→ by David Porter on June 10th, 2013
Too Much Technology, Or Too Little for Simple Things?
There will be always be hot debate between those who want ever more technology and those who want less. Most people will be somewhere in the middle. More of what they like, less of what they don’t understand or need.
There is is some polarisation on these issues. Is there a limit to the amount of technology we as people can take without either actually becoming robots or just feeling we are?
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→ by David Porter on June 5th, 2013
Running, Swimming, Cycling: Anything Can Happen
Last week we carried on MBF Blogs an interview with our sponsored Ironman triathlete (cycling, swimming and running), Joe Skipper. As a light-hearted follow-up up, we’re featuring some of the mishaps that have befallen other athletes and supporters over the years.
We hope and pray that Joe never experiences any of these first hand, obviously.
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→ by David Porter on June 4th, 2013
Parasites in Real or Digital Form Can Cause Real Damage
Some pundits reckon as much as one in 35 one pound coins is fake and 400,000 forged notes are in circulation. That’s depressing news for those who value a stable currency.
It is scant comfort to discover that forging has always been around. Sir Isaac Newton (he of the theory of gravity) is attributed with thinking of uniform weights and sizes for our coinage, over three centuries ago.
Yahoo! publishes a handy video on things to watch out for. These include scams and cons on the net and on the phone.
But there are far deeper issues than that at stake about money and values and the role of the internet. A strong feeling persists that the net devalues lots of things, particularly the business of culture and creativity.
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→ by David Porter on June 3rd, 2013
Do Emails Improve Efficiency?
Since we last wrote about offices, work and related digital technology, more recent research suggests the situation has changed. Maybe for the better, perhaps for the worse. It depends on your take on workplace skills.
An April 2013 Warwick Business School survey found the average UK office worker now deals with ‘10,000 messages year, 40 a day.’ But above average, one in twelve copes with 100 a day. A staggering 10% of staff ‘spend the entire working day attached to either a computer or a mobile phone.’
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→ by David Porter on May 30th, 2013
With the new season for sports of all kinds now underway, we interviewed local Ironman triathlete, MBF-sponsored, Joe Skipper about how the sponsorship he gets enables him to carry on working.
Joe would often go out training with the ‘The Rock Estate Runners & Riders‘, an Oulton Broad/Lowestoft group of sporting adventurers and it was through that he connected with MBF boss, Steve Barber.
It was suggested that Joe needed a decent bike, but already had one, so Steve offered to step in as and when and help to meet the away costs incurred in training and events, particularly hotels and airfares.
This was in July 2012 and Joe is grateful for being the right person at the right time and in the right place for Steve to be willing to support a local sportsman fulfill his dream.
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