tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192816312011-04-22T03:40:39.021ZThis is a blog dedicated to the subjects which interest me the most. The development of an ultra low cost, free (as in speech) business administration system for the developing world (and myself) and the business itself. I hope that my experiences might be of interest.Ian Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02269780644998749908noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281631.post-7279095865500495102006-12-03T18:01:00.000Z2006-12-03T18:12:43.056Z

Moving back from Newcastle.I am moving back to London after three months 'abroad'.This is the plan for the next seven days. Might be a good template for future moves ...Objectives.1. To move all stuff out of Heaton to suitable medium term location by the end of the week.2. To secure short term accomodation close to work and move in for Christmas period.Constraints.1. 1.5 days work with

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It's been a while since my last post. I have taken a contract position (as a business analyst/project manager) with a well known television company which has meant that some of the activities that I am most closely associated with have slowed down for the last three months. That said the business as a whole has progressed and I have managed to stick around for the regular steering committees

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Accounting systems.We have been using a proprietary accounting system for some years. There are a couple of problems with it as it stands. It is not web enabled and so you can only use it if you are on the machine where it is installed unless you go through a backup and restore on a demo machine, it is not an enterprise accounting system (it doesn't deal with multi-company or multi-currency

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Building a multi channel retail infrastructure with open source software.This is a paper to describe how we created a multi-channel retail infrastructure with open source software and commodity hardware. This is an ongoing project that is now in its fourth year and we are experiencing some levels of success in each of the areas in which we operate. I hope that this will be of interest to the

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Several things have happened in the last couple of weeks. We have possibly secured a wholesale outlet for Fairtrade products which would be a good thing. It would be on City Road which is in the centre of London with outstanding loading and packing areas. KSH and I have been working on upgrading the current site to the latest build of the ERP software that we've been using. This will be a one

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Had a good meeting with Neil last night (brother, business partner) where it became apparent that we still have to establish a direction for the business. We have a number of ideas, most sound good and meet with the approval of everyone we meet (more about them later) and we have a number of truly outstanding opportunities but only a finite amount of time.Off the back of the EGM that we had a

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