Recently a combination of Terence and James forced me to confront my prejudices about mobile apps for public service needs in a way that I haven’t done since the days of Tom’s seminal blogpost. I’m in no hurry to endorse a Wild West of apps and most times demands will not be backed with a…

To paraphrase Ice Cube…”that was a good day week”. It was the nearest to the kind of shape of week I thought I was signing up for when I took the role and gives me hope that the tide is turning towards something with a bit more balance. I’m going to continue with last weeks…

I did work some of last week but honestly my head was all over the place as I tried to arrange the follow up appointments from my worrying blood test results so I was off my game to say the least. Honestly it is all pretty scary – my blood sugar numbers are horrific (much,…

I had a really great time at UKGovcampXL last weekend in London and it really lived up to the XL element. It was a big and blod statement of intent from the community and totally justified the risk in essentially doubling the size of the event. All that said it did somewhat make me miss…

I always loved the Lifehacker ‘How I Work’ series and the Uses This website so every few years I update my own take on the questions (partly because it occasionally inspires a few other folk to do similar things and I am always nosey!). It is three years since I did it last so here…