Apparently it's a more subtle training exercise than I credited: if you do click a link you get a telling off from IT, and if you flag/report the email as suss you get a congratulatory email. But since both just generate more email I'm going to stick with deletion.

It's a whole haircare package, this place.

It's a good excuse!

And time-pressured—he basically had a couple of hours to do this. OK, maybe we can give the guy a break.

No fikarum. Sob.

Oh god I had no idea that existed and I am now going to try my very best to forget it. I politely refuse to imagine it.

Whenever Alain de Botton is booked, quoted, or otherwise invoked, it's a sure sign that whoever is doing the invoking knows fuck all about philosophy, is too lazy or ignorant to bother finding out more, and has just summoned the only name that comes to mind.

Ah yeah, I think even in my advanced state of middle-age technology bufuddlement I can manage that.

I'm having trouble with the age verification thing to use private messages, which ironically makes me feel old. Anyway: the brief trip this week was hectic, so I'll be in touch (somehow!) when I properly finally move, very late August/early September.