Hello, hello, back again. After having done something like 150 of these Updates, it’s a wonderful thing to have a team that can not only dep on Update duty from time to time, but even volunteers for it sometimes. I […]
Author Archives: Mark Polson
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May
May
So how would we rate the last couple of Updates then? I thought Scott’s was very good. Didn’t read Mike’s. Only kidding. I was indeed at my first industry awards do for – I think – four years last week, […]
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Apr
Apr
A shorter than usual Update this week, siblings, as many of you will have been plagued by us already with communications about the beta launch of MPS Analyser to sit alongside Platform Analyser. And we certainly don’t want to test […]
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Apr
Apr
It gets earlier every year, doesn’t it? I still remember fondly the years of midnight deadlines, getting applications time-stamped so that they could be keyed as if they were from the day before, and the hunted look all round as […]
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Mar
Mar
So I was going to have a week off the Update, but it’s been a busy old week and so I thought I’d jot down a couple of musings on the news of the day, or yesterday when you read […]
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Mar
Mar
First things first, thank you to those who wrote last week to check on my health. I’m pleased to say that about 80% of correspondents just took the mick, but 20% or so were genuinely solicitous. To them I send […]
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Mar
Mar
I don’t mean to frighten anyone but I’ve god a gold id by dose and am currently the sickest I’ve ever been like ever and no-one has ever been sicker than me even if they say they have. It’s not […]
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Mar
Mar
In amongst the permacrisis, a ray of light at the lang cat Port Authority yesterday. Most of the team – which incredibly numbers 21 now – found their way to the People’s Republic of Leith and we did a proper […]
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Mar
Mar
Some weeks there’s no place for whimsy. Two hours and 40 minutes flight time away things are going on this minute that render jokes pointless, to a country full of brilliant, utterly bonkers people who couldn’t deserve it any less. […]
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Feb
Feb
So here we are, it’s nearly the end of February already and 2022 is shaping up to be really quite the year round the lang cat Port Authority. Hope it is for you too. Although I do appreciate that for […]