A top level category for posts on business issues such as Web2.0 tools and trends, customer service issues etc.
From Don Carlson, one of my IAIDQ cronies in the US comes this YouTube vid from Informatica (a data quality software tool vendor) that sums up a lot of why Information Quality matters. Of course, I could get snooty and ask what gave them the idea to juxtapose Information Quality and Trainwrecks…. gosh, I’d swear …
Regular visitors to this blog will know that I always appreciate stuff wot does work. Be it the excellent OnlineMeetingRooms to a humble bluetooth keyboard, I am a ferverent champion of kit that humbly bows its head and goes about doing what it sez on the tin in a competent and reliable manner. I was …
So there I was, in that horrid hypnogogic state between wakefulness and dreams, when I heard John Waters’ voice booming in my ears like the baritone chimes of God himself (or maybe that was Charlton Heston). “Ahh”, thought I hypnogogically, “this will be one of those pontifical nightmares I get after too much cheese and …
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Earlier this week I wrote about some inconsistencies in Amazon.co.uk’s apparent policy not to ship electrical goods, software or Xbox games to the Irish Republic. At that point, I’d only identified that the Amazon check out was flagging some Xbox games I had in my basket as being unshippable but notall of them. As I …
Courtesy of Damien Mulley, a tale of Amazon support with a sense of humour. Apparently Amazon UK have a more ‘Kafka-esque’ sense of humour about things…
So, Christmas is coming, the Goose is getting fat. I thought I’d put some euros in Jeff Bezo’s hat.. So I decided to try to order some Xbox games as part of my Christmas shopping. I fully expected to get big “DANGER WILL ROBINSON” warnings for all the purchases given Amazon’s decision NOT to sell …
Amazon. The f*ckers. Yet again they decide to clumsily shaft the residents of the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland. Their Amazon Prime service has been launched and I was all clicky-fingered ready to sign up and pay my stg£49 to get this useful service. However, I forgot just how crap Amazon are at …
Hmmm… perhaps I should have wished for that time machine after all. I keep missing deadlines for the Science Week thing. Today’s question is “What invention has helpd you most with your working life” As my job centres on computing and computery things many people would expect me to say “the computer” or “d’Internet”. But …
Curses. I missed the deadline for yesterday’s competition over on Mulley.net to win a Wii in National Science week. I will not make the same mistake twice. Today’s question is “What invention would you like to see most in the future?“. Given I missed yesterday’s deadline I was tempted to go for a TARDIS or …
I’ve been playing around with e-Touch meeting room from Onlinemeetingrooms.com for the past while. To put it bluntly… this product does exactly what it says on the tin. It is a meeting room It is online It just works Recently an event I was involved in as a speaker had a problem. A speaker had …