Mr Scruff - Get a move on Mr Scruff, AKA Andy Carthy, is the last person who has truly entered my roll call of Musical Heroes (which is a funny bunch including Miles Davis, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Smith, Matt Johnson, David Sylvian, Gilles Peterson and Joyce, amongst others). DJ, cartoonist, producer, recording artist, pie maker … Continue reading 2001
The news that Sony are to discontinue production of cassette Walkmen has provoked a few thoughts. The first, like for many others, was "you mean Sony have still been producing cassette Walkmen?". I guess this is what Chris Anderson would describe as the long tail of the product lifecycle. However, the thing that I found … Continue reading The age of digital obsolescence
Moloko - The Time is Now And then the year 2000 arrived, the world didn't stop, the computers carried on working, and a new millennium and decade were begun, yet again, a year early. I really like the Moloko track. The only thing is that for ages I thought it was sung by Texas. So … Continue reading 2000
The Chemical Brothers - Let forever be 1999 was a weird year. I blame it on the fact that Prince had been singing about it from about 1984, but there were some strange, cult-like things going on, not least the millennium bug and peculiar suicide sects believing that the end of the world was nigh. … Continue reading 1999
Project achievements included: - Google Docs roll out planning - Acoustic issues with London networks solved - Integration of our Midlands offices planning - Printing project RFI issued Additionally: - An interesting evening at a Vodafone/IDC event - Research into Epson interactive projectors Next week in one word: webinar (is that a word)
If you are interested in hearing a bit more about Imagination's experiences thus far of moving into the Cloud, there are a couple of events coming up where I'm going to be speaking. On the 27th October I'm going to be speaking in a Webinar hosted by Google. Details and registration are available here: http://searchcio-midmarket.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1287501389_249.html&asrc=CL_PRM_wcsciom_Google … Continue reading Forthcoming events
An interesting evening last night at a Vodafone-sponsored dinner event around the subject of communication at work. Other than once again confirming for me that there are too many CIOs who are so devoid of communication skills that their comment on the matter is laughable, it set me thinking about the quandary that the mobile … Continue reading The future's not so bright
The Beastie Boys - Intergalatic The Beastie Boys leaped into the public consciousness in the mid 1980s in a whirlwind of teenage high jinks, the theft of hundreds of VW car badges and the general disapproval of the Daily Mail. I seem to remember that there were even calls to ban the band from entering … Continue reading 1998
A fascinating edition of Horizon last night, BBC 2's serious science programme. It looked at work that various mostly psychology groups are doing to understand what illusions (optical and auditory tricks, conjuring and so on) can tell us about the way in which our brains make sense of the world around us. A couple of … Continue reading Just an illusion
I wrote the following for a newsletter that a friend of mine is publishing out to her company's clients and contacts. It's a distillation of much that I've been thinking about recently: Cloud computing is reaching the apex of its hype curve at the moment as established IT service companies jostle for position in the … Continue reading Evolving in the Cloud
