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Saving the World 1 Watt at a time?

Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:49 AM by SmallCountry
“Every little helps” according to Tesco’s and the nice lady rattling her Sally Army collection box. Unfortunately, in terms of our Ecology and Environment, that’s just not true. To change the post-industrial trends in fossil fuel dependency and carbon Read More...
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Lucky White Heather?

Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 6:46 PM by SmallCountry
Happy New Year. Its getting harder to stay cheery these days. We've all tried to stay positive as the sub-prime crisis spawned the credit crunch which smothered the global economy. But its easy to lose heart as pensions and house prices tumble and mighty Read More...
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Facing West

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:01 AM by SmallCountry
In the 18th century the city of Glasgow amassed great wealth through trade with the New World. Opinions abound in the history books of why the Glasgow Tobacco Lords achieved a virtual monopoly on the weed trade, but it came down to one fundamentals- the Read More...
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Microsoft To Mainstream Containerized Data Centers

Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:02 PM by SmallCountry
Trends of consolidation can be seen in the migration of servers to fewer, larger more automated datacenter locations, and also in consolidation of the units within those datacenters. With the availability of advanced management tools and virtualisation Read More...
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£600m green investment for Scotland : Hi-Tech Scotland

Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 1:35 PM by SmallCountry
Internet Villages International announced that they will constructing datacentres on their 140 acre site in Lockerbie. The announcement of the creation of more datacentre space is hardly newsworthy, but there are a few unusual aspects to this project: Read More...
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Land of Fire and Ice

Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:54 PM by SmallCountry
Iceland. Thoughts of bargain supermarket frozen turkey twizzlers, Viking epics, alternative rock band The Sugarcubes, may all be triggered when naming this barren and volcanic North Atlantic island nation. But soon Iceland may also be known as a world Read More...
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Head in the "Cloud"

Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 11:47 AM by SmallCountry
At the age of 24 I rode my bike across the 6.5km Columbia River bridge between Oregon and Washington state. Big river, big bridge. I remember thinking it would make a damn :-) good power plant. Upriver, past Portland and in the shadow of Mount Hood, I Read More...
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Baiting the Bear and Zapping the Zombies

Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:59 PM by SmallCountry
The internal affairs of the small Baltic republic of Estonia hit the global news headlines in April when its ethnic Russian minority rioted in protest of the removal of a Red army war memorial . As a resident of another small country, I know that the Read More...
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Membership has its privileges

Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:26 PM by SmallCountry
Starting a business is hard. Making it successful and keeping it growing is harder. In our Global Village even smallest business must constantly keep in touch with the competition, the changing market, and find new customers and opportunities. Certainly Read More...
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Office Live or Die...

Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:43 AM by SmallCountry
Regular readers of this column will be aware of Mrs. Ferry's limited grasp of technology, so she of course immediately turned to her in-house IT provider. However, as a busy executive at the cutting edge of high-tech, I am of course too busy cutting million Read More...
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SharePoint Sleeper

Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 8:53 AM by SmallCountry
I was interested to see this article in the Wall St. Journal confirming the established position of Microsoft's greatest stealth technology - SharePoint 2007. Several of the Scottish Microsoft Partners I work with closely have invested huge time and effort Read More...
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Incapacitated or Entrepreneurial?

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:53 AM by SmallCountry
I found myself incapacitated this week when the dreaded lurgy swept through Chateux Ferry. For 3 whole days I could not drag myself into work, and languished in bed with a serious case of man-flu. But being blessed with a guilt-driven protestant work Read More...
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Great Train Journeys of our Time

Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 10:07 PM by SmallCountry
Living and working in Scotland we are privileged to have such wonderful countryside on our doorstep. As Mrs. Ferry usually annexes our car for short trips to "ladies who lunch" dates, I often find myself on public transport. This is no great hardship, Read More...
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Over the top for the big push

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:10 PM by SmallCountry
Wondering why you should bother to upgrade your laptop to Windows Vista? Perhaps you could do without the danger of a beta OS limiting your productivity, or are just thinking "why bother"? The team in Microsoft Scotland do not have the luxury of hanging Read More...
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