Once upon a time there was a nasty misanthropic man who very few people could tolerate for any length of time.
The NMM developed a particular set of skills (rickety and unevenly deployed, it is true, but a set nonetheless). These particular skills were around the submitting of Freedom of Information Act requests to public bodies.
And the NMM would often turn these findings into reports, or letters to newspapers, or blogs or whatever.
And the Earth went round the Sun, and the carbon dioxide continued to accumulate in the atmosphere, trapping more heat and dooming the hairless apes to imminent extinction.
And the NMM moved from Manchester, where he had toiled for two decades, and thought that the particular set of skills would turn to rusty old things in the garden shed.
It was not to be. For once in his long life, the NMM was wrong. For reasons now lost in the mists of time, he submitted a FOIA to Greater Manchester Combined Authority about how their “Your Homes Better” retrofit scheme was going.
And rather than give honest answers, they decided to yank him around.
And the NMM thought about those tools. No, not the tools at GMCA, but rather the rusting tools in the proverbial garden shed. And he decided to re-up, learn some new data management skills (a grand way of saying, using a spreadsheet) and see if he could improve his data presentation skills (videos, press releases, etc).
Not because the skills are useful (they are) and doing it might inspire and/or instruct others (it might, but this late in the game, it’s not like it will make the smallest difference), but, well, for the lulz. Stricktly for the lulz.
JumboPeeps? Really?
The FOIA number was 7471669.
So, 747 – the first Jumbo Jet.
1669 – the year Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary.
manchester climate monthly 