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Somewhere over the rainbow, weigh a pie

‘It’s not only IT people that hum along to their work,’ says Steve Bowen, at Akzo Nobel Specialist Coatings. What a relief. People might start thinking that techies are weird.
‘We have made several top 40s of product and material-related songs and artists. My favourite is High On Emulsion. We even did a whole load using different species of timber (our division specialises in woodcare products), such as We Don’t Talk Sycamore.’ That’s the sort of quality wood humour we like.
George Tripp, at Northampton Borough Council, suggests: ‘When you’re writing a CD in an external drive: Bruce Springsteen’s Burn in the USB.’

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