Branston’s Christmas Market from 3 – 9pm near the Waggon & Horses. Santa arrives at 4pm and the lights are going to be switched on at 5pm. There are stalls, rides, games, entertainment, food, drink and of course mulled wine. And for those if us who do not drink wine, Andy in the Waggon, serves […]
The stalls are up – Branston Christmas Market are you going to be there? Read More »
We are just about to leave to help set up the stalls for the Branston Christmas Market. Are you going to be there?
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Darren from Develop and Promote and I launched the podcast last night at the Business Club, with a presentation during the meeting. Diana and Lizzie were there as well, promoting it and explaining to members what the show is about. There was plenty of interest and a good response to the “distinctive” name, with a
My Head’s a Bit Fuzzy Podcast – Show 001 now available Read More »
We are going to launch our new podcast, with Develop and Promote at the Business Club this Monday. This week Lizzie and I are talking about passwords. Next week we are going to start on search engine optimisation and the week after that it is “what is a good data backup”. If you go to
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Octagon Technology and the Branston Business Network will be supporting this event – money raised during the evening will be going to local charities. It should be great fun and I am sure there will be mulled wine and Christmas ale available at the Waggon. click on the above image for a larger version If
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I have been out this morning to support one of our clients, Guitar George, who was exhibiting at the Bracebridge Heath Festival. Over the past few weeks I have watched him build his latest dramatic electric guitar, the “Snake”. This is primarily an exhibition piece which is getting close to being finished, it is just
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It was the Branston Business Network last night and I gave the fifteen minute presentation, a quick overview about cloud computing. I have put my notes online here. Thanks to all those people who said they enjoyed the talk and got some good information from it. Branston Business Network is an active, informal group of
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At Octagon we spend a lot of time on support and help lines sorting problems for our clients. Some of which we find are neither “helpful” or “supportive” and you just feel their “press one for support etc” is put there just to annoy you. One of the funniest things we get when we call
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Is DropBox secure? There is a short story before I get to “Secure Cloud Storage”. Today my appointments did not join up, which meant a two hour gap around midday. I had the choice to go from the north of the city to Branston and then back to the north of the city or to
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