Why Microsoft is starting to grab my attention

Those who know me know how anti-Microsoft I am and how much I love Apple. But recently I have found myself admiring more Microsoft products than I have Apple. And it makes me feel dirty! Where to start? Well it’s just been over the past year or so really. Let’s begin with the first product [...]

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Visualising the European Debt Crisis

I recently decided to start looking at the European Government financial statistics on Eurostat to see if there’s an interesting way to visual it. When you start playing with trillions then numbers become meaningless! Where do you begin to translate the total EU debt of €10,421,987,000,000? So I decided to begin the translating process by [...]

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Oi Conference: How conferences should be…

Yesterday I spent the day out the office to attend Oi Conference. Ever heard of it? Neither did I until just a few weeks ago! At first I was a little skeptical as to how good it could be. At £75 per ticket? I thought, “what the hell!“. So what made Oi Conference different? Only [...]

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My Instagram tour of London

Last week I spent a couple of days in London and decided one evening to walk aimlessly around this beautiful city and see where I’d end up. Rather than look for popular tourist attractions I strolled around for over two hours with no agenda other than take Instagram photos of things that caught my eye. [...]

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Hello world!

My first blog post… and what’s it called? Hello world! Probably the most appropriate yet overused title in the world. To get an idea of what to expect from this blog I’ll jump straight in and look at just why ‘Hello world!’ is so overused (but if you don’t care just skip this section). I’m a [...]

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