After popping back to visit the parents at the weekend we decided to drop into BlueWater to get some lunch. I wouldn’t normally suggest going to a huge shopping centre in a dug out chalk pit weeks before Christmas but I wanted to go and have a look at a coat which had been calling […]
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I’ve finally discovered what FUD means. It wasn’t top of my list of things to do but as I was browsing my blog feeds one of the posts spelt it out for me.
F = Fear
U = Uncertainty
D = Doubt
I don’t like FUD, it’s something I hate being a prisoner of and I make sure that in […]
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I’ve been fortunate to have a job which allows me to move up and down the Channel from the end-user right up to those in control at vendor level such as Microsoft, HP, and Symantec. I get the opportunity to engage with lots of different people and spread what, when you distill it, is pretty […]
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Hello all,
I reluctantly went shopping today; yes that’s right, I don’t really enjoy shopping unless I know exactly what I want. Today, I went to Bluewater to shop for a dress for my friend’s wedding next weekend. After a few hours of getting fed up touring the shops to find nothing but beach and casual […]
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Many of us understand the phrase ‘prevention is better than cure’ and indeed this has never been truer than in the case of protecting your IT and the information stored within it.
A few months ago, I was lucky enough to present to the Women in Business Conference on the subject of what IT can do […]
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The New York Times recently posted an article (by Eric Sylvers) about mobile phone companies reducing the number of mobile Operating Systems that they choose to support technically.
“Two operating systems run more than 95 percent of the world’s computers, but dozens of systems are behind the 2.5 billion mobile phones in circulation”
One of things I […]
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The latest version of the Microsoft’s Technology Assessment Toolkit (version 3.0.0.0) went live on last week and can be downloaded by Microsoft Partners.
I’ve been helping the development team in Redmond with this for the last few months and I would like to point out that there has been a lot of work put into this […]
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Vlad has released our latest show to the masses as a little festive treat to the community. Show #25 focuses on the ever-popular topic of managed services and we’ve taken the opportunity to interview Erick Simpson for a special two parter as he talks about his book and how he turned their business around from […]
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I have found someone more passionate about OneNote than I am! They’ve even gone one step further and written a song about it! It’s not even naff and is quite perky - maybe you could cheer up your clients when your sales pitch is crashing and burning!
Here’s the link to the song (mp3 so you can […]
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Yes that’s right reader, I want to share with you a story about how four men and myself spent the night with the man of our dreams…
Let me set the scene; imagine tripping up accidentally on a restaurant that we had talked about visiting at a time when we were hungry with nowhere to go. […]
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