Business on Blowfish

Xero CIS – correcting a submitted return (it is possible)

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:43:06 +0000

Solution sharing: My small business phone system, 4 lines, 6 extensions, and costs less than £10 per month

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:36:36 +0000

Printers, running costs and life expectancy

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 14:15:06 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 8

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:29:08 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 7

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:53:41 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 6

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:43:13 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 5

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:15:18 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 4

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:01:07 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 3

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:46:49 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 2

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:22:05 +0000

Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 1

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 13:00:29 +0000

A Small Business Payroll Solution – how and why I moved our payroll process from an accounting firm to do it ourselves using ‘Software as a Service’

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:36:53 +0000

How many 1st class stamps to use on heavy letters?

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:13:21 +0000

Margins and Markups: how to handle multiple discounts/rebates

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:27:28 +0000

Spam from Scottish Power, their response: we’ll carry on spamming (just not to you).

Mon, 27 Jun 2016 15:20:13 +0000

Hot topic – our backup server (overheating!)

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:59:23 +0000

Why it’s time to move our business away from 2020 Fusion design software

Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:40:11 +0000

Royalty free music and a time lapse video for work

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 12:01:24 +0000

BitDefender v Nod32

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:40:10 +0000

Network PDF printing from Windows 8

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:57:35 +0000

Gandi said thanks :-)

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:08:51 +0000

How to get noticed on LinkedIn (before LinkedIn existed)

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:15:14 +0000

Email from a new business that want's to supply my business

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:04:35 +0000

Calc (Openoffice / Libreoffice) If statements using 'between' or 'and'

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:02:37 +0000

Useful Mac Shortcut Key (show desktop)

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:31:19 +0000

Notes from moving from Windows to Mac

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:01:45 +0000

Backups for Google Calendar – a ruby application

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:27:34 +0000

View a Multi page tiff file in windows

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:50:35 +0000

15% VAT – How to work it out from 17.5% inc prices

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:40:07 +0000

VAT Rate changes – more work for the printing industry, more non revenue generating office work for me

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:09:26 +0000

We featured on ITN National news

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:47:03 +0000

My best PDA/phone ever! (it's a HTC Touch Cruise)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:46:54 +0000

Margins and markups What everyone in business needs to know.

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:38:06 +0000

VoIP at home with a Linksys SPA3102, trails, tribulations but it's working now

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:30:38 +0000

Welcome to the Christmas Party Season

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:32:30 +0000

VoIP – testing sipgate

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:43:45 +0000

Another Business Acronym

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:23:56 +0000

Plagiarism is the greatest form of flattery. I guess I've been flattered then?

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:25:40 +0000

You did do that backup…. didn't you?

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:02:59 +0000

PDF Creation, a cheap way for network users

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:02:00 +0000

Batteries will require recycling – so what happens to ipods?

Thu, 18 May 2006 12:04:38 +0000

My New Phone

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:56:08 +0000

For many many years I’ve had a Nokia 8310. Like the one in the picture here. It worked fine, fitted the car kit and did all that was expected of it. I also had a Palm IIIc (like the picture here) which meant that I could take my diary with me. It would automatically update the office diary so everyone would know where I was, and everyone could add/update appointments as needed. It was a great setup, but unfortunately there was a fatal flaw in this arrangement. I almost always didn’t have the Palm with me when I wanted it. Not because it was too big, the size was fine. It was just that whereas I could remember to take the phone with me, I didn’t use the Palm enough to make sure I would always have that with me.

There’s another problem I’ve had too. Everywhere I go on business I need to take my laptop with me. It means should something happen on one of the servers I can log in and fix it remotely. It doesn’t happen often, but it sure makes me feel better knowing that if it does I can probably do something about it. It’s no fun carrying a laptop around all day just in case and I’d been thinking it would be great if I got a PDA that could browse the internet, be my diary and be my phone all in one go. Well, these type of devices have slowly become more common but it’s only now that I’ve finally decided it’s worth spending some money in an effort to make life a little easier.

So here it is, my new phone is an O2 XDA Exec. (Actually, the picture is the silver coloured HTC Universal, the 02 model is black and branded for 02 but the only decent image I could find was from the original equipment manufacturer) This is probably going to be another very long and boring post for most of you, so if you’re really interested follow the link to see all I’ve got to say on the big change over.

Telesales

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:44:47 +0000

The Boughton 10k went well

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:25:15 +0000

To Ad, or not to Ad, that is the question

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:45:19 +0000

When business systems go bad…

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:24:10 +0000

Moving a whole network (bit by bit)

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:24:16 +0000

Computeried Diary for the whole office

Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:11:29 +0000

Run that by me one more time…

Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:57:34 +0000

Water Bills rise in price – I still think its cheap

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:04:02 +0000

Today, OFWAT (the government body that ensures the water companies in the UK are acting responsibly) announced that water bills will be rising across the UK. The news media all started saying how bad it was and that the water companies made 1.4 billion (or some such figure) and therefore didn’t need to raise the prices anyway. As is typical with the media when they report this type of story, they fail to mention half the relevant facts. So, lets go find them on the internet and come to our own conclusion (or at least, you’ll get to read my opinion).