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Welcome to my blog, which I hope you'll find to be an interesting mixture of real-world experience, ideas, comments and observations.
Tom Gaskell
I've worked in industry as a consultant, manager and quality trouble-shooter for most of my career.
After spending 14 years in a multi-national consulting organisation and 10 years working in telecomms design and manufacturing start-ups, I set up the Cambridge (UK)-based quality, manufacturing and business consultancy Primilis (http://www.primilis.com) in 2006.
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Eddie Mair rattles my speakers
Intermittent problems are a real pain. They never show themselves when you are in a position to do anything about it. I have been disappointed by the Bose sound system in my Mazda; it under-uses its sub-woofer, fails to automatically … Continue reading
How to get 5.1 audio on Sky HD – updated
UPDATED – SEE BELOW! I have just installed a Sky HD system for a colleague and hit a really annoying problem. The Sky HD box puts out stereo digital audio onto its HDMI connector, and provides 5.1 (surround sound) digital … Continue reading
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Wireless technology recruitment in Cambridge
It’s great to see a real home-grown high-tech success story in the UK. Cambridge Broadband Networks, a company I know well, is just such a success. They’ve recently celebrated their tenth anniversary and are growing very quickly at the moment, … Continue reading
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More ‘Snickers’ than Marathon…
Windsurfing4CancerResearch, Grafham Water 2 May 2010 Gosh that was hard… After a month of lovely warm, dry weather, the day of the Sunrise Sunset event dawned with the thermometer well under 10 degrees C, heavy rain and blustery winds. Lovely! … Continue reading
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Windsurfing 4 Cancer Research
It seemed like a good idea to contribute to the 2010 Windsurfing 4 Cancer Research event, having lost both an uncle and a friend to the disease recently and with a member of the family currently undergoing treatment. And yes … Continue reading
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Windows Live Writer
Until now I’ve been using the WordPress user interface. It’s a little clunky but you get used to it. However, today I was introduced to the joys of Microsoft Live Writer by the IT Manager at one of my clients … Continue reading
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My New Year’s Resolution – give up on Amazon Marketplace
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope 2010 brings you peace, happiness and success. I’m not big on resolutions, but one that I am going to make is about dear Amazon and its third party retailing arm, Amazon Marketplace. My recent experience … Continue reading
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The quality of supermarket check-outs
Don’t you just hate the new self-service checkouts? The ones that “save you time” but actually take a lot longer than the normal ones and save the supermarket shed-loads of money at your expense. Sainsbury’s, Tesco and B&Q seem to … Continue reading
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The hard disk is dead!
Hard disks are surprisingly reliable. If you think about the technology – the head floats on a cushion of air thinner than a speck of dust, or even a fingerprint – it’s remarkable they work at all. And they keep … Continue reading
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Exhibitionist!
My consultancy Primilis has exhibited at a trade show! We were at TechnologyWorld09 in Coventry on 23rd and 24th November. We have attended many shows but this is the first time we had a stand of our own. It was … Continue reading
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