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Enron, the energy company that collapsed last month and left a lot of people in a lot of financial trouble, has been auctioning off the contents of its London premises this week. The prices haven’t been much short of market values, but the New York Post has done an interesting piece on some of the items that could have been found in the five-storey building overlooking Buckingham Palace, including:

• A gym

• Aromatherapy suite
• 12 cafes
• 4,000 flat screen monitors
• 50 plasma TVs
• A model train set with 50 pieces of track used to deliver bonus cheques to executives around the building

Quite how such an enormous company can fall so inelegantly from grace is truly baffling.

I had my own mini fall from grace on the breakfast show this morning. Right at the start Petrie said hello after a very impressive introduction and for some reason my mind shot back about six months to when Sandy (now presenting drivetime) was still on breakfast. So, it seemed perfectly natural to say ‘Hello Sandy’ and when Petrie said ‘Sandy?’ I was completely baffled.

My mind went blank and I didn’t have a clue what was going on. Fortunately she rescued the situation with a joke about the fact it was early in the morning and the interview went OK.

This evening’s show was, fortunately, much better. Gordon was back after a couple of weeks away, so it was only the third show we had done together since Christmas. We cut down on the number of guests so that we could do a full half hour of phone calls and emails as we’ve done less of them in the last few weeks. Phone calls are always my favourite bit of the show.

Steve did his web site of the week spot and picked out a site full of stupid patents, including a device for blowing out candles on a birthday cake.

It looked like a plastic hamster.

I received the most poorly-worded disclaimer on the bottom of an email today. Clearly the company that sent it hadn’t shown it to their lawyers.

If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful.

So, if this email wasn’t supposed to be for you, it’s illegal for you to do anything with it. Likewise, it’s illegal for you NOT to do anything with it. So that would make it illegal just for it to arrive in your inbox.

Hmmm.

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