Last week saw the completion of The Shard, the highest building in Europe, which has been growing everyday on my walk into the office. While simple in design the building managed to…
Cinema becomes 4D
I never used to be a particularly big cinema fan; I just couldn’t see the point of spending a huge amount of money to sit in a sticky and dirty room with…
Team building
A while ago a number of us from the office completed, what is billed as the toughest challenge on the planet, Tough Mudder. Although I would suspect something like an Iron Man…
Royal Mail shouldn’t be too concerned, take a look at BT
Interesting news this week about TNT’s new delivery service which is being run by TNT Post and how it will affect Royal Mail. It is launching in the west of London to…
Bandwidth Bandits need your support
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men and women promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to…
Technology helps make exercise fun
A big part of my training for the Tough Mudder event we are doing in May has been to run. God didn’t gift me with a running body and so to enter…
Onwards and upwards
With the May deadline fast approaching the Shard looks nearly finished. Apparently the final bit will be brought in by helicopter so I will be keeping an eye out but being a…
Bandwidth Bandits prepare for battle
On Monday sees the team (thirteen of us) complete a 10 KM run in preparation for Tough Mudder being held in Kettering in May. Our team, Bandwidth Bandits, have been training for…
The 15 year plan
When I was fifteen I remember standing in my bedroom and looking at myself in the mirror deciding on what I was going to do with my life. At the age of…
3D has a future
While it has been sometime since we have seen a big leap in technology, such as the development of the personal computer, mobile phone or even mode of transport, I am amazed…
AR Drone view of the office
I had some fun with my new AR Drone yesterday by recording a quick tour of the Fluidata office. As you can see it is a little bit tricky but I managed…
Bandwidth Bandits!
Christmas is always a time for New Year resolutions and this year is no different. This time however there has been a bit more organisation with thirteen of us in the office…
Butchery
The other week I was invited along to another one of Daylesford’s excellent cookery courses held at their headquarters in Kingham, Gloucestershire. This time it wasn’t so much about cooking and rather…
Olympics sell its soul
Has anyone noticed that some of the global Olympic sponsors are not the type of companies you would associate with a global sporting event? How can for example Coca-Cola or McDonalds, which…
Retain the standard to retain the customer
I have always been a big fan of our national carrier, but after a recent trip to Cyprus to visit some of my family I was pretty disappointed in the level of…