Nintendo DS: No Good for Brain Training
A recent snippet that we published reminded me of my own encounter with the ‘brain trainer’ apparently I am rated as an 80 year old. Which makes me smile, as people often comment on how quickly I am able to navigate their computer systems, write SQL queries and generally fix problems. Which got me asking, what are these devices actually training the brain to do, and should we be remotely interested?
As you get older you do become rather cynical of these ‘new fangled’ gizmo’s, which after all is said and done are simply re-hashed puzzles. If it is brown and square and has ‘I am a box’ stamped all over it, then it is probably a box. I wonder why there appears to be this obsession to re-label everything, after all - doesn’t it only make life more confusing. A bit like software actually, keep it as simple as practical and it will serve you well, start re-engineering it simply to be ‘more interesting’ and you are on a slippery slope to nowhere.
Charles Douthwaite publishes Web Snippets in the Manx Examiner, published every Tuesday on The Isle of Man.
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For my first (ever) blog I thought some background may be a good idea. In 2001 we started up a web design business with great ideas about becoming internet zillionaires…. well pay the mortgage at least, but after 6 months we realised that the local market was too small to achieve this in web design alone. So we re-focused ourselves on software development and in the process built an Award Winning CRM software called MIGTurbo. Since 2001 we have produced many different software products (and web sites) for clients, and now have well over 100 clients locally.
At the outset we set ourselves one simple goal; do the best we can and keep our promises, which judging by the number of clients we continue to do business with is obviously a good approach. We now focus on CRM & BPR (Business Proces Re-engineering) projects and are represented in the UK and Channel Islands via a number of resellers who re-sell our MIGTurbo software.
When we started off there were 2 of us, now there are 6 of us and we will probably need to take on another couple of people within the next 12 months.
The reason for my title.. well when we started, like most new businesses we were happy to get any business just to keep busy - now, however, with several projects usually on the go at any one time, oh how I miss those early days. 
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