Archive for the 'Business' Category

Failing Vision

2/02/2006

I go through phases of reading Paul Scrivens’ sites (I like them but as with anything, I read faster than he writes), recently I was reading some stuff on Whitespace, Scrivs’ first site (I think), he now has so many he could branch off and form his own internet. The post was titled 5 [...]

6 of One

7/06/2005

You know, there are times when I wonder about journalism. You see, the BBC has had, on successive days, two contradictory stories. The first, published on Wednesday, was about how the public is worried about online identity fraud and stated that 13% [of people] had abandoned online shopping. Then on Thursday they [...]

Bow to Branson

18/04/2005

For some reason I was looking for information on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker island (it came up in conversation recently and intrigued me). While searching for the Necker site, I came across an interview done by Fortune magazine back in 2003. It’s a very interesting read, a great insight to a man who [...]

Big Bucks

14/04/2005

Kottke has a link to another interesting article. This one concerns the difference in earnings related to height, weight and beauty (which goes some way to explaining why I earn so little). There are some big charted differences. I would like to point out, however, that the conclusions that Kristie Engemann and [...]

Sort IT

8/02/2005

The IT department is constantly under threat in most companies. When the economy is doing well, IT gets some leeway, a few projects get started. When the economy takes a down turn, IT spending is the first thing to get cut. Which is daft if you think about it. What system [...]

OrderTakeaway.co.uk

4/10/2004

I’d like to start by confessing that this is a blatant plug, but it’s my site, so I can do what I want.
I’ve been working on an idea for some time and it’s now about ready to launch. OrderTakeaway.co.uk is a directory that allows you to search for takeaways (i.e. fast food) in your [...]

Essential New Words for the Workplace Environment

25/08/2004

I got this from somewhere recently, can’t remember exactly where, but I thought I’d share it with you anyhow. How many do you recognise?
Testiculating:
~ Waving your arms around and talking bollocks. (I know people who’d get an honours degree in this, and not necessarily just people at work)
Blamestorming:
~ Sitting around in [...]

IMDb.com

5/08/2004

I’ve just read an article about IMDb.com and I was surprised to find that it was started by a Brit. It’s owned by Amazon now, but it was all started by a 35 year old programmer back in 1990 who just wanted to keep a record of the phenomenal number of films he watched [...]

The Corporation (aka Big Business)

27/06/2004

I was in the middle of a long rant on this subject, right in the middle of detailing just how many film companies have sister businesses in every conceivable area of media, when I hit the close tab button and lost everything. So, I decided that meant I wasn’t supposed to tell you about [...]

IT: Office Saviour

10/05/2004

It was immense joy I read this article about the National Health Service (NHS) employing IT in an application for which it was intended. I know this may come as a shock to some people, but IT is actually designed to help people achieve results more efficiently. A key role to increasing efficiency [...]