Not overly impressed so far ! Jobs-worths in Apple have now re-ignited a Browser scrap but for all the wrong reasons. They’ve just released their much-lamented Safari browser for the PC platform in Beta format. Initial reports on fairly vanilla installs suggest it’s significantly faster in the html rendering department but far from stable experiencing [...]

What’s better than working for the #2 UK Bank ? Why yes..! I believe it’s working for the #1 UK Bank <grins> Well I’m finally saying goodbye to RBS after more than 4 years. It’s had it’s ups and downs but more of the former than the latter I’m happy to say. I’ve worked with [...]

Here’s the eternal question…how do you get technologists to intimately comprehend the business process and function in order that their finely-honed code can help do things quicker, cheaper and more accurately ? This is largely the role of the Business Analyst. I’m getting heavily involved with my employer’s BA cadre grinding out a Best Practice [...]

Ars Technica does a good follow-up on their initial look at Vista from a graphical and design POV…this article goes into (limited) depth on the (belatedly updated) security model and what got cut from the release…WinFS most notably. Shame about WinFS which is now apparently dead…but I wouldn’t be in least surprised to see something [...]

Great article on the BBC yesterday about the public’s response to the ridiculous Olympic logo…they got a bunch of them to try and do better. This got one of the nods !! And if you don’t know why it’s funny I ain’t explaining !

As ever Dilbert nicely fleshes out the ongoing disparity between what business people say and do and what they actually mean ! This is always an interesting subject for me…in almost every meeting I attend where you’re actioned you end up clarifying the actual ‘meaning’ of the requirements or action point. Now this isn’t always [...]

So in the finest traditions of the stock market the share price of R B S has been taking a bit of a caning at the moment. Despite a recent multi-million pound share buy-back and a market beating 2007 share dividend the city still doesn’t believe Sir Fred et al can make their stated intent [...]

Microsoft have just released to the public their ground-breaking new interface paradigm. Can you tell I’m less than impressed ? What’s the point in a $5-$10k hunk of rear-projected electronics and coffee table that twitters at you to get a refill, pay the bill…and don’t think for one second that the marketeers aren’t already salivating [...]