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Experiment in ecommerce: FAIL

We recently tried an experiment in selling stuff on the internet. It was a bit of a departure from our normal area of expertise, so it was definitely heavy on the ‘experiment’. I’ll say it right at the start: it was a complete and unmitigated failure, but not in the way I was expecting at [...]

Posted 04 April 2010 † John § Business ‡ Comments (2) °

Scraping the money together.

I have a mortgage with Northern Rock, a UK bank which collapsed (triggering the first run on a UK bank) a couple of months after we got our mortgage. It’s a bit of a nightmare, and one of the (many) things that I lie in bed thinking about at 3am when I should be sleeping. [...]

Posted 10 January 2010 † John § Ruby § Software § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Confusing

Sometimes, this industry confuses me. For example, HP’s DL140, which is a perfectly nice 1u rack server, costs just over £600 (including VAT – we’re not VAT registered) here at Insight. On that same page you can see the cost of adding in a second matching processor. Just under £600. By their logic, the entire [...]

Posted 23 February 2008 † John § Hardware § Xen ‡ Comments (0) °