So how is it going – life without MS Office? Not quite as I expected to be honest. On Sunday I reinstalled my desktop PC system and in the process removed MS Office completely to avoid cheating. That was my first mistake. I needed to create a template letterhead...
Since moving more and more of our work onto cloud computing, in particular using the growing Google suite of applications I’m now in a position to see if it really is possible to live without MS Office. So from Monday I’ll not to use any MS Office...
Solar Century are claiming that solar electricity costs will reach parity with fossil fuels by 2013. This is an interesting development coming from one of the larger UK suppliers and it is largely in line with other predictions. But it isn’t as clear cut as it...
A contact called earlier with a great idea brought back from an conference that he has just attended in USA. By combining the solar and LED packages there is a neat solution to an animal welfare problem that has been saving one American farmer in particular around...
An interesting meeting this morning with planners. They have the age old problem with implementing their new renewables policies because of the detachment between the development teams and the ultimate building user. The problem goes something like this; A developer...
From the Council’s website: Funding Most of the funding will come from Urban Splash as the Developer. However, the public sector will contribute the following: Transform South Yorkshire, the Government’s Housing Market Renewal Agency is providing £13m to cover...
