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Twitter recently announced that they would be removing replies to people you do not follow from the timeline. In my view, and that of just about everyone I know and follow, that is highly undesirable and eliminates a large part of what was unique about Twitter. Now it has taken a giant leap back in time to IRC-days.

I’ve swum with sharks in the Red Sea; I’ve snowboarded at 70 m.p.h at ridiculous risk to body and limb in Canada; I’ve rode my Ducati at over 160mph, but what I did last week was far more frightening. I became the first woman to tandem skydive past Mount Everest and I was very, very nervous. It took us about…

As more people “wake up” to climate change we are seeing a lot of effort put towards starting to reduce our collective green-house gas emissions. Unfortunately however, there seems to be a lack of quantitative data being applied to many of these efforts, and consequently the media, individuals and business are often focusing on the wrong issues rather than putting…

In March, with the promise of Summer around the corner, I was eying up my somewhat battered bicycle and contemplating last year’s resolution to actually use it to cycle to work when the weather was pleasant. Not only would it be better for me, but as the boss of a company with a serious commitment to minimising the environmental impact…

Well, it has been over 3 months since I last posted, which is rather feeble! In my defense I have been insanely busy – winning various awards for service and innovation does rather take up one’s time *looks smug*. Seriously though, trying to write a sensible blog (OK, look, I did say “trying”!) is surprisingly time consuming, but I am…

To give the guys a break I had been doing the Christmas on-call. Keeping a weather-eye on our plethora of monitoring systems I noticed a spike in bandwidth usage from one of our customer’s servers. A few moments later the cause is obvious; some script kiddie has hacked in and started up a bit torrent site serving various illegal rips…

“Corporate Social Responsibility”; yet another of those buzz-phrases that seems to be bandied about ever more, but there is more to it than perhaps first meets the eye and there are many ways in which socially responsible practices are good for business. What’s more, IT businesses seem ideally placed to lead the way. Many large corporates now have a CSR…

“Shoot ‘em in the head!” was a shout to be heard emanating from our office late on Friday afternoon. No, not an attack of killer-zombies, but actually some research & development work…

I’m frequently out and about and on trains (usually between Guildford and London), and always try to make good use of the time. The ability to work anywhere is important to me, and I think I might have finally cracked it! Up until recently I had been using a massive Dell Inspiron 9100, which is a great laptop as long…

Hello LiveJournal! I have decided to move my blog here to make use of the excellent setup (no point reinventing the wheel!) and to make it a bit more public. This blog/journal is some of my thoughts, comments and experiences on issues facing UK Information Communications Technology (ICT) & businesses from the perspective of a young entrepreneur; the Managing Director…