Category: Experiences

  • Changing gears with IBM

    Changing gears with IBM

      I’ve been thinking a lot about social business lately. About what it is – broadly, focused on people (behaviours, mindsets) and organizations (culture, vision, leadership) – and about what it isn’t (an extension of, or level up from, social…

  • Open Live Writer: a successor to Windows Live Writer

    Open Live Writer: a successor to Windows Live Writer

    One of the most useful software programs to come out of Microsoft in the past decade is Windows Live Writer, what I consider to be the best offline blogging editor for Windows. WLW first appeared in 2006, but since the…

  • Developing peace of mind with WordPress plugins

    Developing peace of mind with WordPress plugins

    Whenever a new release of the WordPress content management system comes out, I’m usually on it immediately, updating all my sites running WordPress to that latest version. But not this time. Not yet. Version 4.4 of WordPress was released on…

  • How to solve the ad blocking question

    If you run ad blocking software on your computer or mobile device, you’re either preventing the appearance of obtrusive, annoying ads that sometimes block content and add code that slows down the loading of the site you’re visiting, especially on…

  • From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

    From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

    In a few weeks’ time, the next episode in the Star Wars saga will be in the cinema. I already have my tickets and can’t wait to see it! It’s hard to imagine sometimes that the very first Star Wars…