This section of the website contains a series of musings across a range of topics from business to humour, some of which originate back to September 29th 2010:
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How to make the best ever christmas cake!!!
Ingredients: * 2 cups flour * 1 stick butter * 1 cup of water * 1 tsp baking soda * 1 cup of sugar * 1 tsp salt * 1 cup of brown sugar * Lemon juice * 4 large eggs * Nuts * 2 bottle wine * 2 cups of dried fruit Sample the
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AirPrint compatible printers… who needs them?
It’s fast approaching the festive season… and it might be an appropriate time to roll out the pantomime saying “Oh no it isn’t” in relation to the following statement which is part of this recent CRN Post: The much vaunted wireless ‘tap and print’ feature, AirPrint, however is currently only supported by three Hewlett-Packard printers:
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How much do public clouds cost and are all things equal?
Most people have heard about the cloud and the benefit it brings in the shape of pay for what you use and rapid provisioning etc… Simple right… well yes and no. Taking Amazon EC2 as an example… its sounds pretty simple to begin with… Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee. Estimate your monthly
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It’s decided… the Iphone gets one more chance.
Just downloaded iOS4.2 for the ipad and it looks great, I really like the Airplay and multitasking features… Can’t yet get Airprint to work, which for me has filled a huge gap in functionality… even though I have a wireless printer, most likely my model isn’t supported. So what has this to do with the
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Innovation is the conversion of ideas into cash and Invention is the conversion of cash into ideas.
Do you work in the Innovation business or are you an Inventor… do you know the difference? I was intrigued when I originally wrote this post way back in January after reading a story that defined the meaning of innovation as the execution of an idea, whereas creativity was having the idea in the first place. Most people I
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Spam, Ham and Yummy Pie…
Like many other sites I receive my fair amount of Spam comments left on my blog… However, because I use WordPress, I’m protected by the Akismet spam filter, and having a poke around over lunch today I find out there is more to spam than meets the eye, in fact there is spam and ham. The
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Is it time to throw my iPhone in the bin or does it deserve one more chance?
For years I used a blackberry with great pleasure… but a year or so ago, like many others, I was lured by the iPhone 3GS. I look back now and have to admit to being caught up in the gadget hype, and the “as someone who works in IT why are you still using that old Blackberry” conversations with friends.
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My beloved iPad will never replace my beloved Laptop
I’ve been an iPad user since they were released and I have to start by saying it’s a great device as well as being a cool gadget… However, it will never replace my laptop… Why? Well let me start on a positive with what I like about it: The boot up time is excellent, log
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The “One for all and all for one” Cloud…
I was intrigued by this story from the BBC website last night on how 70 big name firms had formed an alliance to drive Cloud standards. The story begins : Some of the world’s biggest companies are using their market clout to demand that computer equipment makers change the way they make their machines. The
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Blog Baptism…
Another refinement to my blog today when it was baptised with the new name of https://stuartlynn.co.uk/, couldn’t get stuartlynn.com, someone squatting on it, aren’t they always… but .co.uk is okay. A very simple process indeed, just had to change the name server as per the WordPress instructions, pay a £7.80 mapping fee and it’s done.
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Instant Blogging with WordPress
I’m still very much a novice when it comes to blogging… I started a blog last year using Blogger but I didn’t really get very far… amongst other things the tool itself wasn’t fantastic. A few weeks back I switched to WordPress… and I have to say I’ve been very impressed, very easy to setup,
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Softworld change or die… ??
I had the pleasure of attending this year’s Softworld event at Excel in London. I say pleasure… when really I have to say it was probably the poorest I have attended to date. Manoj Ranaweera, whom I had the good fortune to meet, summarised the event in his own blog here he quotes: Softworld is UK’s
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The world is changing and the web is changing too!
In a recent article in Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff made this quite remarkable claim… Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services – think apps -are less about the searching and more about the getting. Their rationale was based on this scenario… You wake
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When the industry is crying out for standards – customer validation
This afternoon, I received a comment to my original blog about reinventing standards from Ronald Duncan of @UK PLC. I feel that Ronald’s reply builds significantly onto the original blog and therefore deserves a special mention in this new blog as opposed to being hidden in a comment: Hi, BASDA are current in the process
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Maybe the so called dinosaurs (desktop vendors) of the industry aren’t so long in the tooth after all…
In a captivating evening at the UK Software satisfaction awards last night the story was dramatically different from that of 12 months earlier as the roll of honour swung heavily in favour of the on-premise software vendors. There was a deluge of awards for the on-premise vendors where the Access Group scooped three awards, Relate
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When the industry is crying out for standards, why reinvent the wheel?
Dennis Howlett recently blogged here on how some of the newer entrants to the industry are collaborating on a new, Simple Universal Business Language (SUBL), initiative to send and receive orders and invoices electronically between heterogeneous applications. This sounds highly desirable and will undoubtedly save users time and improve the accuracy of entering transactions into
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Look into the sky and tell me what you see… a cloud?
No, look into the sky and tell me what you really see.. a whole bunch of clouds. Exactly the same for the phenomenon applies to the Internet Cloud, in that there isn’t one cloud, but many clouds of all different shapes and sizes. A very simple statement on the surface, yet confusion arises when people
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Why do people blog?
My wife asked me that question just the other day, In my experience its mostly to promote themselves, to promote their company or to promote their products. However, occasionally you come across a blogger who isn’t selling themselves, their company or their products, and when you do it’s a breath of fresh air… no selling,
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Just getting the engine started
content to follow very soon
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