I watched the third episode of Jamie’s Ministry of Food last night in which Jamie visits a hospital in Rotheram where the doctors showed him a special bed for fat people (visit the Channel 4 site to see a picture) and explained that the NHS is struggling to cope with the problems caused by [...]

Long before I became a business geek I was a computer geek. I was obsessed with learning how to design and build high quality IT solutions, focusing on the software side in particular. In that time I learned a lot about the "right way" to build and deploy IT solutions and witnessed far too much [...]

Years ago I learned to program on a mixture of computers including BBC Micro/BBC Master, Acorn Archimedes and Amiga. My inspiration was computer games such as Missile Command and Elite and later hits such as Super Cars 2. However by the time I graduated with a degree in Computer Science Quake 2 had shipped and [...]

I recently met a fellow geek, Paul Mutton, who as well as being a techie geek is also a photography geek and whilst looking at his collection of photo’s last week, I came across three collections that he’d titled "Geek P0rn". Each of which consisted of around ten photo’s of a lady wearing nothing but [...]

Watching some local builders queuing up to enter a building site today I noticed a number of them that had McDonalds or local sandwich shop packaging in their hands. I’ve also had a number of requests for more posts on cheap business opportunities that anyone can start-up so I began to think.
It seems to me [...]

Travelling to Bath on the train this week I’ve noticed an increase in the number of folding bikes. There’s still not many, but in light of the ever increasing cost of oil, the increasing cost of running a car and the general move of society towards greener modes of transport I can’t help thinking [...]

It doesn’t seem that long ago that the papers were talking about the chaos that would follow if oil hit $30 per barrel. A few years on and it’s past $120 per barrel and showing no signs of stopping.
As a result, prices are rising - particularly prices of oil based fuels. Many would argue that [...]

I popped down my local mini-supermarket a couple of days ago to grab a few essentials for breakfast. One of which was some yogurt for my young son. Looking at the yogurts on offer however I had quite a shock. They are full of all sorted of extra’s that you wouldn’t expect. Sure none [...]

Today Seth Godin wrote about Packaging for retail noting that a recent purchase of his:

…came in plastic, non-recyclable packaging that weighed twice as much as the remote itself. The plastic was so well sealed and so thick that I actually broke a kitchen knife trying to open it…

He also goes on to note:

This packaging is [...]

In a wonderfully titled post Innovation … It’s Easy as P___! Tom Peters asks:

If innovation is still the best source of competitive advantage, then this truism should apply beyond the world of fashion, IT, and pharmaceuticals, and into less obviously promising areas, like aircraft toilets!

He goes on to explain that men account for 70% of [...]