Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 February 2025
Your task for this month is to identify the singers or bands from the picture clues. Every entrant will have a chance of winning our £50 prize!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
We were as surpised as anyone to find that our February 2025 newsletter included our 50th prize-winning competition. Puzzles over the last 6 years have included word searches, logic puzzles, quizzes and much more, as this blog shows.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
In our Christmas newsletter we asked people to create an image through our website, which used behind-the-scenes code to generate pictures in Dall-E/ChatGPT. The results surpassed our expectations: here are some of the best pictures, together with the details of the overall winner of the competition.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
How did we never discover this site before? Travel into space or the ocean, use the world's most annoying password field or help spend Bill Gates's fortune, to name just 3 of the many pastimes on this amazing site.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
The software application and course pages of our website are the most important ones (apart from the home page, of course). We have completely redesigned them to make them easier to use - see what you think!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 February 2025
Much has been made in the media of how the new Chinese AI tool DeepSeek rivals almost anything that the likes of ChatGPT can offer.
Does it?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
Apparently Sora is named after the Japanese word for sky to signify its "limitless creative potential". In the future this may be true, but for now we were ... underwhelmed.
Posted by
Sam Lowrie
on 07 January 2025
This blog covers how to use Copilot to generate a geojson file that can be used in Power BI Azure maps.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 10 December 2024
In what is becoming a Christmas tradition, here are a few suggestions for things to buy the nerd in your life (you?) for Christmas this year.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 10 December 2024
How good is the new ChatGPT voice mode? Listen to this six-minute conversation and you'll realise that life will never quite be the same again. I genuinely don't think this is exaggerating!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 09 December 2024
For our newsletter competition this month everyone gets one shot only at creating a perfect image in Dall-E. This blog takes a behind-the-scenes look to explain the nuts and bolts of how we used the OpenAI API to get this to work.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 06 December 2024
Not before time, we've updated our Power BI Desktop skills test to the latest version. It's interesting to look back at the original test to see just how much has changed!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 November 2024
Rachel has created two custom GPTs allowing you to get any information on our courses and services. You can use either of these as intended (to get course details, dates, venues or prices) or to give you ideas for how you could implement a similar search GPT within your own organisation.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 November 2024
Google are right to worry about the safety of their current virtual monopoly on search, with breaking news on new desktop search versions of AI tools from ChatGPT and Claude.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 November 2024
A website which generates a different (imaginary) human face when you refresh the page doesn't sound that creepy - but somehow it is.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2024
Think you're good at Power BI Desktop data manipulation? See if you can present our Excel football results as a final table (showing games played, goals scored/conceded and points won) to have a chance of winning this month's £50 prize.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2024
Announcing the winner of our October 2024 newsletter competition, giving the answers and showing which questions people found most and least difficult
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 November 2024
I regularly include trivia quizzes in our monthly Wise Owl newsletter. Last month for the first - and probably only - time, I decided to enlist the help of ChatGPT to generate the questions, suggest plausible (but wrong) answers and add relevant pictures. Here's how I did this, so that you too can do the same!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 September 2024
Congratulations to Rory O'Connor of Freemans Grattan Holdings for winning last month's logic puzzle competition. Here's the answer!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 September 2024
Feeling stressed? Keep one of these wildlife webcams from Namibia open as you work to put everything in perspective.