Pre Christmas gloom following Osborne’s scary Autumn statement has settled like a cloak of depression over the whole country. A wasted decade of zero or less GDP growth, unemployed youth and 50 year olds thrown onto a scrap heap that is becoming cruelly indifferent to their plight. Business cut backs Continue Reading
Data Feed opens new markets for INEA
INEA presented a new data feed that enables estate agents to add high levels of functionality to their websites at very low cost. The Independent Network of Estate Agents yesterday launched an XML data feed that supplies a WordPress plug in with all the details of the properties the agent Continue Reading
Confidence is good for the individual and bad for the organisation
We all look to experts in order to help us navigate round an increasingly complex world. The difficulty is in working out who to trust? Is it the person who shows plenty of self confidence and never admits either being wrong, or not knowing? Or the quiet self deprecating person Continue Reading
Construction Sector Slows
Posted on November 12, 2011 The latest quarterly survey by the Office for National Statistics shows a fall of 0.6% since the last quarter and a fall of 1.8% compared with the same quarter last year. (Where the construction industry is defined as: construction and demolition work, civil engineering, new Continue Reading
The Greek Financial Crisis – June 2011
Posted on June 19, 2011 There is at least a chance that we will look back on the next 3 months as the time the world stopped!!! The country of Greece has a sovereign debt of about $500bn, which is just a bit less than that of Lehman Bank when Continue Reading
An atheist in a moral universe
There was a time when the possibility of the earth revolving round the sun was the subject of much debate and, since there was a limited amount of evidence, it was basically a matter of belief and philosophy. Today there is no longer any serious debate, not least because we Continue Reading
Vote yes for AV on the 5th May
Posted on April 17, 2011 At the last election I was fairly ambivalent as to which party I supported, which is unusual for me. But I was pretty certain that I did not want the Conservatives to win! I was sure that the Osborne form of sado-masochistic economic policy in Continue Reading
Professionals now face automation
Artificial intelligence has long been the promise of the computer industry’s future, but until recently it has been characterised by a failure to deliver on almost all fronts. But there is now a serious risk to the professional classes that over the next decade their right to power, status and Continue Reading
Win 7 libraries
There is a quite useful new feature in Window 7 called Libraries. In essence it is a search service Lets assume there are customer folders on the network that you go to regularly, you can set up a new Library for ‘Customers’ and then link to the various customer folders Continue Reading
Commercial Property Market 2011
The Bank of England reports that 4 out of 5 loans to property owners and developers are in breach of their loan-to-valuation covenants. A total of £243 billion of commercial property loans exist and hang over the whole market. The risk is that property valuations have been maintained artificially high in an Continue Reading