2008
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Landfill Indie
Great article about the current state of the UK music scene. Now, whilst I disagree that the Fratellis fall into this camp and feel it is a tad harsh to blame all of this on the Arctic Monkeys, the article mirrors my current thoughts, largely fuelled by listening to X-FM in the morning commute to…
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More nothing
I’m not sure if it’s the lull after the last few frantic weeks but I find myself ebbing between tasks, bumping around on the current, rudderless for the moment, with nary a breeze to prod me gently onwards. In saying that I did re-organise the bedroom yesterday, whilst Louise shampooed the living room carpet. We…
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Normality resumed
… whatever that is… As the week draws to a close my mood is liftening (err… that’d be “lightening” and “lifting”) considerably. I’ve spent the last week facilitating meetings which have the teams looking at how they work and coming up with improvements. To get to the improvements they are asked to consider what went…
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Quick iPhone Thoughts
Whilst it isn’t as full featured as, say, the HTC Touch Diamond, I can’t think of anything that I’m really missing. Text messages appearing as a conversation thread is so much better than the traditional display method (one text per screen). Intuitive? Very. Although there are a few funny things, for example, you CAN set…
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Stop Writing Manuals
No-one reads the documentation anyway, so why do we persist in writing user guides, instruction manuals and all the other types of document-centric information silos that we all quietly loathe creating in the first place? Unless you have a contractual agreement to compile information into a document, it’s our job to figure out how best…
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Learning Lessons
I love making mistakes. Really I do. Sure they can be painful, costly and time consuming but let’s look at the positives here, every time you make a mistake you can learn something new. How great is that! As part of our release cycle, we conduct a series of retrospective meetings, one per team, in…