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Fun with BAA

Posted on August 2, 2009 by alex

BAA is British Airports Authority.  They ‘run’ the main airports around London which include Heathrow, Gatwick and Standsted.  Unfortunately, Heathrow T5 is the centre of operations for British Airways.  I say ‘unfortunately’ because travelling through T5 is a thoroughly unpleasant … Continue reading →

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TDC kicks off to a 2nd great day

Posted on May 15, 2009 by alex

The Thinking Digital Conference kicked off to a great start on it’s second (and last) day.  The comedy of Tom Scott was a fabulous tonic to the rest of the first session which kicked off with an exploration od “Digital … Continue reading →

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Extreme Window Cleaning at the Sage

Posted on May 14, 2009 by alex

The picture says it all.  (Had a twitter failure, this was supposed to be a twitpic …)

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Excel is too buggy to be used?

Posted on March 19, 2009 by alex

Interesting post by Rob Wier about year and date problems in Excel.  I’m using OpenOffice instead.  They’ve hopefully fixed the problem in Excel by now though?

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Losing Liferea

Posted on March 19, 2009 by alex

… has probably been the best thing that has happened to me on my desktop.  It started after an update on Intrepid 8.20 which broke Liferea and stopped it from running.  The effect has been to stop me reading endless … Continue reading →

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Jasper and Cat Doors

Posted on July 15, 2007 by alex

Yesterday, Jasper, one of our cats, managed to ‘lock’ himself into the house next door. I say ‘lock’, but that was merely his interpretation. He decided he would go next door for sleep (and probably food), but there is a … Continue reading →

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Born Global

Posted on July 14, 2007 by alex

I was reading the June/July 2007 edition of the IET Engineering Management Journal and was struck by a piece of research that’s been done in Finland by a Siv Karlson around companies that don’t bother to develop their national markets … Continue reading →

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