One year ago I decided to offer myself a very special birthday gift: I accepted a full-time position with Raincity Studios. The wrapper looked cool, the card was inviting and it sounded good when I shook the box.

Little did I know what was to come when I accepted the offer... We were a crew of six at that time, occupying the cosy 525 Seymour office and working on small and engaging projects. Then talented new team members and soon-to-be-friends joined our gang. Next there was the fruitful Bryght acquisition and, more recently, the opening of the Shanghai office. We are now a family of 27 hard-working, dedicated and fun-loving people, collaborating together on larger exciting projects. It feels like I'm still unwrapping the gift...

The PC Turns 25... Oh, I Remember When You Were Just This BIG!

IBM launched its' first personal computer 25 years ago this month in 1981. According to an article in this week's The Economist, we are meant to mark this IBM anniversary as THE benchmark that saw the first PC "that ended up defining the standards around which a vast new industry then coalesced".

The article goes on to say that we should also be celebrating what this PC brought to all of humankind: cheaper computers, more readily and widely available, more useful, and of course, the ever-advancing and evolving new technologies, from voice-over-internet to online commerce, to the overall communications Mecca that we all could now never live without (!).