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How to create a mega-brand
(reposted from my education blog) London is perhaps the world’s leading centre for the graphic arts and this is driven by the advertising industry. At the top this industry is branding and the besting brands are artistic achievements built by teams whose virtuosity matches those of the cathedral builders of the Renaissance. Just as cathedral…
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A review of “The Reckoning” by Jacob Soll
I have just read “The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the making and breaking of nations” by Jacob Soll. This is a brilliant walk though history seen through the lens of double entry accounting. Accounting is without doubt very hard work and to most people very boring but Soll shows how morally directed accounting is essential…
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Blind programmer’s tools
An inspirational read https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-programmer/
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A review of Reformation Europe’s House Divided
I am a physicist by training and inclination and as the biologist Hans Zinsser noted in “Rats, Lice and History“, physicists often have a strong interest in theology or as he might have put it “often go off the deep end”. Reformation Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch is a magisterial review of European…
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How to write a report
I am a management consultant and an important part of my work is writing reports. There are different types of reports but mostly I follow a common process. My target audience for this post is university undergraduates but I hope that others find it useful as well. This the ElephantPM report writing process. Get Organised…
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An example of Slack in use
There is a lot of buzz about Slack which is as sort of instant messaging system with good channel management and lots of integrations. I wanted to learn more and I found these excellent articles Slack for a dev team http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-slack-has-changed-wpmu-dev/ Slack or Yammer (a more conventional user forum manager) https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Yammer-and-Slack It seems to me…
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Playing Ark Survival Evolved on a Microsoft Surface 4 Pro
My son has challenge me to an Ark Survival Evolved death match (this can only go one way) and although my Surface has 256 GB storage I don’t really want to use it up with large games such as the 40 GB Ark. In an earlier post I discussed installing a Class 10 U1-3 Micro…
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[Fixed] I do not receive Turkish e-Visa confirmation emails
I lost several hours and a lot of patience trying to get a Turkish e-Visa. The problem was that none of my email addresses could receive the confirmation email. Trip Advisor has many others with the same problem. I solved this problem by using my work email. Other people have created a Gmail account for…
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Adding a MicroSD card to a Surface Pro 4
I have a Surface Pro 4 with a 256 GB SSD and I am running a couple of virtual machines for development purposes. Each time I snapshot them it uses more storage and I am running low on space. To increase the storage space I have purchased a 128 GB Kingston MicroSD card these come…
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[Fixed] Windows 10 roaming profiles break Edge and other packaged applications
— Update 2017-12-15 — I think Roaming Profiles are now deprecated. I will be moving all my users to Local Profiles supplemented by User Experience Virtualisation (UE-V) over the next 12 months. See comments below. — I have recently been imaging Microsoft Surface 3 computers for use by staff in a school. All our staff…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 