Blog written, emails done, been for a walk, scheduled meetings. # Now gorging on chocolate cake at cafe nero and reading feeds # A short walk now and then off to Chorley to meet with Stu and probably Charlie at 11:00 # Just back from Chorley and good meeting with...
As part of HP’s happiness at work initiative they have listed 25 new places to work. I’ve repeated the list (minus a few of the less relevant ones like the Eiffel Tower!) below with my comments in blue: The garden. There’s nothing like an English summer. And even if the...
I suppose there’s one good thing about being up half the night in too much pain to sleep, I have time to write some blog posts! # Forced myself out of bed # Discussing lab strategy with Rob, lots of potential # Very impressed with Dragon Naturally Speaking, almost 100%...
Dave Pollard gives us his idea of how one might aspire to spend the day: So, for example, a 24-hour day might be allocated to the following important activities: 9 hours a day for sleeping and personal hygiene 2 hours a day for physical exercise — running, meditation, working out,...
This looks like an excellent group for people like me, working within a large enterprise, providing advice and solutions to large enterprises and trying to manage the disruptive enterprise 2.0, web 2.0 disruptive wave of change – while keeping our business and their’s running and profitable. The mandate of the...
I’m a mobile worker and a happy one, but I can imagine that lots of mobility projects just provide more burdens on the time of already stressed out employees. The whole always on, can’t go 5 minutes without email culture seems to be replacing face to face contact and telephone...
Dragged myself out for a walk, although my shoulders and ankles resisted. Very windy, very tired, pleased to be at Boaters Landing reading # Caught up with about half of my backlog of reading, 50% feeds, 50% analyst reports # Buying Dragon Naturally Speaking off eBay for £19 worth the...
I already have energy saving bulbs in my home office (and the rest of the house) but this Christmas I thought it was time to make a bit more of an effort so now I have my centre desktop monitor plugged into one of these plugs. I then have an...
Although I was aware that I was being exposed to a lot of EM radiation in my home office I didn’t really give it much thought, that is until I read this article – The Gathering Brainstorm – in the Ecologist magazine. I then did a quick count and found...
I do a lot of work while out walking, normally this takes the form of phone calls, dictating notes, listening to recorded teleconferences and listening to PODCASTS. While at home I found that I could scan my RSS feeds with my laptop resting on the handlebars of my exercise bike...