Project achievements included: - kick off meeting with the partner firm and contractors for London networks - exploratory meeting with procurement firm for our managed printing service project - first cut of a business architecture for content creation, management and collaboration infrastructure Additionally: - experiments with Gladinet and Cloud Storage (very interesting) - tried out … Continue reading Weeknote 19 – n… n… n… n…
A fascinating afternoon spent with @ferrar and @kelfish from our Digital team down at Essential Travel - a company set up and run by two old friends of mine. Essential have a business that sells travel insurance, airport parking and other travel-related services over the web. Usability (or lack of) directly impacts their bottom line, … Continue reading Eyetracking Google Instant
The three most lazily titled management theories in history are Theory X , Theory Y (both Douglas MacGregor) and Theory Z (Maslow). These guys need a bit more pizzazz in their theory (see my own 'My Manager is a ****er' Theory, for example). The three Theories are simplistic, but quite useful in classifying management behaviours. … Continue reading Theories X/Y/Z
Nice interview by Aleks Krotoski on the Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast this week with game developer Jane McGonigal. In it, McGonigal quotes from a Canadian philosopher Bernard Suits that "a game is an unnecessary obstacle that we volunteer to try to overcome". She goes on to say that the volunteering aspect is what makes the … Continue reading What is a game?
Run DMC - My Adidas So back to the hip hop for a short while. Run DMC's My Adidas is an important song for me in two ways: firstly, for the adoration of the sports brand which still is my preferred choice of trainer; and secondly for a bit of a muso reason. Adidas are … Continue reading 1986
The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon This is the last song on this list that I got into at a date later than when it was released. I was introduced to The Waterboys when I met (a now long-standing friend) Becky back in 1987. The album that this came from, This is the … Continue reading 1985
I'm about to spend a reasonable amount of time, effort and money on installing some software for around a dozen users to cope with the demands of one of our client's use of encrypted S/MIME email. Whilst there is a Firefox browser plug-in that supposedly supports S/MIME, we've taken the decision to install a stand … Continue reading Insecure security
The history of transactional relational database systems is one entwined in attempts by people from the IT world to classify things in an unambiguous and structured manner. Underpinning the principals of relational database theory is the idea that a piece of data should exist only once, and in one place. This has it's history in … Continue reading Eat sh*t
Chaka Khan - I feel for you In my early teens I was into hip hop. The Street Sounds electro series of albums provided a slice of East Coast/West Coast urban culture to the mean streets of South West Hertfordshire. Once a week I'd join a bunch of assorted misfits at a church hall in … Continue reading 1984
The The - Uncertain Smile The The are a band that I came to in the late 1980s, with the wonderful album Mindbomb, but (because of the glut of wonderful memories from the late 80s) it's a track from their first proper album that makes this list. Uncertain Smile has the best piano solo on … Continue reading 1983
