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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Bokodes – invisible bar codes you can read at a distance

Monday, July 27, 2009

MIT has released details of a new bar code technology that can be read from a distance by ordinary cameras or camera phones, yet is almost invisible to the naked eye. We’re all used to bar codes appearing on products, and 3d bar codes that can be read by phones have been around for a [...]

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iphones (and everyone else on O2) lose data connection

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

According to this article (and several frustrated colleagues) O2′s packet data network is down. This means lots of iphone owners are sans-Internet. I’m wondering if they will experience the same lack of direction the Borg felt when they lost contact with each other. Will they have to start making decisions without their iphones? How will [...]

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How dangerous are mobile phones?

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

While I was reading this story earlier about a mother who left her child near an open window for a few seconds while she went to get her mobile phone, it occurred to me that I read a lot of stories nowadays along similar lines. It seems we’re prepared to take all sorts of wild [...]

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The importance of clear objectives

Thursday, July 16, 2009

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” That was President Kennedy’s mission statement for the NASA missions to the Moon. I’ve used it on project management training courses as an example [...]

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Out and about in Notting Hill

Friday, July 10, 2009

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN1657, originally uploaded by harkmopwood. These people definitely win the prize for best front garden ornamentation. It’s lifesize and actually quite scary.

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Fantastic customer service

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Graze are worried about the possible postal strike this week. So they’ve reworked their product offering so it doesn’t go off in the post, and sent this very cool email. The brown boxes are arriving at our office in huge quantities now: Pod1′s going to need a bigger mailbox soon.

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