Archive for the ‘Commentary’ Category

Green Cloud

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Tom Raftery (of Greenmonk) writes: ...these servers will be almost entirely idle for eleven months of the year. The alternative is that the owners put the site on a cloud platform and dial up the resources associated with it, as and when needed. This is obviously a vastly more efficient option ...

Research and Development? What it is.

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

I wrote a post on digitalcircle.org today about the new Grant for R&D from InvestNI. Much like the stuff I've written about R&D Tax Relief and R&D Tax Credits (both of which are available), there's some clearing up around the term "R&D" that needs to be done. During a conversation last ...

More on stolen time…

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Following on from yesterdays post - how much time have you spent writing on Twitter? Add to that you'll have to guess how much time you've spent reading Tweets. Are we feeling productive yet?

Thief of Time! Stop!

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Bob Walsh of 47Hats.com tells us to stop stealing: But I know you’re stealing - and so do your friends, your coworkers, the girl you’re trying to impress. We all know. What you’re stealing is time from yourself. You grab a few minutes here, a web site there, pop an IM with a ...