Okay, if you are old enough to remember Robert Lyndsey’s Wolfie Smith then you can feel you’re on the inside. Another difficult day at the office triggered a slightly surreal conversation “Who’s to blame?” The conversation soon took a turn…
Yearly Archives: 2014
The new frontier in data analysis?
Where is the new frontier in data analysis? I tried to work this out.Let me explain the question further. I’m a bit of a geek. I try to hide it, but in those moments no-one is looking too closely, I…
Schools might not have books anymore!
I liked this story in the news. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26249041 It appealed to my inner-geek, and also made me think about the amount of paper I lug around. I like the idea of kids having a tablet or similar device to simply…
Big Data Institute
I’m always quite sceptical of politicians when they extol the virtues of a dead genius, but in amongst all the fluff that is usual on budget day, there was this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26651179 I read Andrew Hodges ‘Enigma of Intelligence’ years ago,…
The Big Day
Finally made it! Got here a few minutes early, walking around a university again feels strange. I’ve not been asked whether I’ve voted in student elections yet. Lewis advocates education and democracy, but I am still tending towards a vote…
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An Internet of Opportunities
I was reading some statistics the other day. How would these types of numbers make you think about the type of services you were designing and about how your business might focus itself: E-commerce accounts for £44billion of the total…
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My First Mistake…
Okay, actually not *MY* first mistake, but a homage to Jon Bentley. No, not the bloke from the Gadget Show, but the really smart guy that wrote Programming Pearls and well, lots of stuff. If you don’t know who he…
Smith’s Co-efficient
I mentioned this a couple of times in previous posts. I can’t really claim this as mine, but to be honest the seed of an idea was planted so long ago that I forget whoever it was that first gave…
Why are there only 12 signs of the zodiac?
I’ve got a few minutes to try and organise my random thoughts further. So I think that employability really comes down to three things: Technical skills Soft skills Rapport at interview Technical skills isn’t necessarily progamming skills, but they are…
I should explain….
The lecture I’m doing has a loose subject of ‘Employ-ability’ and ‘A career in IT’. I’ve had a career in IT mainly because I really wasn’t much good at anything else, and I had a few lucky breaks. But if…
Full Metal Aardvark 