The great Wayne Gretzky is credited with saying: "Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it is." In soccer terms, it's a terrific metaphor for saying that we should always be looking ahead while keeping our eye on the ball.

Earlier today I ...

Using templates significantly improves efficiency and also promotes consistency and 'house style'. In fact, the first episode of our 'Getting more mpg from Microsoft Office' series was devoted to templates. Perhaps Word is the most obvious applicati...

IT Counts has witnessed a continuing skirmish over the rights and wrongs of using spreadsheets. In a recent contribution on the subject I included a link to a list of spreadsheet ‘horror’ stories. I am very aware of the dangers of using spreadsheets...

 Anything to do with gadgets is usually Julia's turf but this was one I could not let pass. This short video features Martin Varsavsky, an Argentine/Spanish person who made an obscene amount of money out of the Internet before turning his at...

 Do you twitter? Have you ever tweeted 'Going out for the evening, back late, so signing off', or 'leaving for a meeting now', or 'having a lovely coffee with Barb and Pete before the concert', or something else which lets out that you are not at ho...