Foolproof blog

I was on my way to a client meeting a couple of weeks ago from London Paddington and just happened to be placed in coach D on a First Great Western train.

Nothing unusual about that I realise but once I got to my seat I saw that each of them had an integrated TV. You can see that this is much like the TV offered during air flights but I’d never seen this on a train before.

When Apple announced the Magic Trackpad in late July, it was one of their more intriguing new products. At first glance, it’s much the same as the trackpad found on MacBooks; you can move the cursor around, click, swipe and use all of the other gestures you’d expect. Yet how this works on a practical, day to day basis is not apparent.

Whenever any group of people convenes to generate new ideas pretty much the first thing the person moderating the session will say is that “There’s no such thing as a bad idea”.

The purpose of this statement is to settle the participants and reassure them that, in the white-heat of generating ideas, none of their contributions will be seen as silly, irrelevant or downright useless. But is it true that there’s no such thing as a bad idea?

I need to buy luggage and I’m in a hurry. I don’t have a great deal of time to do research and I’m not familiar with the common brands. What do I do?

Congratulations to the new Committee!

The election results are now in and unfortunately I’ve missed out on the Vice President role. Thanks to everyone who voted and showed their support for me and the other candidates! It was a fun campaign.