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…
We are quickly approaching the new football season and as usual excitement and anticipation levels are starting to rise. I go through these emotions every year and every year the expected highs and lows leave me drained and exhausted. But once I start seeing the pre-season friendly results all the negativity goes. I will awake on Saturday morning with the normal home game knot in my stomach and will be unbearable until 13:00 when I leave for the game. I…
OMG, what an AWSOME film…. Watched it in Nottingham IMAX cinema so had the full 3D and mega sound experience. I don’t normally go for IMAX as Heather hates 3D and dislikes the sound loud, so I made the most of the opportunity. Looked online about 16:45 and picked the perfect seat, its L21 Screen 10 by the way. Arrived about 17:05 (exactly17:05 tbh) and bought the obligatory bag of popcorn and small Coke Zero, I have mastered my bladder…
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…
Well, here it is, my first EVER blogpost. Not bad for a 54 year old Techie!! I had a day off today to spend sometime with Heather who then subsequently went out…When she got back we shot off to the Cinema (Nottingham Showcase) to see the new Jason Bourne film.. Which was AWSOME!!! Great action film which you thought would bring the series than end, but as usual theres a twist. Nice to see Matt Damon back in the role….