There's been an image of an early 1980s Byte Magazine cover that's been doing the rounds on Twitter aligned to a story by Harry McCracken on Time's website about the trouble with futurology. It's all been irking me, and I'm trying to work out why. The first reason it irks me is that lots of … Continue reading The innovative power of combination
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Obfuscation is currently one of my favourite words. It seems to express something that seems to happen in so many circumstances, and it also is one of those few words that you are actually, to some extent, doing by using it. It also is a word that perfectly sums up the pricing strategies of telecoms … Continue reading Obfuscation
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” Bill Gates Bill's observation about our ability to over-hype the near future and underplay the long term really holds true in bullish markets. You can see it at the moment, both in the hype surrounding next … Continue reading The last big bubble burst
There's one of my many potted theories that I've recounted to a few folks over the past couple of weeks that I thought worth retelling here. It's basically a way to keep your head up when confronted by the madness of corporate bureaucracy... There is a whole body of knowledge in the world of Sociology known … Continue reading Everything has a reason
The Guardian's Charles Arthur tweeted the graph above and an article yesterday looking at how time spent on mobile devices breaks down across apps and the mobile web. Mobile, so long the place the advertisers failed to make an impact, is now big ad business (and both The Guardian and Microsoft Advertising have a vested … Continue reading Not all apps are created equal
Every so often I take stock of the devices and services that I use in my day-to-day working (and not-working) life. Here's where I'm at as of April 2014: Devices Samsung Chromebook I've written about my experiences with Chromebook (a post that still gets quite a few views) and I'm generally pretty happy with … Continue reading The toolkit
According to reports in The Daily Telegraph today over 3/4 of British businesses are running Windows XP, the operating system that Microsoft moves to "end of life" status next week. The headline is obviously misleading. 77% of UK businesses using XP isn't anything like 77% of British business PCs using the old OS which estimates within … Continue reading Any worse at end of life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJzTKyp6LYE Here's a retelling of the presentation that I gave at last week's CIO network event. You can find further materials at http://stamplondon.co.uk/winmarkevent
I spent much of Sunday evening in A&E. Nothing serious - just the average sort of flesh wound you come to get used to when living with toddler siblings who've just worked out the basics of projectiles. The children's department was unusually busy, and so I had quite a few hours to look at the sign … Continue reading Change pain
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