Happy New Year dear reader, at arkk we're gearing up for a big year in 2010.  As 2009 closed I was invited by our friends at CIAEW to their "Demystifying XBRL" seminar which took place on December 17th at One Moorgate Place.  With over 100 professionals from the world of accountancy it was a splendid barometer to indicate how the market was embracing the Ghost of Christmas Future.  Most of the people I talked to were encountering the subject for the first time, and there was a lot of baffled expressions, despite the best efforts of the presenters who did their best to keep it simple (I thought the presentation by CoreFiling of their in development product was enjoyable - again from an IT perspective).  This is the challenge of introducing such a complex IT solution (iXBRL) to an audience whose knowledge lies within another domain (accountancy).  Personally it took me weeks to get used to xml grammars when I first started out as a developer (and my projects had no tupples in, unlike XBRL!) so what chance does a room encountering it for the first time have? 
The New Year will bring new premises for arkk, we're moving offices from leafy Bishop's Stortford to The City, check out our contact page for our new address, and all the best for 2010!