Category: Experiences

  • Feeling good

    Another year – and a decade – draws to a close. I don’t know about you but my thoughts tend to look forward to what may be coming in the New Year rather than only looking back on what has…

  • Chaos theory

    All this weekend, I’ve been experiencing an increasing sense of disbelief when watching TV news reports of the utter chaos in the UK transportation network as a consequence of the severe weather conditions the country has been enduring. Last night,…

  • UK snow woes

    The hot news in the UK at the moment is about the cold weather. Much of the country – notably Scotland and northeast England – has been gripped in bitter cold and blankets of snow for much of the past…

  • A nostalgic look through a window on computer history

    Microsoft’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, posted a little bit of computer nostalgia if not history the other day – the press release from 1985 announcing the launch of Micros0ft Windows. I don’t remember much about Windows 1.0. Although I’d…

  • Discreet tweets with the Dell Streak

    I sat in a darkened basement conference room at the Royal Aeronautical Society in Mayfair yesterday morning, listening to some terrific presentations and insights at the Echo Research ‘Fit for the Future 2010’ summit. Of the more than 100 people…