I grew up with a large orchard and I still love growing my own fruit. I don’t have room for many trees so I have them growing in metal dustbins all the way down the drive at the side of the house. This month I’m picking cherries every day –...
My second hand Thinkpad X60 tablet arrived today via HireIT and eBay. Its an ex eval model and in perfect condition even though it was less than half price. Even better HireIt seem to give you whatever model they have available and in my case the spec was up-rated quite a...
Those of us who grew up with the co-located meeting never stopped complaining about how unproductive the experience was. We spent years trying to improve the level of interactivity with whiteboards, flip charts, projectors and decision support systems to increase the level of participation and improve the quality of decisions. ...
James Dellow works for the same company as me (but on the other side of the world) and blogs on many of the same topics, although he’s much more prolific! James has recently provided a consolidated list of his articles and papers and collectively they make a great read. James’...
Jon Udell’s – Interviews With Innovators – is currently my favorite Podcast series. Whilst Jon is not a “great” speaker his relaxed interviews are really excellent and his knowledge and insightful questions really make each one a real learning experience. I have listened to thousands of podcasts and I can definitely...
For years now I have observed that most IT staff are moving in the direction of becoming generalists whether they realize it or not. This is nicely illustrated by this post by Brian madden where he quotes Citrix: IT professionals are more and more becoming “generalists,” so it’s important that...
I am a big fan of the quick conditional formats in Excel, but I get very frustrated by the in cell bar graphs and their strange behavior – basically this means they are very unreliable as a way to visualize the real relationship between numbers in a range. They are...
I came across this diet on a few blogs (the wonderful David Pollard and Kathy Sierra) by chance and was fascinated by its simplicity: leave at least 2 hours between eating food with flavour. At least one hour after eating take some flavorless food (a glass of sugar water or a tablespoon of...
I have been worrying for a long time about how to improve the benefits delivery from investments in desktop, office and collaborative systems and it’s always bothered me how little attention Microsoft has invested in the problem until now! They have come up with a tool called the Enterprise Learning Framework,...
Over the last few years I have paid a lot of attention to improving my happiness at work and it’s certainly paid off. But more interesting has been the impact on my professional activities. I work mainly in vision and strategy for a large systems integrator, my focus is on...