Posted on January 14, 2013 The Construction Products Association’s latest forecast for this year is that there will be a further 2% decline in construction industry output on top of the already devastating 9% decline that we saw in 2012. The decline is expected to be in most sectors. A Continue Reading
Win 8 Launch
Posted on December 5, 2012 We always try to run a new operating system through its paces before it goes mainstream – that way we can start designing our products to take advantage of the features that will be coming down the track as the new system goes mainstream . Continue Reading
New Server 2012
Posted on December 6, 2012 In Sept 2012 we undertook a major upgrade of our web hosting servers. Because of long days and hard nights our Denaploy team successfully transferred all our sites without missing a beat. As always happens with these things, we now have a server that has Continue Reading
Win 8 – Menu systems
Posted on December 11, 2012 One of the changes that Win 8 brings is an attempt to make the menu area less cluttered. The way this is achieved is to only show those menu options that are likely to be needed. Let me demonstrate what I mean with an example. Continue Reading
Ecommerce up 12% – Xmas 2012
Posted on December 22, 2012 The early results from the credit card industry suggest that while Christmas shopping is up 3% this year on last year, the shift towards online shopping continues with a 12% growth on last year and even this understates the potential with our own magazine subscription Continue Reading
A fall in GDP might be a good thing
Two consecutive quarters of declining GDP is the definition of recession and a general cause of economic panic which can make further decline a self fulfilling prophecy. But there is something I don’t understand…. I am sure that most of you have heard of ‘Moore’s Law’ – the prediction by Continue Reading
O&M manuals in foreign languages
Large corporates have a special problem in managing their O&M manuals. On the one hand they need to have information to hand in order to centrally manage their FM services across all their locations, and on the other hand they need information readily available for the local tradesmen who will Continue Reading
The Chocolate Teapot analogy
You are standing in a bar and a couple of guys nearby get into a heated argument. The first says that there is a chocolate teapot in orbit around Jupiter; The second equally violently asserts that it is impossible. They debate the issue from all sides – why chocolate instead Continue Reading
Hadron Collider
I was just listening to a science programme and it described the camera that is used in the giant Hadron collider that is searching for the Higgs Boson or God particle in CERN. Apparently the camera that captures the images of the collision is the equivalent of a 100M pixel Continue Reading
100 Mbps broadband for every citizen by 2015
Posted on January 6, 2012 Unfortunately, that is only in Finland or South Korea where higher speed broadband access is recognised as both a human right and a vital commercial necessity. Here in England most of us are still dawdling along at 6Mbps downloads and <1Mbps upload speeds, while Continue Reading