David Coveney

At the risk of sound­ing like an MS Fan­boi, I thought I’d bring up Microsoft Office One­Note. I’ve been using this pack­age for gen­eral note-taking for some time now, and I’m find­ing it to be an incred­ibly use­ful piece of software.

Thing is — it’s quite hard to explain. It’s a free­form note tak­ing application, […]

Blah blah blah fas­cin­at­ing intro­duc­tion blah blah read this blah blah simple list, should only take a few minutes blah blah oh come ON you swines… just click on the link, OK?!

I don’t talk much about busi­ness on this blog, but I’ve decided to share what I’m doing to increase my pro­ductiv­ity at work. So far these changes are mak­ing a great deal of difference.

The UK Health & Safety Exec­ut­ive is run by largely sens­ible, clear minded folk that want to help us to keep doing what we do, but ideally without los­ing fin­gers, testicles or lives.
So why do they get so much flack?  Why do we keep hear­ing tales of chil­dren not being allowed to play in snow, in […]

Auto­matic Rising Bol­lards — in my opin­ion a dan­ger­ous haz­ard that can cause ser­i­ous dam­age to prop­erty and injury to car occu­pants. Come on guys — you can think of bet­ter ways to keep traffic out.…

SaaS rocks, but it’s not the be all and end all. But it is hot right now (again) and will con­tinue to be so for quite some time. How­ever, Rich Inter­net Applic­a­tions (RIAs) driven by the likes of Flex and Sil­ver­light could be return­ing us to a Cli­ent Server paradigm and is prob­ably the way for­ward — bring­ing SaaS and local pro­cessing bene­fits to users.

Inflate a prob­lem, lie about it, redefine some words, and hey presto! You have a way to make a new law that will prob­ably cause a lot of harm but will tick the boxes of cer­tain voters whilst not ali­en­at­ing others.