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As the evenings draw in and Santa’s little helpers are doing their stretching exercises, Ian Jindal, Editor in Chief of InternetRetailing.net, will be reviewing the key developments of note to ecommerce professionals during 2007.
Looking forward to heading up to Leeds tomorrow to speak at a Digital Shorts event, entitled [...]

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Here a photo of the olives after their first week in brine.
Since starting on the preserving olives route last month I’d been soaking the olives in plain water, changing daily.
Last week I moved onto the soak-for-a-week-in-brine and this is the state of affairs just before I rinsed them and put [...]

This is my Editorial piece from November’s issue of InternetRetailing magazine.
A plague of recruitment calls has set Ian Jindal to musing about what we can learn from the reign of the Chief Electricity Officer.
The phone’s been ringing to the point of melting at IR Towers recently and invariably the opening phrases are either “Hi, I’m [...]

So, this was the advice I gave myself about upgrading to Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”:
* don’t rush – wait for the war stories
* don’t rush – do some major backups
* don’t rush – do some serious housekeeping
* don’t rush – check you’ve got the serial numbers and details of all applications ESPECIALLY those little plugins [...]

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This is a really fun training day and you can (see details of the event) and I was speaking on “Emerging trends in social media”.
This is a photo of the audience as I manifestly fail to update my site via SMS… thankfully it worked the second time
The slides from [...]

This is a great story – even if you’re not a ‘landy’ fan: individual enterprise, regeneration and employment, core engineering skills, waste-no mentality, sustainability, exports and – to cap it all – a bit of M&A intrigue too.