I’ve deliberately used the word Cloud to grab your attention but the question is equally applicable if you use Cloud systems or in house systems. This post was prompted following an interesting twitter conversation I had last night with Frank Scavo and Dennis Howlett around yesterday’s outage of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Frank started […]
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It’s a well-known fact that bad news sells… and that’s probably the reason that most blogs you read are full of doom and gloom or are pointing out the inadequacies of someone or something. Having just done that with my previous post I thought I’d buck the trend and write about two good news stories […]
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Almost seduced by a thing of beauty…
For anyone whose seen the Jaguar XK you’ll know it’s a thing of beauty… not only does it look gorgeous but it’s a masterpiece of engineering packing a super smooth 5.0L V8 power unit a chassis that makes it stick to the road like glue and a state of the art Aluminium body shell. To […]
A month or so ago I fuelled my apple addition further with the purchase of a iMac. I have to say I’ve been delighted with the iMac so far and thought I’d take a few minutes to share some of the things I’ve discovered. As with all the other apple kit I’ve bought getting started […]
If you follow my blog you’ll be well aware of my recent trials and tribulations I’ve been having with Dell. I suppose like many others before me I innocently thought that when I placed the order that I was buying from Dell and that they would take accountability for my order until it was delivered. […]
After my serious posts of late I thought I’d end the year with a bit of humour… Bought my son a new pair of Puma trainers yesterday and I wanted to share a couple of gems that I discovered on the box. The first as you can see here is “Average Contents 2” … as […]
Dell is probably a very reliable company most of the time, but I’ve seen a very different side lately… I’ve been a Dell advocate for at least 13 years now… Having bought a number of Dell machines for home use and having lost count of the many many Dell machines I’ve bought and used in a […]
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to show a keynote presentation, or flash up a spread sheet on my iPad and I haven’t had my VGA adapter handy and have had to go through the well documented workaround of screen dumping each slide to a photo and then using Airplay to show […]
There have been lots of reports in the press about how battery life has taken a hit following people buying the new iPhone 4s and from people who have upgraded to iOS5. This isn’t something new as I found that my battery life used to be poor on iOS4 until I turned off spotlight search. […]
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it is Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that […]
Stuart Lynn - Masters Athlete 