Blur - Girls & Boys Ahh. Britpop. When did the charts last get mentioned on the TV evening news? Erm, probably when the latest instalment of Simon Cowell's Pop Tarts kicked off. Or at least when Rage Against The Machine swore their way to number one at Christmas. 'Fuck you, we'll all download the single … Continue reading 1994
Bjork - Human Behaviour Looking back (and we're just past the halfway point now), it's remarkable how short a period of time my university days took up. I'm not the sort of person who continually pines for the 'good old days', but I do recognise how much influence the three years I had at Loughborough … Continue reading 1993
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit This is the riff of my student days... So this one is a bit of a cheat, because Smells Like Teen Spirit was actually release in 1991. It did, however, feature in some charts across the globe in early 1992, so it counts. My count-up, my rules, and it's … Continue reading 1992
Project achievements included: - new core fibre installed in Store Street - printing project audit underway - kick-off for new authentication infrastructure - investigations began for exploring Picasa on a corporate basis Additionally: - attended the CIO Summit, and interviewed for CIO.co.uk - also interviewed for CIT Magazine Next week in one word: Dublin
I commented on Twitter yesterday that it seemed from recent experiences, the majority of CIOs don't get Social Media and the Web 2.0 thing. There were a few comments - one saying that this probably was the case across most boardrooms, and another asking why did it matter? In his talk at Google Atmosphere last … Continue reading Show your working
An interesting day spent at the first UK CIO Summit. Much conversation about the impact of consumerization in software services (Cloud) and also in terms of devices (Apple in particular), and an underlying assumption that both would lead to lower costs. Whilst commoditization of software services in the world of SaaS undeniably does lead to … Continue reading The costs of consumer devices
Vic Reeves and The Wonderstuff - Dizzy LCR 963. Loughborough Campus Radio. Broadcasting all over the student village. And live to the Purple Onion. Ahh. Those were the days. As I mentioned a few years back, as a kid I used to pretend to do radio shows in my parents' front room. At University I … Continue reading 1991
I lost my Oyster card at the weekend (for those of you outside of London, Oyster is the branding of London Transport's contactless ticketing technology). Years ago I lost an old cardboard-and-magnetic-tape season ticket, and remember the grilling that I received at the station ticket office to ensure that I wasn't simply trying to defraud … Continue reading Automating client service
The Las- There she goes Those of you who knew me in the late 1980s will know that I was a militant little git. Although the Anti-Apartheid Movement was the only organised political group that I was actively involved in (and one that spanned party politics for the most part), I tended to have a … Continue reading 1990
