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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens. Our hardware is fast enough and does a good job but the software load is excessive. Just over a year ago I undertook the complete renovation of...

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment Copy dispatched via a free wi-fi hotel service in Athens. The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe After that experience I'm sure they would go back to the drawing board and do a much better job. If I could be God for a day there are many things I...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service. The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe When I was a child there was no television. Radio was strictly LW, MW and SW.

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment Written on flight VS003 from London to New York and dispatched via a free JetBlue wi-fi service at JFK airport. The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another.

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks

Comment Written in the bar of a London hotel and dispatched via a free wi-fi service from Canary Wharf in the capital's docklands. The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe Scare stories about mobile phones cooking our brains come and go as regularly as the...

Tags: health risks, wi-fi, wimax, wireless

[04 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain

Comment Written at my home in Suffolk UK and dispatched to silicon.com from the Wild Strawberry Café in Woodbridge which combines great coffee and cookies with free wi-fi It does a better job than I can. Throughout my life I have stumbled upon wonderful...

Tags: video, www, wi fi, talk

[14 Jan 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Damn metrics

Comment Written at a public house just outside Morpeth, Northumberland and dispatched via a public wi-fi service from a service station on the A1 just outside Peterborough Management by very large numbers of metrics always leads to a layered dishonesty...

Tags: education, metrics, peter cochrane, management

[28 Aug 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers

Comment Dispatched to silicon.com via public wi-fi. Most managers had done the job, had worked their way up and understood the operations, technology and customer. Written at the Membury Service Station on the M4 Motorway whilst transiting from Cardiff to...

Tags: business skills, technical skills, management

[20 Aug 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: How I boosted my mobile signal

Comment Written at my hotel in Paris, polished and dispatched via a free wi-fi service from a conference in Barcelona a couple of weeks later Of course this involves a loss of gain from the optimum realized for TV use but for those enthusiastic enough, it...

Tags: mobile signal

[18 Jul 2007]

WIN: Tickets for England v West Indies

News The tickets will then be dispatched by Royal Mail recorded delivery (silicon.com will notify you ahead of dispatch and you must be available on Friday to sign for the tickets). All you have to do to win is send us your funniest story about a job...

[12 Jun 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi radiation scare

Comment Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via the City of Westminster free (for a trial period) wi-fi service A new team of investigators got on the job but couldn't prove any link at all.

Tags: peter cochrane, wi-fi health risk, wi-fi

[29 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: My changing TV habits

Comment Written on BA6947 flying from Malaga to Gatwick Airport and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service in London a day later During my early career I moved homes many times as job changes cropped up frequently.

Tags: tv, iptv

[30 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Remember when flying was fun?

Comment Written in Washington Dulles Airport after a heavy day, polished on the M5 between Reading and Taunton some weeks later, and dispatched from a domestic wi-fi link in Colyton, Devon The system seems quite slick, it works well, has been implemented...

Tags: airport security

[27 Mar 2006]

British Gas engineers get @Road assistance

News Andy Burling, head of planning and development at British Gas Services said in a statement: "With the deployment of @Road Taskforce, we wanted to further automate the way work is dispatched, improve the productivity of our engineers in the field...

Tags: centrica, british gas

[10 Feb 2006]

Treasury red-faced over email blunder

News However, in an ill-advised move, he instead dispatched to the Treasury's list of key media contacts. The official, whose job includes sending press notices by email, had intended to send the mail to a group of friends.

Tags: email blunder, email gaffes, treasury

[26 Jan 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Lab on a laptop

Comment Written at the Dayton, Ohio airport and dispatched to silicon.com via free wi-fi Job done! For much of my life I have been involved in solving complex problems using a combination of hypothesis, experiment and analysis.

Tags: sound engineering, laptop

[08 Dec 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Hardware hackers are back

Comment Written while flying from Heathrow to Aberdeen and dispatched from Inverness via a free hotel LAN The mass production item does the job well enough but there are those who want to customise everything.

Tags: hardware hacker

[16 Nov 2005]

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