boogdesign posts

After my post two weeks ago, where I exhorted non-technical managers to improve their communication skills rather than distract their technical staff with improving theirs, I came across two articles this week that struck me as being very related. Fir… more »

Last week I was reading a blog post on Angry Aussie - 6 essential communication tips for IT workers and it set me to thinking:So why are communications skills being focused on in IT roles where this has not traditionally been a prime requisite. In short,… more »

After yesterday's post - which I will summarise as "look how much I still have left to learn" - I wasn't really satisfied with the ending. You can tell I wasn't because I added a further ending in a comment later on, but I still had the feeling that I h… more »

I got my copy of Computing today (one day late) and the main story on the cover was Startups suffer funding slump by James Brown: According to figures from the British Venture Capital Association, investment in early-stage technology companies fell from… more »

This morning I upgraded to Firefox 2.0, though I didn't install the official build :) There were a number of obstacles to overcome to get everything working the way I wanted it, here is my story... The first thing I did was make a backup of my entire… more »

I have another blog, less technical than this one, which runs Serendipity. I was upgrading to the latest version (a task long neglected) when I noticed that my Atom feeds weren't producing valid XML. The problem was caused by some URLs which had ampers… more »

Having got into StumbleUpon at work today, the whole random browsing thing was quite a fun way to waste an hour, I decided to get it setup on my laptop at home. I went to the site, clicked the 'Get StumbleUpon' link and installed the extension, when I r… more »