Blog commitment

Posted on February 8, 2009 by simon tonks

I am making a commitment here…
I am going to attempt to write a blog post every day for this blog. It has such potential to allow out team to share some of the things it is involved in.
Hopefully, some others in the team will be inspired to write and contribute – hint, hint…
I have just [...]

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Disaster Recovery Simulation

Posted on February 3, 2009 by simon tonks

For the past 4 years we have had a very strong disaster recovery plan in place (a bit better than Dilbert’s on the right).
We have built up a very strong partnership with ICM – an IT DR specialist.
All our key servers and infrastructure is covered against all levels of disaster.
Each year, as part of the [...]

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Primary Goals for ITS in 2009

Posted on January 7, 2009 by simon tonks

Another challenging year begins – possibly more so than any year before. The 2 primary goals for the IT Services team this year are:

Fordrough Campus

2009 will see the opening of the new Fordrough Campus (and the closure of East) – City College has had several new campuses in recent years, but nothing approaching this scale. [...]

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Your time and Your attention

Posted on November 19, 2008 by simon tonks

Take half an hour out to watch this.
Merlin Mann is a master at time management techniques, and this talk at Google has some very interesting views on managing your time, and your attention.
It’s a busy world we live in, with so many different projects, tasks, hobbies and people demanding our time.
Definitely worth 30 minutes of [...]

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The BIG Five-Oh !

Posted on October 13, 2008 by simon tonks

Big John is the BIG Five-OH on Wednesday…. he’s kept that to himself
Happy Birthday to John for Wednesday.
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the future is still Orange

Posted on December 5, 2007 by simon tonks

just a quick post to let the team know…. the photo’s from our CPD event at the Orange studio are now uploaded to the team Flickr site.
click on the photos over on the right to see them all.
a good day – must do it again.

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