then I was schooled in the unforgiving world of computing, where such a handicap would have led to a change of employment in relatively short order. Also I never strayed far from the low end of development / implementation to the more remunerative but foggier heights of consultancy, salesmanship, and occasionally, straight BS. Of course that is not to impune honest consultants and salespersons, merely to observe that a proportion might certainly be considered to have fine-tuned too far their offerings ... caveat emptor.
And so to Pembroke College, Oxford
