Carly to run with McCain?
McCain has said he’s not as strong on economics as he is on national security, so he needs accomplished business leaders, like Fiorina, advising him.
In case anyone reading has never heard of Carly Fiorina, she was CEO of HP for a few years. Her time there was so accomplished that […]
There are 2 reasons that I shop at John Lewis. 1) Service. 2) Price. It’s interesting how often I talk to people who assume that the upmarket department store chain is somehow expensive. Which isn’t to say that they don’t have some items that are really expensive (like the full-size ice cream maker that I’m […]
Gerry Robinson (ex-Granada, ex-Allied Domecq) has spent 6 months looking into the NHS. There’s a TV series on it starting this week, that I intend to follow, but there’s also a little taster from yesterday’s Telegraph.
It sounds like Gerry’s investigations show the same attitude I sense when I go into hospitals….
The theatres simply weren’t being […]
There’s been quite some discussion around the decision by Microsoft to send out some very nice top-of-the-range Acer Ferrari laptops preloaded with Windows Vista to a number of high ranking bloggers.
I’ve had a little think on the subject, and I’ve decided that it doesn’t do any favours to accept such gifts. Even as "review products". […]
Post Office Closures
The government says the 800 smallest post offices in the UK are used by an average of 16 people a week and that the rural network is currently supported by an annual subsidy of £150m.
Anyone like to hazard a guess at the subsidy per customer? I’ll bet it’s even more than the subsidy […]
I’m currently working on a site in Wordpress for someone, and as part of it, I want to have menus with submenus like:-
Category Page Page
Category Page
without Category also having a link. I’ve discovered that Wordpress stores posts and pages in the same table, which means there’s a category there, although it’s not used for […]
Sean Wilson and I took a trip to the IOD for one of their fortnightly social evenings. It’s Bristol, which means a trek, but conversations with Sean and Bend Sinister made the time pass nicely.
It was a really good evening spent talking to some really pleasant and interesting people about their businesses and plans, and […]
The Observer reported at the weekend: Why Vista will mean the end of the Microsoft monolith
This is just wishful thinking on someone’s part. Microsoft isn’t close to being finished. I have rarely seen someone running Linux, Unix or a Mac on their desktop in a large corporation. The times that I have, they were engineers, […]
I’ve just read Steve Pavlina’s Ten Reasons You Should Never Get A Job. Here’s my thoughts:-
1. Income for Dummies
Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work.
Easy, if the job you are in involves […]
Wired has a good article about how some bands, for various reasons are holding out from selling on iTunes.
One of the reasons is that artists want their work to be enjoyed as a full piece of work, and not just a single track. I have some sympathy with this view.
There are lots of good albums […]
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