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May – The wettest drought on record

May

Ah May, the blossoms of early Summer masquerading as a cool Spring complete with resplendent if somewhat late April raindrops washing away the winter blues. The tranquil evenings allowing ever longer spells of relaxation in the chaise longue that everyone simply must have in their gardens (no we don’t, Ed.), laptop in hand, Pimms quietly [...]

By jeremyhurst | Posted in Business, Careers, Fun Stuff, General Stuff, SD Newsletter, Sidebar Latest, Slightly Different Websites

April already? Where did the time go?

Apr

Wow – it’s been a whirlwind few months here at Slightly Different towers, and one that has seen a complete lack of activity on the blog front because we’ve been furiously busy. But it’s been the right kind of busy which is always good. I can’t believe it’s April already, and after a comment from [...]

By jeremyhurst | Posted in Business, Hot Links, SD Newsletter, Sidebar Latest, Slightly Different Websites, Support

SD Marketing Guru Delivers Again*

Jan

We’d like to congratulate Alan, our Marketing Manager, on becoming a father for the first time! His daughter, Annabella, has arrived – cue fanfare – after several months of antenatal classes where Alan learned to breathe, did lots of reading, and did a huge amount of preparation for this awesome moment. Congratulations to the three [...]

By jeremyhurst | Posted in Awards, Fun Stuff, General Stuff

Mervyn Spencer Captains Slightly Different Golf Team

Jan

The Rotary Club of Perranzabuloe (in deepest darkest Cornwall) recently held its 18th charity AM-AM Open Golf Championship. Slightly Different fielded an all star team, and despite the harrowing weather conditions including gale force winds and horizontal rain, three brave souls representing Slightly Different joined around 40 other teams at Perranporth Golf Club for the [...]

By admin | Posted in Awards, Business, Fun Stuff, General Stuff

Personalisation – You Are The Context

Jan

To anyone who has browsed the Internet in the last ten years, you may have noticed the occasional advertisement appearing from time to time. They might be banner advertisements across the top of the page, or ads positioned vertically down the side also known as skyscraper ads. They could be within a defined area on [...]

By jeremyhurst | Posted in General Stuff, Marketing, Sidebar Latest

Looking Good – Upgrading Your PC’s Display Hardware

Jan

I’ve been asked a couple of times recently for some recommendations on what display hardware to buy for a high end gaming PC, and I thought that my response might be useful to other people out there with the same question. And no, I’m not on commission! It is assumed that you’ve got the fastest [...]

By jeremyhurst | Posted in Design, General Stuff, Technical

Money Makes The World Go Round

Jan

While articles in the news now regularly include the word recession, the EuroZone is looking worse by the day, and nobody seems to know what the fallout of this will be to the wider economy, I don’t hear much in the way of good news put out by the media. This is a shame really [...]

By jeremyhurst | Posted in Business, General Stuff

Slightly Different’s 2012 World Predictions

Jan

As this year is predicted by many to be a year of change, I thought I’d throw some more fuel on the fire and make some of my own predictions as to what I think will happen this year. Hopefully, I won’t precipitate a Conspiracy Theory situation where masked agents abseil through my windows if [...]

By jeremyhurst | Posted in Fun Stuff, General Stuff, January 2012

Cowslip Workshops on Channel 4

Dec

Jo Colwill Helps Kirstie Allsopp Cowslip workshops very own Jo Colwill, is appearing on Kirstie Allsopp’s TV programme, Home for Christmas on Channel 4 tonight at 8pm. Jo is so completely unassuming and so I’m sure she won’t be shouting about this too much, but all the team at SD would like to wish her good luck [...]

By saira | Posted in December 2011, General Stuff

Festive Office Fun

Dec

You won’t catch us playing any of these games or tracking Santa, or having a laugh at our suppliers dancing! of course, although we’ve had to try them out for you… just to make sure, you understand..

By admin | Posted in December 2011

2011 Christmas Office Hours

Dec

Office Hours London Office Our London office hours over the holidays are: Closing on Thursday 22nd December at 5pm Re-opening on Tuesday 3rd January at 9am Head Office – Cornwall Our Head Office in Cornwall usually closes between Christmas and New Year, and this year we close at 5pm on Friday 23rd December, then from the 28th [...]

By saira | Posted in December 2011, General Stuff, SD Newsletter, Support