Recently I’ve started running. (First proper exercise in about 20 years!) Its only every other day and I’m doing very simple and gentle stuff. It’s actually a lot easier than I thought and the recent good weather has definitely helped. I started using Runkeeper to help me track progress – this has been really beneficial….
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Manage, management, managing…
How to work with difficult people
In Richard Sennett’s new book ‘Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation’, he explores the history of cooperation and posits that most tactics that we commonly use are actually making it harder to reach a position of real cooperation. There are four key skills Professor Sennett believes we all need to get better at if…
Dear Auditors, I present: Charlie Brooker
Want to read this article? Then enter your password via Charlie Brooker | Want to read this article? Then enter your password | Comment is free | The Guardian. Forgotten your password? That’ll be the 58th one you’ve not remembered this year, then. In days of yore, we’re told, people had less leisure time because…
The internet – costing or saving the planet?
This article… Schwarzenegger’s ebook plans are not a greener option California’s plans to drop traditional textbooks in favour of online material will no doubt spare a few trees – but Arnie should be choosing the greenest option by rolling out dedicated e-reader devices at the same time, says Duncan Graham-Rowe via Schwarzenegger’s ebook plans are…
I've been podcasted (nearly)
JISC came to see us at lunchtime today. David Flanders (and journalist Basheera Khan) paid a visit in order to present the List8D team with their winning cheque. We had a nice lunch (with pop), a photo op, and two podcasts were recorded: one of me, John Sotillo and Keith Mander, and the other was…
The Hannover Principles
One of the things I’d like to consider (pipe dream / pie in the sky time) is how me and my team might consider applying something like The Hannover Principles to our work. (As usual) I’m no expert, but I think the HPs are focussed on buildings and objects. We build web digital applications. Each time we…
The Groundswell – figures for UK 2008
Just for the record really, but am reading The Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff from Forrester. They accompany the book with a website which includes a profile tool. For this to make sense you need to understand their “Social Technographics®” classifications which describe: Inactives, Spectators, Joiners, Collectors, Critics, and Creators. Their profile tool includes data…
Sun's MySQL Enterprise Database Helps University Ensure Reliability of Mission-Critical Systems
It’s 29/4/09, but I’m pre-dating this post so that it appears when the article I’m referencing was published… I was interviewed by Sun/MySQL for some info on how we use MySQL. I (nearly) said: “Sun’s MySQL database is the de facto standard of databases. Our staff knows it, and developers with MySQL skills are very…
Time is precious
I suppose I reserve judgement on whether you can proclaim any idea to be the number 1 secret, but it certainly gets attention. A post in Seth’s blog (Time) reveals to us: the #1 most overlooked secret of marketing It turns out to be two things: show up on time (as an individual and in…
Does Google Calendar Sync work and help?
I’m going to see what happens when I sync my work calendar (Outlook 2003 via a Sun Connector to our Sun Java Communication Suite) to my Google calendar. Then see if I can get my missus to do same with her work calendar. Then see if this helps us co-ordinate on picking up the kids…