Information is accumulating at an alarming rate In 2008 the number of web pages exceeded 1 trillion, at a second a page it would take 32,000 years to read them all. This is a problem. With so much information how do you get people to pay attention to your information. How do you stop them […]
Salty Coffee
I worked for a coffee shop. It was great, we only had one problem; occasionally there was a bit of a mix up at the serving hatch. The salt and sugar were in similar containers. Sometimes we put a pinch or two of salt in our customer’s coffee, not very often, and then just a […]
Why?
I have two children: My youngest (two) asks why. Why are we going in the car? Why should I wear boots? Why is the sky blue? My eldest (eight) asks why. Why is there global warming? Why are people fighting in Bahrain? Why is the sky blue? It does my head in. But the thing […]
Lotus Notes
I have just started working somewhere new. They use Lotus Notes as an e-mail solution instead of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Outlook. It has some novel customer focused features: 1. E-mail addresses often contain random X Y or Z middle initials. Users can have multiple addresses with these random initials in. This helps confuse senders. 2. Large […]
Fresh as the Moment when the Pod went Pop
All companies obsess about something, their USP, their IP, the thing that they can do that nobody else can. I used to work for Birdseye, the frozen pea people. They used to obsess about getting the peas out of the field and frozen within 2 1/2 hours. They had a panel of pea tasters who […]
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