TL;DR – Relax, it doesn’t affect what we do, but be aware. There is lots of MSM comment about how destructive a recently discovered security flaw that exists “almost everywhere”. You’ll be pleased to hear that after further investigation this security vulnerability does NOT affect any of the services we supply to clients. This applies […]
Updated 2021-11-29, first published 2020-03-05. WINTER UPDATE NOT QUITE THERE Back in early Summer, we stated that we were almost there. Sadly, that seems not to be the case as the world seemed to settle down to rolling outbreaks of the Delta variant and getting on with the job of mass vaccination. However, vaccine longevity […]
We all know that social media is not healthy. Some of us might have seen the dangers of addiction, and others still the under-current of mental health issues that swirls around the whole shock/influencer/peer pressure/fake-existence/information disorder dramas that plays out 25×7. Many folks put this down to poor self-control, an addictive personality, or simply deny […]
Important dates for this holiday period It’s that time of year again. The clock has gone back and the mercury is hovering just above zero. Bonfire night is upon us, the early Xmas adverts are on the telly … and after that, it’s 7 weeks until Christmas. As per usual, we will be officially closed […]
In this great politico-media fest that is #COP26, it’s useful to highlight our commitment to eradicating negative traces that our business might have left on Spaceship Earth over the last quarter of a century. From our very early days in the 90s we trod lightly, embracing home working, cloud-services, and e-commerce. By 2006, we were […]
If you believe in the boom-bubble-decline cycle of tech innovation, then the last few years have been mesmerizing. To give some background, our company was founded a handful of years before that momentous Dot-Com bubble moment in early 2000 that eventually saw three-quarters of the value of the Nasdaq wiped out, along with thousands of […]
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Welcome to the birth of the Metaverse. Or at least it’s conception. The goal of a unified web is not new, but has arguably taken a quite sinister turm. Our CEO, Martin Dower, recently wrote about it and here is a short extract Apps are dead, as is desktop computing, and real life has seemingly […]
For many, working at home in a toxic culture is the new norm. Sadly, many employers have made a real mess of the #WFH opportunity that the pandemic has offered us. Rather than embrace the whole ethos of location and time-independent working, many employers have made the working week longer and more stressful. A recent […]
But that, we don’t mean the freedom that the internet offers, but the provision of free services is coming to an abrupt end. Since the early noughties, we’ve all become accustomed to using free services on the web. Free email, free search, free directories, free music, free video, the list goes on and on. And […]
Lockdown forced a new world on us. Some good and some bad, so lets take a closer look. The price of COVID has been high and continues across much of the world, but in the UK we’re quite fortunate to be coming out the other side. As the UK opens up, what are we hoping […]
March the 11th 1989, write that down as its the day the Internet was born. 32 years old and still going strong. Ok, the pervasive advertising is becoming a real bore, social-media platforms are the sewers, and privacy has all but gone as netizens are bought and sold like cattle. But, apart from that, The […]
Social media is becoming a liability? Discuss. Most observers agree that the influence of social media and the “power” of influencers have gotten way out of control. In just a decade, social-influence has permeated every corner of our lives. Some of that influence has been positive; including climate awareness, and empowered communities. But a lot […]
The rise and fall of the pandemic, the creation of a new paradigm and how society jumped forward 15 years in just a few months. Looking back to February and early March, no one really saw how the future of “the outbreak in Wuhan” would unfold. What transpired was the greatest threat to public health […]
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Important dates for this holiday period It’s time to chill and try to spend quality time with friends and family (whilst adhering to COVID-19 government policy). As per usual, we will be officially closed over the extended holiday period, from late on Friday, 18th of Dec thru to the Monday, 4th of Jan. Underlying primary […]
COVID has made for a challenging year, but a lot of good has come out of it. Forcing many of us into a socially-distanced, work-from-home mode has accelerated what, for many, was inevitable in working-practices. The benefits of doing your job from home are now been realised by up to half of the population, and […]
A changing world has changed how we think about urban space And it’s not the virus that has caused this, but the indirect secondary effects of home-based working and online retail that has changed how we see, and what we need from urban areas. Over the centuries we’ve seen pandemics wipe out population centres, but […]
…Is my stock answer when folks ask me how web-sites work! The digital world shares much in common with the relatively ancient world of watch craft so it acts as a great metaphor when explaining how the digital world is designed and engineered. The beauty that is the watch metaphor The elegance of a good […]
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As the first wave of the pandemic subsides we now see a new normal starting to be forged. Last year you might have sniggered at folks on the tube wearing masks, or pitied those that worked from home. The new normal is starting to be, erm, normal. And that means avoiding crowds, more specifically, unnecessary […]
The new normal may not be virtual, but it’s certainly a lot less corporeal. The world has been rocked off its axis this year due to Coronavirus snd the social upheaval is huge, and life-changing for many. Millions of people have been forced to work from home, relying on digital links and services to do […]
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Just about seven weeks since the country went into lockdown, and three months after the first reported deaths in the UK and it looks like we finally have the end in sight. It’s been a terrible time for the country: over 30,000 dead, 6m folks off work, families ripped apart, and households pushed to breaking […]
