Control and Prespective

By On September 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Getting Things Done, Personal Effectiveness, Project Management

One of the key points from the talk by David Allen yesterday was about maintaining Control and Perspective. Control through the five phases of workflow and planning and perspective through working with the horizons of focus.

This is something I have been continually used to get a realistic picture of my world and clarity [...]

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David Allen at the LBF

By On September 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Getting Things Done, Personal Effectiveness, Project Management

I have just been to the LBF David Allan seminar and found it to be extremely useful in focusing on the key concepts and questions to ask rather than going in to detail on the mechanics of GTD.

One of the key points were that 95% of improvment is systematic.

I will think this over [...]

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IC Scotland – Launch event of the new brand

By On June 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Institute of Consulting

The last IC Scotland event ran at the Festival Theatre to a mix of IC, CMI and non members the focus of the event was procurement and we will be posting a link to all the slides online shortly. With interest being expressed in the new developments and hopefully a closer working relationship with education [...]

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David Allen at the DO Lectures

By On March 20, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Getting Things Done, Personal Effectiveness

David Allen talking at the Do Lectures

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Bodugi.com Launch Night

By On March 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

The launch party of Bodugi one of the best projects I have worked on over the last 12 Months, Look out for the integration to Facebook and more to come in the future.

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Microsoft to embrace ARM

By On January 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Future Thinking, User Experience

Microsoft essentially has two operating systems the NT derived OS such as Windows 7 and an ARM compatable mobile OS based on CE such as Windows Phone 7. It is logical then for Microsoft to licence the ARM architecture although possible not to defend the existing desktop environment, more to possible look at the development [...]

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HTML5 and CSS3

By On December 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Future Thinking, Software Development, User Experience

Is the advent of HTML5 and CSS3 going to make an impact on the quality of the web? I believe so which is most of the new projects we are doing focus on using this new technology coupled with the fact it works on the iPad.

This overly dramatic but equally as funny vide from [...]

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Homeless Mustard preforms “Woulda Been”

By On December 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

Big Stevie had a link to this guy on Facebook and 2 songs later I bought the album on iTunes, just some amazing music.

Get the album from http://www.danielmustardmusic.com/

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Thoughts on Cloud

By On November 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud Computing, Future Thinking, Open Source

A New Cloud

What are the general issues

Thoughts on structure of understanding

The initial thought that lead to this concept was based on looking at the fundamental issues and separating them as much as possible from technology. Technology is important but fundamental design should in principle be removed from an individual technology.

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DADAPP

By On October 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Diary, IT Project Management, Management Information System, Software Development, User Experience

Today sees the launch of DADAPP an application to organise, index and share files with any one or no one. The team I work with worked on the Photo element of this application and We/I have some ideas to develop other applications on top.

Watch this video of the DAD staff.

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