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Have French farmers kidnapped the DEFRA website?
I thought that might get your attention! The truth is probably far simpler. Earlier on today, I was searching the DEFRA website for a piece of information I needed and found a small typo in the footer...
View ArticleDD307 course materials have arrived – early!
Unusually for me I decided to spend today working from home. It’s unusual as even if I have a day where I’m not with a customer or prospective customer, I’d normally much rather be in my office than...
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Application modernisation: The Roundhouse, Derby
The Roundhouse The Roundhouse – Derby College is a fine example of application modernisation, situated (very appropriately) next to Software AG’s offices.
View ArticleLink blogging for w/c 24th January 2011
Apologies for the lack of posts this week. It’s been a busy one for all kinds of reasons, largely work related. I still don’t feel like writing anything original tonight, so instead I thought I’d offer...
View ArticleCrossing organisational silos – a few quotations
I’m currently creating an e-book (for work) on why it’s a good idea to use (our) methodologies and tools to support “cross-silo working” as a way of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of...
View ArticleOn the road
So far this year I seem to be spending a lot of time away from home. Specifically, I seem to be spending a lot of time working from our Bracknell office – it was 3 days last week and 4 days this week....
View ArticleToo much stuff!
I’ve been looking ahead at my calendar for the next few weeks and I’ve come to a simple conclusion about it – there’s just far too much stuff I need to get done. Some of the “stuff” is unavoidable of...
View ArticleThe dreams of a 21 year old
Many years ago, when I was a mere 21 years old, I hatched a plan that, had I been able to execute it, would have seen me retiring in a couple of years time. With another birthday fast approaching and...
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Unpaid Internships at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are currently offering: Unpaid … ten high quality internships in 2012-13 … for a commitment to volunteer with us for 3-12 months, depending on the specific...
View ArticleDoes measuring personality make sense?
This is a rather long post (nearly 1,800 words) and I’m fully aware that it will break (by some margin) the tl;dr(*) threshold of many people! But I’ve written it for me, primarily to remind me of some...
View ArticleLondon is a miserable place
Why on earth would anyone choose to live or work there? Today it’s been hot, smelly, noisy, bad-tempered and overcrowded everywhere I’ve been. Breaking with my normal habit, I picked up a copy of the...
View ArticleDo you want a graduate career without getting covered in oozy, yukky stuff?...
According to Chart 4 of 2011/12 destination of leavers from higher education, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, the highest unemployment rates for UK resident graduates with first...
View ArticlePersonality at work
In my first post, I did say that I wasn’t here. Which is still true of course, but last Thursday (14th November) I did manage to make a fleeting visit to the university to listen to a guest lecture by...
View ArticleAn appeal: PAFEC DOGS is worthy of conservation
Recently, there’s been quite a bit of banter in the comments of a post I wrote a couple of years ago about my first employer, PAFEC Ltd. It’s got me thinking. It would be great to try to re-create a...
View ArticleThe Occupational Psychology of Open All Hours
One of the more enjoyable television highlights this Christmas was watching David Jason reprise his role as Granville in Still Open All Hours, which aired Boxing Day on BBC One. Open All Hours, with...
View ArticleThank you Veronica
I famously don’t care all that much for London. Too noisy, smelly and generally uncivilised for my provincial tastes. I’ve spent most of this week working out of our offices in Tower 42 (the former...
View ArticleThe lost restaurant
Bill Bryson in his book The Lost Continent lists seven rules of restaurant dining. For those of my readers who are unfamiliar with his work, these are: Never eat in a restaurant that displays...
View ArticlePerformance appraisals
One of the constants of my working life has been the periodic need to submit to performance appraisals. It doesn’t matter where I’ve worked, the ‘a’ word has invariably come up at one point or another....
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Angela Merkel and David Cameron talk to Software AG at CeBIT
Two photographs I particularly like of their visit to the Software AG stand at CeBIT earlier on today. Software AG’s intelligent business operations platform has British developed software at its...
View ArticleDavid Cameron talks about the benefits of digital technologies
More from CeBIT – David Cameron talks to CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich and Chancellor Angela Merkel about the benefits of digital technologies such as those provided by Software AG. This is very important...
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