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Microsoft – pull yer finger out!

I’ve blogged regularly about how much I hate Vista, Office 2007, Outlook 2007 … you name it.   I thought my friends might appreciate the latest moan.   As many of you know, I make presentations for my living, or at least as a large part of it. So I depend upon PowerPoint.   This…

Solving the Greenhouse Gas issue

At a presentation this week, someone said that computers emit more greenhouse gases than the airline industry as a whole.  About 4% of all gases are from the IT industry apparently. Cows emit more gas than computers however.  The numbers are horrific: at any time, 23 million cows are grazing across Europe between 9% and…

Cow

Solving the Greenhouse Gas issue

At a presentation this week, someone said that computers emit more greenhouse gases than the airline industry as a whole.  About 4% of all gases are from the IT industry apparently. Cows emit more gas than computers however.  The numbers are horrific: at any time, 23 million cows are grazing across Europe between 9% and…

Cow

Solving the Greenhouse Gas issue

At a presentation this week, someone said that computers emit more greenhouse gases than the airline industry as a whole.  About 4% of all gases are from the IT industry apparently. Cows emit more gas than computers however.  The numbers are horrific: at any time, 23 million cows are grazing across Europe between 9% and…

Cow

The Schizophrenic Banker

Yesterday was a day full of interesting dialogue about retail banking. Much of the discussion was focused upon future revolutions in retailing bank services, thanks to technologies such as getting rid of cash through mobile payments, using RFID in branch, virtualisation and transformation of core systems, business continuity, Banking 2.0 with social networking, and so…

The Schizophrenic Banker

Yesterday was a day full of interesting dialogue about retail banking. Much of the discussion was focused upon future revolutions in retailing bank services, thanks to technologies such as getting rid of cash through mobile payments, using RFID in branch, virtualisation and transformation of core systems, business continuity, Banking 2.0 with social networking, and so…

Numbers Part 11: the Royal Bank of Scotland

Everyone knows that I’m a devil for numbers, with the series now up to #11 (last one was on eBay here).  As a result, if someone sends me some numbers and I like them, then I always put them in the blog. Today’s numbers are really good though, as they come from a bank.  I say…

The challenge of our real-time, multi-tasking world

I was sitting at my PC today, drafting my blog whilst skirting over the news headlines on my iGoogle homepage. There were a few other windows open on my PC. One for Wimbledon live on the BBC, which I can now watch through live streaming video. I like to listen to the radio commentary, so…

Spain win Euro 2008 thanks to Twitter

Actually, it’s the other way round: Germany lose Euro 2008 thanks to Twitter, according to CNet News. If you’re not familiar with Twitter,  it’s a great way to communicate short messages and links and views, using SMS texting on mobile, blackberry, as well as short updates via Facebook or the internet to Twitter. It’s an…

Spain win Euro 2008 thanks to Twitter

Actually, it’s the other way round: Germany lose Euro 2008 thanks to Twitter, according to CNet News. If you’re not familiar with Twitter,  it’s a great way to communicate short messages and links and views, using SMS texting on mobile, blackberry, as well as short updates via Facebook or the internet to Twitter. It’s an…