I read with interest an article on the BBC website recently regarding new developments in harnessing wind power: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10217289.stm Now most of us I am sure are used to seeing wind turbines in our local environment, even my local school has two on its grounds, but the thought of having a wind farm in the [...]
An article I came across recently concerning internal attempts at cost cutting shows that when people do try this themselves their attempts can range from the sublime to the ridiculous http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/31/2010_server_budgets/. The authors comment that “these plans are ill-fated due to a combination of short-term thinking, utter incompetence, and probably a heaping helping of toadying [...]
As always the devil is in the detail. An article published in Comms News today, 1 April 2010, details the air traffic chaos that was caused by a mobile phone demonstration when a laser pointer on a mobile phone had been slightly over powered by the engineers!!! The full article is available at http://www.commsbusiness.co.uk/RSS_News_Articles.cfm?NewsID=10662. I [...]
Apologies for those who read this blog regularly, and you never know there may be some of you out there with nothing better to do, I omitted the link to the “Printer Ink is dearer than blood” story so here it is: http://gizmodo.com/212444/hp-ink-costs-more-than-human-blood-booze So now I have corrected that little area on to a couple [...]
Apologies the blog has been quiet for the last 10 days or so. Not that I have had nothing to write about, just that I have been away on my technical training course and so have had other commitments on my time. I am now a fully fledged cost management consultant, ready to fly the [...]
Well the first week is over!! I said I would keep you updated as to how I was getting on as a self employed consultant and so here is part2. I survived!! Actually that is a little bit unfair on myself not only did I survive but I have thrived. The freedom self employment gives [...]
Those of you who read my first entry into the world of blogging will be aware that I have recently taken the plunge into the world of self-employment and joined Auditel as a cost and purchase management consultant. Have I stepped from the frying pan into the fire I ask myself? Is there a more [...]