Finding the chase and cutting to it

Twitter has easily replaced RSS as the communication channel of choice.

Only 5 years ago, RSS was seen as the most effective way to allow web viewers to receive federated content.
Two things changed this.
First: Firefox 2 and IE 7, launched within days of each other in October 2006, both chose to only render RSS (along with [...]

I love better ways of achieving something.  Talking, demonstrating and presenting on this subject always makes my day.  It also scares me more than anything else I do regularly.
There are many sites giving you great advice on how to get your message across but I often find it’s the little things that get in the [...]

Times are tough for everyone.
Only today, BBC 4 news stated how few people were able to do (and get paid for) overtime.
Smarter harder not harder is coupled with the need to promote yourself in the work place.
So here are some things I thought I’d share with you, dear reader.

Detlef Nauck has said a few times [...]

Mathematicians are not generally known for being team players.  Mathematicians are seen as being scary, clever in a sit down and think kind of way but definitely not team players.  You don’t think of Netwon in a lab surrounded by a bunch of fellow mathematicians or Einstein having a coffee with David Hilbert while discussing [...]

I’ve been a big fan of the smart phone ever since my husband came home with his Sony P800.
I hung on though and treated myself to a Siemens SX1: I never did get my mail to work reliably but we had browser email access, so in a real emergency, that was always an option.
Jon then [...]

but not many companies are comfortable taking the approach Google has or indeed IBM…
Indeed, at the moment, many companies are so busy trying to balance reorganisation against redundancies and making money against keeping old customers happy and new ones to your door.
 Where you have very large companies, there are often people who see better ways [...]

there is no single correct answer for achieving a goal

Hope you’ve had a Merry Christmas.
Mine was spent with my family, which was ace but meant that recovering from a security hack on my server took a little longer to resolve than normal.
Thankfully though, I keep a regular backup.  I also make sure my web user has limited access to the rest of my work.
So, [...]