Unfolding plans 68 – I’m really really looking forward to #TDC15

Next week I will be attending Thinking Digital 2015, one of the leading events in the North East digital calendar.  I’m not sure if this is the third time or the fourth that I have been.  It doesn’t matter because they are great events and I take so much away from them.  They are an … Continue reading Unfolding plans 68 – I’m really really looking forward to #TDC15

Unfolding plans 67 – She was there to give a message

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.  Once again I was down in London the other day and had the pleasure of going through Kings Cross Station.  Now I like the station and love what the architects have done with the front portico and waiting areas.  It’s no St Pancras yet it is still … Continue reading Unfolding plans 67 – She was there to give a message

Unfolding plan 66 – the lone oddball

I must admit to suffering from the odd pang of... well I’m not sure what it is.  I’ve been working for a while now on trying to change the way that the people work.  It is over a year since I gave up my office, threw out my desk and became a nomadic worker.  I’ve … Continue reading Unfolding plan 66 – the lone oddball

Unfolding plans 65 – excite young people about technology

Number one on my list of things to achieve this year was to try and get more women to work in the ICT industry.  We recently interviewed for some apprentice vacancies.  Of the nineteen applicants not one of them was female.  It’s going to be a long shot yet there seems to be some momentum … Continue reading Unfolding plans 65 – excite young people about technology

Unfolding plans 61 – When I say remote, I mean remote

There are two places that I had never been.  One was inside the National Savings and Investment building in the centre of Durham City and the other was the top of Teesdale.  I’ve been to both now.  Do these count as one or two of the six new things I was going to do this … Continue reading Unfolding plans 61 – When I say remote, I mean remote

Human Zoo

Day twenty six of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’.  I’ve made it to the end.  I’ve managed to write over thirteen thousand words on a subject I knew very little about until now and made some new friends along the way.  So what have I grasped (pun definitely intended)? Firstly that being handed is not … Continue reading Human Zoo

Generation Y

Day twenty five of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’.  Being left-handed has been a problem throughout the ages.  Perhaps a mild irritation would be a better description or even a slight inconvenience.  Either way I have been thinking about whether or not handedness will become a bigger or smaller problem in the future. The answer … Continue reading Generation Y

Writing

Day twenty three of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’.  Oh dear.  I’ve tried to write with my left hand.  I have ended up with the hand-writing of a four year old and the vocabulary of a fifty four year old.  It is as if I am back in infants’ school, sitting at a too small … Continue reading Writing

Scissors

Day nineteen of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’  and I’m struggling with scissors.   They warrant a blog piece of their own.  I’ve been on this earth more than half a century yet dread when the time comes to cut my fingernails.  They grow at an imperceptibly slow pace, the same rate apparently as the spreading … Continue reading Scissors

Quantum

Day seventeen of the ‘Blogging from A-Z Challenge’.  The letter Q is always one of those difficult ones.  What words in the English language could I use to convey something about handedness that begins with a Q?  Quixotic perhaps but queer is definitely a not.  What about Quidditch?  Maybe I could weave some clever reference … Continue reading Quantum