Whilst were were all working from home the question above was irrelevant as you were always at home with the first attempt at communication via Microsoft Teams. Now that we are blending locations between home and the office (and now holidays) this question starts to get a little more complex. In an attempt to resolve this I have started using the Teams status message to tell anyone who is after me where I am. This image shows what I have…
Hi Its been a while since I made an entry in my blog but this issue has been bubbling under and I have now reached the point at which I need to vent / explain. This entry will consist of 2 parts, the first one being based on my experience of recruitment companies who either want to place “the best engineer EVER” with me or attempting to create a dialogue with me. Part 1 Firstly, as a University we are…
I was going to call this post “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it use the cloud” but I thought better of it. Any techie reading this would instantly think I am knocking the cloud but they would be completely wrong. What I am attempting to say is that cloud should be the norm and those dirty things call physical servers are the exception. The user community has accepted the cloud but IT departments and…
Most organisations base the replacement on Personal Computer hardware on age, whilst not the ideal place to be its a start and ensures continual investment. Heres my Journey…. 6 years ago, here at Nottingham Trent University, after 4 years of use a Student facing computer would be replace. This 4 year old computer would then be assigned to an Academic and after 3 years of use it would finally be allocated to Professional Services. Not idea, although to be honest…
I am starting to get excited as in 2 weeks time we start our American Adventure. We fly from Heathrow to Washington, 5 nights there, then 8 hour train journey to Boston, 5 nights there, and finally drive to Cap Cod. I have no idea what to expect but Heather is already fretting about the dreaded Mozzy. Bringing things back closer, this week looks pretty uneventful from a work point of view. A few Project Board meetings, the usual 2…