February 2012
15 posts
“Sticking Microsoft Office on a WOA (Windows 8 on ARM) tablet is as key to that...”
– Ian Waring
Populating my Pinterest boards →
I’ve uploaded some family pics, pointers to some good infographics/podcasts/videos, a link to the joke that made me blackout, my most highly rated business books, details of a few products I love, and finished with some logos of companies I’ve worked for. All on Pinterest.com/ianwaring. Will be interesting to see how Pinterest develops; it’s already serving more ecommerce traffic...
Pinterested? →
Yet another social media site, this one a cross between the Picture Post (or at least how my father described it when it was published) and a set of communal notice boards. The one stand out is the amount of traffic they are feeding into e-commerce sites (supposedly already more than that inbound from Google), with 55-60% of it from female users.
You can see me as ianwaring on www.pinterest.com....
Naughty Demon Internet
Finishing the week having finally sussed that Demon had moved my fixed IP address from 80.177.104.232 to 80.176.156.176 without telling me, hence my amateur attempts to work out what was happening for a whole week. Wasn’t my Airport Extreme after all (albeit Jane has that up on eBay now). Demon Change Control? Hello!!!
Apple's iPhone Business now bigger than Microsoft →
In both revenue and profits. Amazing. Also very true about the fixation with Google, as Apple sailed past. In an environment when big bonuses to CEOs get dissed, no-one appears to be concerned with the $400m+ that Tim Cook received. Worth every cent.
Click the title to see the covering article.
Airport Extreme retired from service
Gave up trying to get it running in daisy-chained WDS mode, and reverted back to our Netgear router running on it’s todd. Updated the Airport firmware to 7.6.1, then reverted it back to factory settings. Anyone want to buy an Airport Extreme?
January 2012
23 posts
Found the Secret Railway Bridge
I usually eat my lunch with my bucket of coffee reading stuff on my PC at my desk in Thames Valley Park. Having had a good week weight loss wise, I elected to go for a walk up to the BP Garage at the top of Shepherds House Hill instead. I’ve now found the bridge under the Reading to Paddington Railway line behind the Regus Building, and walked up past what used to be Earley Power Station....
Computacenter win two VMware European Awards
Just heard that Paul Casey and Martin Clarkson will be picking up VMware EMEA Solution Partner of the Year, plus VMware EMEA Emerging Products Partner of the Year, at Partner Exchange in February. Go team!
Apple's Daunting numbers →
Another growth spurt, with very impressive comparisons vs Google, Microsoft et al. More valuable than Greece to boot. Click the title to get to the Techcrunch article.
Learning all things Hadoop
Reading O’Reilly’s book about Hadoop in Costa while Jane works her way around Tesco doing the weekly shop. Funny that the UI for Pig prompts for commands with Grunt>. Hive looks good but I’m still yet to get to the bit when you clue in the indexes you want to use. Still a few hundred pages to go before contemplating doing something “real world”…
The pain of Multiple Apple IDs →
One of the few pains I have with Apple is having an old MobileMe account (ianwaring@me.com) and a separate Apple ID for my iTunes purchases (ian.waring@gmail.com). With the introduction of iCloud, you find yourself having various different logins and mass confusion of which account or password you should be using. You end up one-plussing the “remind me of my password” option to...
All systems go!
Tableau V7 is extracting data out of our Task Management cube at full speed, and I now have the data to do a proper Analytics/Dashboard job early next week. Just in time for the mid-week deadline, after which I can get on with other work that will have a bigger financial impact.
Brief meeting with our new Datacentre Business Unit Director this afternoon. At least got time to show the party piece...
Apple Education Keynote →
Very impressive (and free) book creation and distribution tools. Designed for text books, but worthy of much wider use. Well worth the watch. Click on the title to start the show…
Tableau V7 discoveries
Found out that Apple now use Tableau as their internal BI tool; an OS/X version is on the roadmap. That Tableau has UK postcode area maps in the product, and if you have a data point within one, it can fill out the shape with colour corresponding to volumes/values etc.
The one confusing thing is licensing of Server. Tableau sales give richter scale pricing by user count ($1,000 per user). The...
At the London Tableau V7 Event
Todd Curry speaking - new version revelations to follow!
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
Late night dialled into the VPN
Have an OLAP query running within Excel on our TASK manager cube. Vain attempt to get enough data out, adding new fields one by one, to eventually get enough to plot some neat SLA stats (or root causes of any speed bumps). Then to download the new Tableau Desktop Professional V7 release in the morning.
At the London Tableau V7 launch in the afternoon. Just queued up my 5 users renewals today;...
Top 10 Business Intelligence Trends for 2012 →
I’m having a bit of a Mongoose:Cobra type scrap trying to get a Microsoft Analysis Services cube playing nice. At least for long enough so I can get useful data from our company TASK manager system, so I can download to Excel and start getting some business analytics done. In the meantime, among the “Out of Memory”, “Can’t get Index” and simple refusals to spit...
