Unfolding plans 105 – a good story

We always try to start our management meetings with a good story or two.  It gets everything off to a nice start before we get into the inevitable not so good things that crop up.  Some of us can always find something to say.  Sometimes it is relevant and sometimes it’s not.  Sometimes it helps … Continue reading Unfolding plans 105 – a good story

Unfolding plans 87 – I’m an early adopter

I'm an early adopter.  My twitter handle is @philjackman with no underscores or numbers.  I didn't have to bastardise my name or think of some clever pseudonym.  I'm just me.  I’ve also kept my phil_jackman@hotmail.com address for the same reason and I’m happy with my WordPress account philjackman.  They’re easy to remember and easy to … Continue reading Unfolding plans 87 – I’m an early adopter

Unfolding plans 86 – no internet access

My WiFi at home is broken. It's like we've gone back to the dark ages if not the Stone Age. Everything I have taken for granted when using my connected devices over the last few years has disappeared. Chickens have come home to roost. I've had to rely on 3G through the phone. I don't … Continue reading Unfolding plans 86 – no internet access

Our inexorable journey towards our virtual destiny

So you thought I was a bit off-beam with my blog 'And man will live for evermore'  in that man and machine will become one?  It wasn’t meant to be a dystopian view of how the machines would take over, where our creations would eventually enslave us but rather a utopian view of how man … Continue reading Our inexorable journey towards our virtual destiny

The Insinkerator

The Flintstones had a pig underneath their sink that would eat all the scraps of food that Fred and Wilma left on their plates.  We don’t though, instead we have an Insinkerator Model 45 which macerates all of our leftover food items and flushes them through the waste pipe at least we did have as … Continue reading The Insinkerator