If anyone visited the Frog stand at BETT this year, you may have noticed Bob the Frog glowing with the light of a thousand suns.  Well, he’s still glowing – only now he’s glowing at the front of the office, blinding visitors with his incandescent – well, fluorescent, to be precise – glory. I’m not [...]

I’ve been meaning to post something about this to my site for a while, but I’ve been busy.  Oh, alright – I’ve been playing Guild Wars.  Sheesh. Anyway, on Friday I was treated – along with the rest of the staff at Frog – to a sneak peek of Frog 3.0, the next-generation software we’ll [...]

Well, not Santa per se…  More one of his helpers. Okay, it was company MD Gareth (no relation) Davies in a daft hat handing out the results of the Secret Santa we’ve been running. I’m pleased to say that I came away from it with an absolutely awesome toy crossbow – which is powerful enough [...]

Well, I’ve been lax in updating this ‘ere site – but with good reason. My new job is keeping me extremely busy, and conspires with my commitments to bit-tech to keep me away from anything that might resemble free time. Case in point – on Tuesday, I travelled to London to attend a training course [...]

Well, I’ve survived the first day of my new job. Everyone seems really nice, and there’s certainly plenty to keep me busy. Between a full audit of software and hardware, the installation and configuration of an internal WSUS server, and sundry other tasks it looks like I’ll be kept out of trouble for the foreseeable [...]

My first change of career in six years. I’ve just had a ‘phone call from my friendly neighbourhood headhunter confirming that I am now (well, 4th August, anyway) employed by FrogTrade – a Halifax-based producer of magic Linux-based boxes that do everything a school could possibly ever want to do. It’s a bit scary, but [...]