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Thursday, 10 November 2011 10:34 |
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<climbs on hobby horse>Firstly, QR codes are not just about marketing! All too often questions about the success or failure or QR codes (and other similar tags) is centered around their use in marketing campaigns. That's missing the point! It's like saying that bar codes are just used by supermarkets <climbs down from hobby horse>.
That said, many of the hurdles to be overcome are common across many applications.
Common Hurdles:
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Thursday, 03 November 2011 20:01 |
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About twelve months ago I took the decision to migrate my hosting into the cloud. I’d had a (physical) dedicated server with a UK based provider[1] for many years—a leftover from a previous life as an Internet Service Provider. This old server was getting a bit long in the tooth and, although relatively reliable, I’d had a few outages and overloaded CPU issues that persuaded me that it was time to review the offerings on the market. I also knew that I was paying too much for outdated technology and an outdated business model.
Things have changed a lot since I started in the ISP business. These days you get a lot more bang for your buck and hosting offerings can be a lot more flexible. I’d started with a leased line and office based servers (yes I go that far back), followed by rack(s) of co-located servers, and finally downsizing to the aforementioned dedicated server. My research led me to believe that a truly virtual offering was now not only attainable, but also mature and stable enough for my purposes.
So I set about researching what was available based upon a short set of criteria:
- I wanted a platform that was used and recommended by people I knew (or at the very least people within one degree of separation)
- I wanted a reasonable SLA. I know that 100% uptime is never going to be attainable without serious money changing hands, but 99.99% was acceptable for my purposes (about an hour a month)
- I wanted to pay the same (or less) than I was already paying
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Thursday, 26 May 2011 21:18 |
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I've just finished choosing my Desert Island Discs for the BBC's "Your Desert Island Discs" project. I came up with the following:
John Miles—Music
Ludwig van Beethoven—5th piano concerto
Mike Oldfield—Far Above the Clouds
Johan Pachelbel—Canon in D
The Beatles—Yellow Submarine
Pink Floyd—Welcome to the Machine
Manu Chao—Bongo Bong
Harry Nilsson—Without You
And Lordy, it was difficult. I thought that I’d be able to just reel them off from my long established Desert Island Discs (DID) list. (What do you mean you haven’t got a list? Shame on you. Go away and think about it right now. It’s harder than you think and it could make you question your whole outlook on life. Especially what’s important to you.)
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Monday, 19 September 2011 13:40 |
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I've been a bit preoccupied recently with a small matter relating to the finishing of a thesis (and all the related project work, data analysis, meeting people and generally getting on with it that preceded the actual writing) so blogging has had to take a back seat. But the document has been finished, printed and handed in so more random musings can now be released upon an unsuspecting world.
This time it's about QR codes (QR? Quadratic Residue or Quick Response. Whatever floats your boat).
I was asked to explain a bit about how QR codes work. I was responding to an erroneous assumption that, with a plethora of different code generating services all churning out their own codes as fast as they can, there would be a slight possibility that two identical codes would be generated that point to different information. In response to the original assumption, THEY CAN'T.
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Wednesday, 06 April 2011 10:27 |
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I saw a tweet from the inestimable Stephen Fry today urging people to sign up to a particular Facebook page in order to show their support for some worthy cause and it set me thinking, why? What good will it do? Could it actually be a bad thing encouraging people to pop over to that page?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not anti good causes, nor having people show their support. But I found myself wondering how many people will do as requested by Mr. F, feel good about it, pat themselves on the back because they have somehow made the world a better place today and then just leave it at that.
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