Hansom: What’s a man to do?

By Hansom2018-10-19T06:00:00

This week’s construction gossip: Not only are women refusing to put up with any more nonsense, but now a man can’t even trust his smartphone not to cause offence

Rear-ended

I was chatting to a technology type the other day who was lamenting the fact that the construction industry still uses the acronym “BIM” when describing matters digital, since it doesn’t give the full picture. And it seems there are other, less obvious, pitfalls. “From time to time my smartphone likes to spellcheck it as ‘BUM’,” he added. I don’t imagine that sort of thing is especially helpful when sending messages to the office, or clients for that matter.

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