Problems with Ubuntu’s new shopping lens

Canonical has come in for a little bit of heat for the inclusion of the Unity Shopping Lens into the latest release of Ubuntu. This new tool, installed and switched on by default (although you can turn it off if you want), extends desktop searches online. The upshot being that when looking for a file […]

Marcus Povey

Canonical has come in for a little bit of heat for the inclusion of the Unity Shopping Lens into the latest release of Ubuntu. This new tool, installed and switched on by default (although you can turn it off if you want), extends desktop searches online. The upshot being that when looking for a file […]

Company Culture

This video, done by the fine people at RSA animate, was doing the rounds a few months ago but it really strikes a chord with me so I thought I’d re-share it here. When I rule the world this will be mandatory viewing for anyone in a management position. Company culture is set by its […]

Marcus Povey

This video, done by the fine people at RSA animate, was doing the rounds a few months ago but it really strikes a chord with me so I thought I’d re-share it here. When I rule the world this will be mandatory viewing for anyone in a management position. Company culture is set by its […]

Time is broken, we need to fix it

Once upon a time, time was, by and large, governed by the sun. Least ways it used to be, but then came the railways. Y’see the trouble was that time in those days, or at least our measurement of it, was typically read off the sundial in the town square. Since the angle of the […]

Marcus Povey

Once upon a time, time was, by and large, governed by the sun. Least ways it used to be, but then came the railways. Y’see the trouble was that time in those days, or at least our measurement of it, was typically read off the sundial in the town square. Since the angle of the […]