COVID has made for a challenging year, but a lot of good has come out of it. Forcing many of us into a socially-distanced, work-from-home mode has accelerated what, for many, was inevitable in working-practices. The benefits of doing your job from home are now been realised by up to half of the population, and […]
A changing world has changed how we think about urban space And it’s not the virus that has caused this, but the indirect secondary effects of home-based working and online retail that has changed how we see, and what we need from urban areas. Over the centuries we’ve seen pandemics wipe out population centres, but […]
…Is my stock answer when folks ask me how web-sites work! The digital world shares much in common with the relatively ancient world of watch craft so it acts as a great metaphor when explaining how the digital world is designed and engineered. The beauty that is the watch metaphor The elegance of a good […]
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As the first wave of the pandemic subsides we now see a new normal starting to be forged. Last year you might have sniggered at folks on the tube wearing masks, or pitied those that worked from home. The new normal is starting to be, erm, normal. And that means avoiding crowds, more specifically, unnecessary […]
The new normal may not be virtual, but it’s certainly a lot less corporeal. The world has been rocked off its axis this year due to Coronavirus snd the social upheaval is huge, and life-changing for many. Millions of people have been forced to work from home, relying on digital links and services to do […]
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Just about seven weeks since the country went into lockdown, and three months after the first reported deaths in the UK and it looks like we finally have the end in sight. It’s been a terrible time for the country: over 30,000 dead, 6m folks off work, families ripped apart, and households pushed to breaking […]
As the COVID-19 outbreak v1.0 passes the peak, the light at the end of the tunnel is now clearly visible. Yes, it is still a month or two before we’re even beginning to get a sense of what this might be. But it is different; the world is different. The light at the end of […]
As the CV19 outbreak really starts to take hold we’re seeing some clients scrap their digital advertising plans. I think this is crazy and short-sighted. Just because a business is not able to function in its entirety, there is no reason it can’t keep ticking over to maintain what are essential services. I once described […]
Five years ago we wrote about how the cloud had changed our business, from the early cloud days in 2008 of tentatively moving project management and then email onto the cloud. Well, a decade on and we’ve moved on, too. Everything we use, from ticket management to resource control, in-house communication to accounting is all […]
The tension between needs and wants is often what fires the ambition in us all. Sadly we listen to the voice in our head that says “more”, even when we know that is rarely the right answer. Giving into needless drive is the fastest way to create an unhealthy life/work environment and balance – In […]
Back at the dawn of this century, and years before the iPhone ruined everything, the Blackberry was king of the hill. It was the device that democratised mobile email and business communications. In fact, it unwittingly set the ground-work for the “always on” existence that plagues us today. It’s vice-like grip on email and BBM, […]
The computing world is changing. It’s no longer about unlimited computing power and bandwidth – both are in increasingly short supply due to the end of Moore’s law and the increasing carbon cost of processing our lives. Bill Gates famously wrote the entire Basic compiler in 16k because resources were tight, he had to. Today, […]
I’ve not heard that said round these parts in over a decade, probably even this century. So here goes … Microsoft are committed to be “net carbon positive” over it’s lifetime. So they’re going back to when they were founded in 1975, work out their total CO2 emissions and then arrange, through afforestation probably, to […]
It’s not that the platform is bad per se. In fact, WordPress is pretty much the best web framework and platform today. WordPress drives over a third of the world’s web-sites, almost two-thirds of the CMS market space and most of the top companies use WordPress somewhere in their portfolio. It’s open-source, extensible, well-supported, easy […]
2019 was a belter: 2,611 tickets logged in 5,309 client interactions and a 100% client satisfaction score. That works out as one ticket successfully solved every 29 working minutes. Gotta raise your hat to the support team! 2019 also marks our third successive year of a 100% client satisfaction rating. Whilst the numbers clearly speak […]
If there is one thing that stands out in the modern age it’s the sheer volume of digital noise. It’s relentless, clamouring for what remains of our ever stressed mental capacity. Come the next decade, we are going to make a lot less noise, we’re going to speak a little quieter, and above all avoid […]
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Much is made of the work grind, to some that’s expressed as 996, or 9 am to 9 pm six days a week. That sounds a bit grim – and not very conducive to a healthy mind and body, one would suspect. It’s not fair on the team, their family and wellbeing. We operate a […]
Important dates for the holiday It’s time to chill, spend quality time with friends and family, so as per usual we will be officially closed over the extended holiday period, from late on the 21st of Dec thru to the 5th of Jan. SUPPORT & DEVOPS 18th Dec: last day for NEW support tickets 19th […]
Corporate responsibility has become a thing. In fact, it was always a thing but just maybe unpopular with business thinking and very much out of step with the classical MBA-driven approach to business created in the last century. The tide has turned. Good old-fashioned corporate greed is no longer acceptable, especially when executed at the […]
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Next year, Chatham House in St James’s Square turns 100 years old, the Royal Institute setup after the Great War to encourage collaboration on economics and politics to create a better world. Staffed by the thinking elite seeking great truths, it (and its American cousin) influenced world leaders and moulded global policy for one hundred […]
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