Guru

There's cynical, and then there's CYNICAL.

Why, only last week Guru met up with his arch enemy Peter Gold, author of the Hire Strategies e-recruitment blog.

It was a Christmas in the trenches moment. Hostilities were temporarily suspended for a truce, while the enemies shared tidings of goodwill.

One of the many blogging issues discussed was the brilliance of Jessica Hagy' Indexed blog. Guru has long admired Hagy's work and has written about her clever Venn diagrams a couple of times.

But Gold's ears didn't really prick up until Guru revealed that Personnel Today has tried on a number of occasions to persuade Ms Hagy to supply her illustrations to the magazine for a sizeable fee.

Sadly for Personnel Today, Hagy has thus far ignored its overtures.

But it seems that Gold believes he can fill the vacuum and has started producing jottings of his own on pink Post-it notes.

Sadly for Gold, his child-like scribbles have no artistic merit and no monetary value, and he will not be getting a contract from Personnel Today. It is unlikely that even People Management would be interested (and they'll usually publish any old crap).

So Guru is sorry to announce that Gold has not struck gold. Perhaps he should stick to what he's good at - being rude to eminent human resources Gurus. Let battle recommence.