When I was a kid I used to roam for miles all over the country side around my house and before I was 12 I was often away all day canoeing down the river, exploring the woods or just riding for miles on my bike. For some reason though my...
When I am away from home and think about my kids, I almost always imagine them crowded around the kitchen table doing craft activities. My Wife – Debbie – has always loved craft activities, so four kids is a dream come true from that perspective. In fact she loves planning...
It hardly ever snows in Lytham St Annes, so this picture is pretty important to me, its the first time all my four kids got chance to play in the snow together, in fact they had to wait another 5 years I think for a second opportunity, although by that...
This category of my main blog is really for people who know me, or want to understand more about what makes me tick. Most of the posts from this category won’t appear in my main blog so you will need to subscribe direct, which you can do by subscribing to...
Last week at work I was promoting the importance of thinking through carefully the business need we were trying to satisfy with our products so that we could watch out for new technologies that might meet that need and disrupt our existing services. My impression is that all too often...
I like a good keyboard and really struggle even with the so so keyboard on my Treo 650. However one of my friends can tap out messages pretty quickly without even looking at his phone number pad and many people have told me that most kids can do this really...
As a technologist who works closely with technical sales teams and product marketing teams I found this talk by Larry Weber very interesting. The talk; titled “The Rise of Unpaid Media” describes the marketing approaches that will be successful in the near term future, a world that’s very different from the...
Kathy has yet another amazing post on her Creating Passionate Users site about the fact that animals love exercise, and she questions why we don’t. Well whilst I think its a great article with wonderful pictures of her horses if she came around to my house and saw my four...
I have just posted some advice on how to implement a wiki in the enterprise, and here is another great link to a comprehensive approach to implementing social software.
Peter Cochrane certainly does a lot more travelling than me, but you can be sure I will be following some of his tips next time I fly internationally. This is an excellent article and demonstrates – yet again – the value of experts sharing the way they work – or...