Conceptual integrity
A long time ago now I read the Mythical Man Month, and I remember two things from it: On a large activity conceptual integrity is really difficult to achieve and maintain In the sixties IBM seemed to...
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The future of Microsoft office
Office is on the ropes, there’s no doubt in my mind that Office 2007 is a great product, I use it every day and I would probably go so far as to say that it’s a joy to use. That said I know it’s...
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Is SharePoint Facebook for the enterprise
In this interesting post Mike Gotta asks “Will Microsoft Become Facebook for the Enterprise?” I think the answer is a definite YES. Whilst I think there is a role for LinkedIn or FaceBook for...
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Successful collaboration
(updated to add missing link later on in the post) Stu has an interesting post on effective collaboration, I think his arrows pointing in the right direction, but I don’t think its the whole story....
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OCS and Communicator 2007 vs. Windows Live Messenger?
I’m not a Office communicator user and have often wondered why Microsoft bothered with multiple products in this space. That was until I read this post, which described the main reasons that Office...
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Work less – achieve more
For most of my working life I have really enjoyed my work and put in a lot of hours, but my recent illness has resulted in me working probably an average of 6 hours a day over the last 3 years and...
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Does improving collaboration depend on culture change?
(updated with a link to Michael’s post that works!) Michael argues that we hide behind the need for culture change on many collaboration projects, his key point is illustrated by this example: if a...
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Architecture as a service
I might be stretching a point a little (well actually quite a lot) with the title, but just like Software as a Service gets rid of all the redundant effort that goes on in every enterprise delivering...
View ArticleI have always written a weekly highlight report, but now I’m finding that Twitter is a nice complement, its very easy and natural to provide these short twitter updates and having a client always...
View ArticleI’m still not sure about Facebook, as a business tool – seems to be a bit of a time consumer so far, but I can see it’s appeal for kids. Taking a look at Grahams profile gave me a few ideas so at...
View ArticleA new youtube video: A Tour of the Allotment Store
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aHFKdjqJPRM/hqdefault.jpg We just went through the allotment store to check everything out. Fortunately we only had a couple of rotten spuds, two sprouting garlic cloves and a...
View ArticleA new youtube video: Wrapping up 2018’s Allotment Finances
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2agNFp5IxGQ/hqdefault.jpg If you’ve been following along you will know that I keep a rough tally of what I harvest and what I spend in £ on the allotment. This December we spent...
View ArticleA new youtube video: Celebrating Allotment Meals from 2018
NOTE: apologies for the low volume audio running in the background of this video, I forgot to set the volume to zero during editing. Lots of people have requested some insight into what we eat from the...
View ArticleA new youtube video: Full allotment Tour and Clean Up
Every couple of weeks I do a tour of the allotments to show what we’ve been working on during the last few weeks and the progress – or otherwise – on the plots. If you are new to my allotment videos...
View ArticleA new youtube video: Planting out early peas, calabrese, cauliflower and...
I like to spend an hour or so on the allotment a few days a week in winter, just keeping on top of things before it gets really busy in mid-February. Today I planted out the first and second...
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