Monday, 22 February 2010 12:23
Appropriate Technology
When used appropriately, technology is a wonderful thing. When it's used to create efficiency or to help your clients deal with you more easily then it's great. When it's used to cut costs at the expense of your clients then it's a killer.
I'm on hold to BT at the…
Friday, 19 February 2010 11:02
This Week...
The last week and a bit has been a mixture of triumph and disaster.
I was away in Aberdeen from Friday until Wednesday, staying in a castle with no mobile phone reception so I couldn't do a great deal which was a bit of a disaster, but quite nice.
However,…
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 16:31
My Stars For Today
Rick Levine: You could become a temporary workaholic today because you want others to see how conscientious you can be in a crisis situation. But it's easy to take your good intentions too far by assuming such a heavy burden of responsibilities that you cannot do a competent job at…
Monday, 08 February 2010 16:40
Free iPad!!!!!!!
You've seen Steve talking about it and you must have heard the word on the streets. The iPad is coming! Love it or hate it, it's Apple's latest must have gadget. I commented about it when it was first shown in Steve Jobs' presentation and my opinion, having held ours,…
Friday, 05 February 2010 14:09
Genius and Jam Doughnuts
We've been talking to a company called K R Associates, an independent environmental testing and consultancy service specialising in building noise control, efficiency and safety, about rebuilding their website based on a design by Spitfire Marketing in Southampton.
We're taking the design and putting the content management system in place…
Wednesday, 03 February 2010 15:50
We have a plant!
Usually the only green life in our office is mould in a cup that someone's left on a desk but we decided to go up market with our own plants for the office.
It's quite surpising how much difference a bit of greenery can make! I'm thinking of building on…
Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:47
How to find the Pole Star
My 6 year old daughter is doing a project at school about planets and the solar system so I decided to do a bit of reading up on it. Most people will have heard about Polaris or the Pole Star and know that it's the easiest way to find North…
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:46
I'm not so sure about this
Don't get me wrong: I love apple. We've got 2 Mac laptops, and oldish G5, 2 iMacs, iPod Touch and an iPod 80gb. Oh, and there's an eMac in the loft which I can't bear to get rid of as it was my first Mac and the one that converted…
Friday, 22 January 2010 15:42
Some people are so rude!
Shopping in Tesco today for the office coffee (review to follow!), I went to the self-service checkouts as I only had 3 items. So, there are 2 checkouts on the left and 2 on the right separated by a desk with a woman who watches the progress of the 4…
Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:12
This Week's Coffee
Kenya AA Roast and Ground Coffee - Tesco Finest Range
What they say:
This light, full-boddied aromatic coffee is made from 100% Arabica beans originating from Kenya. It has a fruity aroma and a zesty tang from its citrus flavours
Kenyan coffee is grown above 6000 feet in Nyeri which…
Monday, 18 January 2010 19:25
Today's Timeline
It's the end of the day here and nothing really of note has passed today so I thought I would just give a brief list of the things that I've done today...
1. Completed building the navigation for one website after Claire did the content last week
2. Reinstalled the…
Friday, 15 January 2010 13:12
Is there a chance that I might be wrong?
I had a meeting with a couple of guys this morning, one is an entrepreneur who has an idea, the other is working with him as a consultant/business advisor. The entrepreneur has come up with an idea that is chucking the gauntlet down at the feet of a big internet…
Friday, 15 January 2010 08:02
A good day!
My day yesterday started at 5.30 when I left home to drive to a potential client in North London. It was the second meeting to get the project under way. It was a hellish drive up there in the pouring rain. Then it dawned on me that the positive thing…
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 12:39
Wednesday's Stars
Another very spooky day for my stars today as this pretty much says exactly what I was planning to do when I was going through some projects last night.
Being creative may be quite exciting now, especially if you establish a work flow that you can sustain. Although your head…
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:34
Stars for Tuesday
2 out of 2 for Justin Levine who does the stars for Google. I don't usually bother with this sort of thing but they've been so close the last 2 days that it got me interested:
Focus on what is right in front of you today instead of worrying about…
Monday, 11 January 2010 16:43
What have we done today?
Today has been a day of preparation and planning. It's a new year and I'm putting in new procedures and policies about the way that we work and the type of projects we undertake.
I've seen a few companies buckle under the weight of the recession and disappear leaving small…
Sunday, 10 January 2010 14:00
My Stars
These were my stars for Sunday 10th Jan 2010. They really couldn't be any more apt if I'd written them myself!
Your financial condition might be improving, but that doesn't mean you should spend the money before it's in the bank. You still have a substantial amount of work to…
Friday, 08 January 2010 08:24
The first blog entry
Well there has to be one!
Well here we are in 2010 and I wanted Insight to have a new website. 2009 was a rubbish year for everyone and that didn't exclude us. But this year, everything changes. We've always had lots of business but it's not always been the…
