Archive for 'General' Category
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
28 April 2010This the headline to the central story in today’s New York Times. The story is about the overuse of PowerPoint by the US military, especially in Afghanistan. It centers around a particular PowerPoint slide (shown below) attempting to portray the complexity of US strategy in the region. The article discusses that a Brig. Gen. H. [...]
Embedded Systems Conference – Silicon Valley
22 April 2010As I’m sure you’re well aware, the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano (which began erupting in mid-March) pretty much brought much of European airspace to a standstill over last weekend and into this week. Now that UK airspace has been reopened, it appears I can resume plans for my visit to the Embedded Systems [...]
Why is technical training so hard to get funding for?
29 March 2010Over many years of delivering technical training to the embedded systems sector, two questions have always bothered me: Why, when the economy gets difficult, are training budgets one of the first things to get cut? Why do delegates, who have waited months (sometimes years) to attend training, get pulled off mid-course? Even though a myriad [...]
Close but no cigar…
8 March 2010After not too much of a learning curve we’ve migrated the website to support wordpress and the associated tools (SQL, PHP, etc.). After checking everything was fine and giving the go ahead for the “go live” for some reason it’s lost the links to all the diagrams from the posts! So I’ll be retrofitting the [...]
Blogger.com to discontinue support for FTP
4 March 2010Unfortunately Google (via blogger.com) have announced that as of the 26th March 2010 they will discontinue support for FTP uploads from blogger accounts. Current the Feabhas blog is created and managed from blogger but uploaded to our Feabhas server. So having really just got my head around blogging it’s got to be all change. We [...]
Getting started is always the hardest thing…
4 September 2009I’ve been procrastinating for the best part of a couple of months now getting this blog started. First of all I do feel a little late to the party, has blogging been surpassed by tweeting? Strangely I’ve actually been using twitter in anger since late march (@feabhas) and I’ll cover my experiences of that in [...]