Dick Sblog

For those of you interested in all aspects of flexible working, I’ve located some relevant webcasts from the Act Now initiative in Devon and Cornwall…

From a conference on flexible working

A presentation from Peter James of the Sustainable IT initiative

Robert Mannings, the BT futureologist

The growth in interest in what are [now] called Cloud applications is really quite extraordinary, just do a search in Google Trends for the term ‘cloud computing’ and look at the exponential rise in enquiries. I’m very interested in hearing about any such applications so that I can promote them via the Grid Computing Knowledge Transfer Network to illustrate the way in which new technical infrastructures are changing business practices and promoting new working models. So, if you know any, please add a comment to this blog and let me know what they are, what they offer and a URL, please.

I’m off to Borneo tomorrow to go caving for a month, exploring the greatest caves on Earth. As I like to say, cave exploration is the only true exploration frontier remaining on the planet. Using remote sensing techniques you can see what you are letting yourself in for anywhere else on the Earth’s surface, including below the sea or even in space. (And the proof of this, if you need it, is the availability on google earth of sub-sea detail. Of course, google earth is, itself, an example of a cloud application…)

In caves, you can’t – every bend in the passage represents the truly unknown. (And being below ground means that you can’t get email or the web – bliss!)