Isle of Man Webcams
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 31st May, 2007
There has been a rush of interest in webcams around the Isle of Man because of this TT Centenary, and I was getting bored of rotating through a number of different pages to see what’s going on. So I put together a page with the top 6 cameras around the Island which refreshes on a [...]
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 [...]
Isle of Man Online Services - Here comes tax
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 13th Apr, 2007
The project I’m working for here in the Isle of Man has moved forward to a new phase and we are getting ready to roll our services for businesses to do online tax filings (see Press Release). It’s a culmination of quite a few activities across government, including providing the infrastructure to enable this and [...]
Flights out of the IOM
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 30th Jan, 2007
I’ve justed booked my flight for a trip to the UK next month. It seems like connections to London seem to be more expensive this year, and the choice of airlines flying to the Isle of Man gets smaller and smaller. BA Connect still fly to the Island (we’ll see if they still will after [...]
Watching the boats go by?
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 27th Jan, 2007
If you live on an island, you start to appreciate how important the sea links to other countries are to the local economy. You also tend to take these things for granted, however, when the weather is bad, and the sea routes are inaccessible, well, you notice.
The Isle of Man takes great care to protect [...]
Isle of Man Header Image
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 22nd Jan, 2007
I’ve decided to switch the header image back to a scenery shot. The previous image was a bit gory (even though in reality it was just a photo of a droplet of water on a leaf). Rosie, a colleague here in the Isle of Man, gave me permission to use one of her scenery photos.
The [...]
The Venice Project - Bandwidth
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 9th Jan, 2007
One thing you really need to watch out for when playing with The Venice Project is bandwidth. Streaming media is a pretty bandwidth-hungry application and The Venice Project delivers full-screen streaming media, so you can just imagine. The figures that they quote are that their software uses around 300Mb of downstream bandwidth and around 100Mb [...]
Communicating the Value of IT
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 10th Nov, 2006
The Isle of Man Chapter of the BCS will be organising a talk later on this month called “Communicating the Value of IT”, presented by Sherrilynne Starkie, Managing Partner of Strive PR. Here is the snopsis of the event:
What your IT department’s reputation? Are you seen as problem solvers, as barriers to progress or do [...]
To all Manx techies out there
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 14th Oct, 2006
Sherrilynne Starkie, the author of Tech Talk in the Isle of Man Examiner is looking for ideas for future installments of the column. It can be about any subject at all, as long as it’s about using computing for business, or the business of computing. If anyone has any gems, you can contact her on [...]
WiManx
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 24th Sep, 2006
It’s only been a few days since I switched my ADSL service to a relatively new entrant in the Manx ISP market. They are a company called WiManx and have been responsible for introducing a number of innovative products to the Manx ISP market. In particular, they have brought to market a pre-WiMAX offering which [...]
Freedom to Flourish video
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 1st Sep, 2006
I’ve been playing with YouTube to see what it can do, and have uploaded the product of a branding exercise here in the Isle of Man. The video is called Freedom to Flourish:
I like the way YouTube gives you the code you need to embed the videos you upload and make them look as part [...]
Our first Service goes public
Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 2nd Jul, 2006
The project I’m working on has finally announced to the world what we’re up to. I’m involved in a project tasked with deliving eGovernment services here in the Isle of Man. It’s all interesting stuff; both in terms of the range of technologies we have to work with, and also the challenges in working with [...]
No Manx National Speed Limit
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 19th Jun, 2006
Looks like the plans for a National Speed Limit in the IOM have been dumped. Interesting to see the? turn-around especially after a heavily biased consulation to try and force the legislation through
National Speed Limit Plans Dumped
Isle of Man’s e-commerce sets the standard
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 9th May, 2006
Apparently the Isle of Man’s e-Commerce industry has been selected by the South Korean island of Jeju as a template for which they are to base their efforts. They describe the Isle of Man as an “IT paradise created on a tourist island”. These are some core phrases they used to describe the island:
“The economy, [...]
Free Wifi at Manx Airport
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 18th Feb, 2005
Turns out there’s a free Wifi trial running at the airport in the Isle of Man. Turns out to being initiative by the Isle of Man Government, the Isle of Man Airport and Manx Telecom. Good on your guys .. now KEEP IT FREE !!!
It’s quite cool typing out blog entries while sitting in an [...]
