Archive for the 'personal' Category
Maximising personal productivity
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 11th Apr, 2008
Finally it’s Friday and I get some time to play with my own projects. I’m sitting at work at the moment and wondering how come I manage to achieve much more while sitting at my desk, then I do at home. I suspect it’s due to the fact that I’m in an environment more conducive [...]
Memories of Dubai
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 5th Apr, 2008
Isn’t it funny how sometimes images, smells and sounds can reawaken the past for you? One such example is the photo here of the Jumeirah hotel at Burj Al Arab in Dubai. I only saw this place once, while we were on honeymoon some 8 years ago. However, seeing this photo always takes me back [...]
New wheels
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 8th Feb, 2008
I’ve just realised that I never mentioned that I got a new car a few months ago. Well, sort of new anyway. It’s a second hand Jaguar S-type which is just lovely. We haven’t quite got rid of our BMW yet but we will be doing that shortly. The Jaguar doesn’t handle as nicely as [...]
Merry Xmas
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Dec, 2007
I’m in Malta at the moment, so much time to post, but wanted to drop a quick "Merry Xmas" and wish everyone a prosperous New Year. Here’s a cute card I was sent:
See you all soon! Have a good one!
Back to my posting routine
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 17th Dec, 2007
So I’m back home following a great holiday in Finland. It was a strange experience having no land line, no mobile phone and no Internet for a whole week, but I seem to have survived. Instead I spent my time skiing, enjoying to quality family time and pulling Arthur along in his sled and throwing [...]
Exam Over. Time for a Holiday.
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 7th Dec, 2007
So, the Project Management exam is over! It wasn’t all that bad, though I don’t feel as if I’ve aced it. But, as long as I manage to get a decent grade, I’ll be happy. Next topic to turn my sights on is Organisational Behaviour. I’m hoping to do this in March/April, so I’d better [...]
Isle of Man Government Online Services
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 28th Nov, 2007
Andy and I gave a talk last night to the local chapter of the BCS about the work we’re doing to provide businesses and citizens in the Isle of Man with a set of Online Services to facilitate interaction with Government. We had a great time talking about what we do and had quite a [...]
Involved in Work Connexions
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 19th Oct, 2007
I’ve been spending a lot of time talking to Leo recently and will be helping him in the near future to develop his ideas and direct the technology efforts behind his latest initiative: Work Connexions. It’s a great little idea, one that is sparked from a need in the market for business networking and online [...]
Sorry for the outage
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 17th Oct, 2007
You may have noticed that I’ve just taken a few days off from blogging. I popped down to London for my birthday and haven’t really had much time to get online. I had a great birthday, we went to the British Museum, then had dinner at Yo! Sushi and finished it off with watching [...]
Back in time to Sydney
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 23rd Sep, 2007
I was going through some old photos and came across some from when I have gone to Sydney. If you were unaware of this, I had spent 6 months in Australia on a student exchange when I was at University. It was a great experience, especially as the Internet was just kicking off back then [...]
Listening to podcasts
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 8th Aug, 2007
I started listening to podcasts when I picked up my iRiver many, many moons ago. It works OK, but I hate the fact that I have to charge it up, plug it into my PC and go through hoops to get the podcasts on my player. It’s been worse with Vista as some packages worked [...]
My 15 minutes of fame
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 7th Aug, 2007
I had been warned, but it’s still a nice surprise to see your name in the paper. You see, my friend Sherrilynne writes a column for a local newspaper entitled Tech Talk. This week she decided to talk about my blogging exploits and post up a couple of my recent blog posts. I’m flattered at [...]
Turn off the Internet
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 2nd Aug, 2007
The last person I expected to see on Techmeme today was Elton John! And with the absolutely riducolous request to “shut down the Internet for five years”. He claims it is destroying people’s ability to interact with one another and it’s also destroying the quality of music that society is creating.
What a load of pants! [...]
Are you a generalist or a specialist?
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 13th Jun, 2007
Ever find yourself in situations where you are expected to be a fountain of knowledge about all subjects under the sun? It’s been happening to me more and more often. The good thing is that you end up knowing a bit about everything. The other day, after buying Epson RX640, I went off hunting for somewhere to [...]
Putting the Isle of Man on the map
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 28th May, 2007
Came across a post today on Ali’s Blog entitled: .IM taking over the IM world. It’s nice hearing about something relevant to the Isle of Man from someone else’s blog. The Island is already famous for the TT racing that’s taking place at the moment, nice to see it making it in the virtual world [...]
