Home from a week in Hong Kong on business…hoping I’ll get back to what passes for normality quick! Jet-lag is weird…for me I often feel like I’m on the deck of a moving ship when I’m 30 storeys up in an office somewhere! Bit nauseating??! But this trip I managed to kick my sleep patterns [...]
The office has now (in it’s dubious wisdom) decided to block xkcd.com….my epitaph for a site that keeps me laughing every single day
Or “21 Ideas about leading Innovation” 1. Creativity means doing new things with old ideas. 2. Treat innovation as an import-export business. Keep trying to bring in ideas from outside your group or organization, keep trying to show and tell others about your ideas, and blend them all together. 3. Look for and build intersections [...]
Really excited for a couple of guys from my teams…they’re starting their #Fusion journey today in RMA Sandhurst. We’ve swapped a few emails about the course and spoken a little but there’s nothing like that feeling of excitement mixed with trepidation at the kick-off session with a room-full of (largely unknown) colleagues. It’s only a [...]
Cross post from Seth Godin’s blog People don’t like deadlines. They mean a decision, shipping and risk. They force us to decide. Deadlines work. Products that are about to disappear, auctions that are about to end, tickets that are about to sell out–they create forward motion. Deadlines make people do dumb things. Every time I [...]
Absolutely loving this piece of work ! Then clicking on these summaries takes you to a detail view Not particularly groundbreaking you might think but the implications are significant…data (the bard’s poems in this case) reside in the Google App Engine ‘Cloud’ and the heavylifting gets done by a little python scripting to get the [...]
I own an iPod Touch…it’s a great device and all the millions of words that have been written around the web on it, I’m not going to add further on it except to say I think it’s great…but! iTunes sucks ! It’s the worst bloated sluggish piece of desktop software I’ve seen in the last [...]
Two very interesting articles on teh interweb [sic!] show a serious change in the state and direction of internet…I wonder if in 20 years time we’ll look back and identify this as the tipping point ? Macs to get AV Windows usage dips Time will tell ;0)
An extract from Google Financials with four of the larget UK players in the Investment banking and financial services based back to a relative price at the start of September ’08. Those relative losses in value over one month make for painful reading… RBS – buy at £1.50