Two and a half weeks into my new role now, and unfortunately have spent quite some time in the past few days in Kingston Hospital as my partner has required some treatment. At one point, when yet another paper form was being filled in by one of the extremely helpful nurses, she commented that (given both my partner … Continue reading Why a single NHS computer system is so scary…
Category: Themes
I've completed my search for a new job now... I've a couple of week's off before I get started, but will soon be going to work for Imagination. Thoroughly looking forward to the new challenges.
I haven't really explained the somewhat pompous title of this blog, so I thought I should. Over the past five years or so, I've increasingly seen the benefit of using metaphor as a way of being able to cut through what can otherwise seem to be insurmountable issues. It is often much easier to solve … Continue reading By way of explanation
Chris Anderson's article in this month's Wired seems to be making a case that massive data sets (and our ability to manipulate them) means that casuality is no longer relevant --- if you can find a corelation in data then that is all that is important. It depends on what you are trying to do... … Continue reading The importance of casuality
After a few years of taking part in the Summerburn, I've stumbled across (and joined) the International Mixtape Project...
So far it appears that there are three criteria to do this successfully... 1) go to somewhere vaguely interesting 2) don't forget to take your camera 3) don't rely on Yahoo Go to upload the photos
The combination of the updated software on my N82, Flickr and Yahoo Go, I should now be in a position to be able to upload geotagged photos to the web from anywhere where I can (afford to) connect to a mobile data network. See the results here.
After a pleasant week's holiday down in the South West of France, it's back to the task in hand. Technology has had a dramatic impact on the recruitment market in some respects - it's certainly a lot easier now to get to find out about opportunities through mass recruitment sites like monster, the open door … Continue reading Back to "work"
Had a session on Friday afternoon with Cisco, using their Telepresence system at Tower 42 in the City. It's an amazing experience in that, after a few minutes, you don't really notice that you are using the technology. It's the second time that I've used the system, and the first time got a bit more … Continue reading Telepresence at Tower 42
Time to start blogging again. Having realised that this now turns up on Google when my name is entered (yep, I'll put my hands up to occasional vanity surfing), it might well be being seen as a reflection on me. Which may be related to the fact that I'm now officially on the job market...
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