In my present work environment we talk a lot about “losing the attitude“. Usually it means that your spirits sink so low that you cannot motivate yourself to do the job. I have realised th...
This is a full version of my interview on BBC Radio Manchester in November 2006, at Ordsall Hall in Salford. I was interviewed by Richard Fair who was heavily involved in BBC Manchester Blog, along wi...
As they say, if you can still control things you’re not moving fast enough. God knows, I moved three times in the last two months, and while I’m open to travel opportunities I like to thin...
It is a commonplace among psychologists to say that people often find it difficult to say “no”. I propose to revise, in fact to refute, this point of view. It is erroneous because this is ...
Chris Taggart’s short talk on open data and the rewards of failure struck a particularly strong cord with me. The governments and businesses have lackadaisically been adopting new technologies a...
As my colleagues often say, “things are happening”. Right now they are happening all across Manchester, as the most innovative, thought-provoking, academic yet accessible festival is back ...
65 years ago, in 1945, the Second World War had ended. In Russia and former Soviet republics 9th of May is the national holiday which is always marked by a pompous and majestic parade. As I was growin...
Manchester I am always amazed by the grandeur of civic architecture of the 19th c. Take this lovely vast terracota building on the corner of London Road. It occupies a triangular space circumscribed b...
Manchester The seated statue of the father-founder of computer science can be found in the middle of Sackville Gardens. The pensive professor gazes at the flowerbed in front on him, holding an apple. ...
Manchester – Eating & Drinking – Cafes & Coffee Shops Although a part of Manchester Museum, Cafe Muse is open to everyone who ventured that far into Oxford Road. Don’t be mis...