Ideas & Opinions

09 Oct

I'm no designer or engineer, but I absolutely love Computer Aided Design (CAD) software and all its derivatives and associated applications....

18 Sep

Everyone loves an award ceremony, don't they? Especially the organisers who charge finalists and corporate sponsors hundreds of pounds for each person that attends. So, based on 25-years of entering and attending awards ceremonies for various software products, projectors, printers, etc., here are a few observations....

27 Aug

Hero to Zero at the speed of a new buzz-word Last year, as far as I could could make out, the world was about to be saved by 'Big Data'. The phrase was EVERYWHERE, and the idea was being used for everything you could possibly imagine. But what wasn't clear was...

15 Aug

Cornwall. Preferred holiday destination of Prime Ministers, surfers, and a surprisingly large number of people from The Netherlands and Germany....

22 Jun

Anyone who is truly interested in cars has been told that the weakest part is the nut holding the steering wheel. Ha ha - everyone laughs at that one. But how many actually think it applies to them?...

22 Jun

I screen comments; so sending spammy posts full of links to crazy, unconnected websites just annoys me and gets your comment marked as SPAM....

06 Jun

The arrival of the courier bringing the day's lab work causes mild excitement in every dental practice. In many practices, the appointment book is organised to take advantage of this; we usually take impressions before his/her arrival, and carry out fittings afterwards....

25 May

This year, IPEX 2017 is back to its established and popular home at the NEC in Birmingham. It runs from 31st October to 3rd November....