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A recent presentation by Toby Wright, chief technology officer at the Telegraph Media Group — one of the world’s oldest newspapers — suggests that they can take a tip from startups when it comes to being more efficient: namely, use cloud-computing services.
Been looking forward to this book for a while. Nice write up up, but an absolute blinder of a quotation from Douglas Adams;
"1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really."
Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour??
Nik is pondering life in his mid-30's and is fearing that his parents might have been right all the time.
During his ever increasing years he has discovered
*that short hair is better than long
*Thai food is funky
*Your kids only pretend to like your music.
*You can never have enough gadgets
*Jean-Paul Sartre was right
*Gardening and DIY are boring
*The Velvet Underground were the greatest band ever. Period!
