It's been a while since I sat down and worked out what tools I use on a day-to-day basis. It's useful to take stock once in a while. So here goes... Devices: Samsung Galaxy S7 The second-most expensive device I have ever purchased and the one with which I've probably been least satisfied. Yesterday morning … Continue reading 2017 Colophon
An interesting workshop yesterday with a group of end users at one of my clients. The project is looking to modernise key IT services - replacing clunky laptops and desktop thin client terminals and on premise productivity tools with sleek and light ultrabooks and Cloud-based collaborative places. The sort of thing in one way or … Continue reading Couldn’t live without it
This week I have learned: editing video always takes an awfully lot longer than I first expect. This is why it is highly unlikely that WB-40 will ever become a TV programme. that the iPad as become a crucial part of my working life. Left at home for a day this week by mistake and I … Continue reading Weeknote 361: Two hundred and eighty
I learned how to write 140 character tweets at the age of 16. I'm nearly 47. Let me explain... Back in the day in Watford, the funny little town in which I grew up, we used to have two local newspapers. The Evening Echo was published six times a week, including the exciting Saturday evening … Continue reading Sweating the small stuff
There are two moments in my life that have stuck with me since as some of the most intense and visceral memories I possess. The first was when I was around seven years old. I was at school, Watford Fields, a draughty old Victorian place where I was from five to eight. We arrived as … Continue reading The power of being totally confused
This week I have learned: Bought a new telly for the first time in seven years. They've come on a bit, eh? Missenden Abbey provides pretty cost-effective meeting space in lovely surroundings The super Amy Kean has written a book... ... and at lunch this week we also discussed the idea of a conference where nothing … Continue reading Weeknote 360: circular
Out of idle curiosity yesterday I spent a bit of time asking the internet the question "What do I need to know to start exploring the world of Artificial Intelligence?" The answers that I received from those nice Mr Brin & Page's marvellous machine were illuminating. There was a lot about mathematics. Statistics in particular. … Continue reading A limited interpretation
So according to extensive research published yesterday by Microsoft as part of their annual Future Decoded jamboree, digital transformation is a matter of changing people and behaviours rather than merely technology. Wow. Who knew? But here, it seems to me, is the rub. The sort of decision making in organisations that chooses Microsoft to provide … Continue reading It’s all about the people
For some years now I’ve been voicing scepticism about the likelihood that we’ll be seeing completely autonomous vehicles buzzing about our streets. Whether on grounds of economics (too many people want to travel at the same time of the day and that’s due to factors unrelated to transport), through human factors (we negotiate city driving … Continue reading The driver-less car
This week I have learned: for the second time in my life that some people will put tidying up ahead of sensible electrical safety that Microsoft's financial reporting has mastered a new level of obfuscation in terms of hiding what's actually going on with their selling of Cloud too many Digital Agencies can only think … Continue reading Weeknote 359: electrical sparks
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