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December 2008 - Customers – They're not just for Christmas! |
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After two years of speeches and slogans the dust is now settling on what has been dubbed the greatest political show on earth, the USA elections 2008.
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November 2008 - The Internet Election |
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After two years of speeches and slogans the dust is now settling on what has been dubbed the greatest political show on earth, the USA elections 2008.
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October 2008 - Jobs for the Girls |
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Recently we decided to organise a “girls night out” for the female members of PDMS, you know the sort of thing – the opportunity to generally put the world to rights over a meal and a few glasses of wine. When sending out the invite it struck me how much longer the e-mail distribution list of females at PDMS has become.
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September 2008 - Cloudy Weather |
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Clouds are very much on my mind at present and I’m not just talking about the weather, appalling though this summer has been!
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August 2008 - A brave new virtual world? |
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The IT age has brought new meaning to many existing words – but one of the most overused adjectives of recent years has to be ‘virtual’.
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July 2008 - Tidy is a relative term |
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My Sister has just waltzed in and is flicking through a home furnishings brochure in the kitchen. On being told that I am trying to write an article about web design she rather dismissively asserts that she is more of a paper person.
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June 2008 - Demystifying the Web |
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One of the side-effects of working in the IT industry is the constantly shifting sea of technology-related buzzwords that you have to navigate on a daily basis.
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May 2008 - Computer says Maybe |
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I discovered this weekend that somehow or other I had been paying £7.95 a month for an online service from Which (noble guardian of the consumer), not once but twice. Quite why we were shelling out over fifteen quid a month for a service we were unaware of consuming was something of a mystery which needed to be investigated immediately.
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April 2008 - Could your PlayStation 3 help find a cure for cancer? |
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I recently visited a friend who was bemoaning the fact that her teenage son was becoming a virtual hermit, spending most of his waking hours and several hours when he should have been sleeping, playing Grand Theft Auto on his PlayStation 3.
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March 2008 - Beauty Becomes a Beast |
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The iPhone, is it really just a very sexy mobile phone, a real eye catching ‘beauty’? Or…., is it in reality about to become a true ‘beast’ of a mobile business device?
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February 2008 - Having an Input |
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The usefulness of any computer system is largely dependent on the effectiveness of its ‘user interface’ – the means by which you operate the system, glean information from it, and work out whether your actions have had the desired effect. Of all the aspects of the design of a system, the extent to which the interface is responsive, intuitive, consistent and ergonomic dictates not only how efficiently we can work with the system, but also whether the work gets done at all before anything is bashed, stamped-on or thrown out of the nearest window. ‘Getting on’ with a user interface is a prerequisite to a long-term, happy relationship with the system.
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January 2008 - Here today, Gone tomorrow |
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At this time of year (early December, 9 hours to the copy deadline and counting…) I often find myself writing about the current must have Christmas gadgets, or trying to make more or less serious predictions about developments in technology over the next couple of years. And this year is no exception, I have left this article to the last minute again – due mainly to too many hours spent on ebay trying to get hold of that Wii games console I rashly promised the kids (only 50 quid more than list price direct from Bulgaria but don’t tell them) - and now I’d better follow a tried and tested formula.
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