Recently the power lead for my laptop decided to break. Not snap off in some obvious place, no, but instead break in a slow and irritating way that had me scratching my head and running around the house connecting it to every single power point to try and work out if the plug was broken, or it was in fact the computer playing up or actually just my brain.
Eventually I worked out that yes, it was indeed the plug. Read the rest of this entry »

Check this out and BE SURE TO GET YOUR BOSS TO READ IT. It could drastically improve your life:
http://www.enigindigital.com/2010/05/enigin-remote-working/
Now, that article is a guide to remote working – also known as being able to do your work in your dressing gown from the comfort of your own home while it snows outside…all thanks to the wonders of the internet! This here, however, is an article about how having some of your employees working remotely can benefit you the Read the rest of this entry »

I used to live between two pubs and directly above a butcher’s shop, so during the day there would be the smell of fresh meat, and during the night this would mix with the stench of alcohol and creep in to my dreams. I often had dreams of cows and pigs drinking their snouts off in the pubs. It was a disturbing time to say the least.

But what annoyed me more than the lack of sleep due to nightmarish Read the rest of this entry »

Some people believe that technology will ultimately destroy us, while others believe that when the natural end comes – something that came for the dinosaurs, apparently, and that will inevitably come for us – it will be the one thing capable of saving and protecting us from civilization-ending doom.

Technology and its infiltration in to every facet of our daily lives is the subject of discussion at the following link.

It’s an impossible debate, of course, one fraught with Read the rest of this entry »

Customer service isn’t everyone’s strength–to put it lightly. In fact, some companies’ idea of customer service consists of a harrowing (and sometimes frighteningly) bored voice on the end of a line which sounds like it couldn’t care less…sometimes it barely even sounds human; in the worst cases it may even be automated, forcing the user to undergo a tortuous hour or more of button pushing, sometimes resulting in the line going dead…

But not everyone is like that, of course. Read the rest of this entry »

Marketing, as I am sure you’re well aware, is the holy-grail of business practice. You’re more likely to get the blood out of a stone than get a company to spill all the details on their views on marketing and advertising. Yes, they’ll tell you a version of the truth, but it will have been edited to the extent that it’s more a distant cousin of the source material than a direct representation. Which begs the question–why should they have Read the rest of this entry »