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I found myself in a marginally stressful situation a few weeks ago. Half way to driving to a meeting on the M3, the fuel indicator came on and I suddenly had one of those "heart drops" moments as I realised that I had left my wallet at home in the pocket of another coat. To … Continue reading Tied to the physical

Project achievements this week included: - signing and (I hope) delivering a 3-year deal which sees a subscription model for Adobe tools at Imagination (Note to self: never to do a deal to close at the end of a financial quarter again. It's too stressful for the savings you might make...) - seing the AD … Continue reading Weeknote 40 – in which a deal was struck

The windows of the room that our home office currently occupies look out over the railway tracks that feed into Richmond railway station. Every time a train goes past, Oscar my 15-month-old son chimes "Choo! Choo!". We've taught him a language that comes from a form of technology (steam trains) that even I in my … Continue reading Extended metaphors

Debate was raging on Twitter yesterday at the news that the UK regulator Ofcom is to clamp down on ISPs advertising "up to" broadband connectivity speed claims. There are a couple of issues here that need to be unpacked a bit. The first is the advertising one. Advertising is the art of stretching the truth … Continue reading False advertising and old houses

For the first time, I'm starting to fear a bit about the innovation path for the Google Apps product lines. The last seven days have seen the release of two features that seem to show a gentle tacking towards turning the platform into an infrastructure to support more established Microsoft product lines: Google Cloud Connect … Continue reading Innovation inhibition

It has been squeaky-bum time for the Google engineers in the last 24 hours as a bug in a software update resulted in "0.02%" of GMail users staring at empty inboxes (see http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/gmail-back-soon-for-everyone.html). Already as a result I have seen articles claiming that this shows that cloud isn't to be trusted. (Although as a side … Continue reading Designing to fail

Project achievements this week included: - finding a sponsor for our UC initiative "Facilitating Conversations" - defining a new licencing framework with Adobe - knuckling down with a deployment plan for AD And also: - presented at the Cloud Circle networking event - had interesting conversations with Charterhouse and Vodafone - completed objective setting for … Continue reading Weeknote 39 – in which we neared agreement

As my family is growing, it's sadly become necessary to let some of the children of a former relationship fly the nest. The following are available to adopt: Akai MPC2000 It might look like a cash register, but inside beats the heart of the best sampling workstation in history. Expanded to 12MB at a time … Continue reading Music kit looking for a new home

For the past months or so I've been using a great little service called Hullomail. It provides a voicemail service, a mobile app, and integration into email and, as a result, I now have a level of independence from any particular mobile phone device or mobile operator as I can now receive notification of missed … Continue reading Separation