Divorce always looks better in hindsight With only one conversation dominating our media at the moment I have been debating with myself the merits of writing a post about it. I...
Listening to customers When I left school I went to work for a small IT company called Software Catalogue (that became Softcat) which basically sold IT equipment and...
We have been here before Over the past few weeks I have been attending a number of seminars focusing on the future of fibre for the UK and how as...
Electric goes mainstream With Elon Musk in the papers for all the wrong reasons it looks like Tesla is going to get its stiffest competition over the coming...
Some politicians do care I was fortunate to attend a fundraising dinner in London recently for the MP for Plymouth, Johnny Mercer in London. Held at a private members...
Create memories As someone who regularly thinks about death, not in a morbid way just always have, I tend to think about what I would remember on...
Bye bye Facebook For about 11 years I have been a user of Facebook. Originally as the natural successor to Friends Reunited I got interested when they started...
Ariel demonstrates the genius of UK engineering Last week I was super excited to learn that Ariel Motors, designers of the exoskeleton car known as the Atom, are designing and building a...
Dogs in the Office When we moved our offices one of the prerequisites for me was to ensure wherever we ended up we would be allowed dogs in the...
Government needs to understand the facts on pollution I have been reading with interest the developments this year in relation to car emissions, specifically, but also the continuing development of Dieselgate (VW’s emission...
Pocket Rocket To break my six month sabbatical from the blog I wanted to talk about my new toy which arrived the day before my birthday in...
A better use of hybrid I have owned by Golf GTE now for over a year and while I am still very impressed with electric technology, I am not as...
You make your own luck A very good friend of mine, Jimmy, was diagnosed a year ago with bone cancer in his ankle shortly after attending my wedding and after...
Do not underestimate the value of resilience With BT currently suffering a lot of negative publicity in the last two days with two major outages caused by power issues in two London...
No such thing as too much power I had a very enjoyable weekend recently with my wife and daughter down on the south coast in Salcombe and even managed to see the...