http://steves.seasidelife.com I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:44:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What made it the best? I pretty much ignored the scheduled talks and spent most of the time in one to one discussions. Some of them scheduled in advance by our great Citrix and Appsense teams, especially Chris and Alister. Some of them opportunistic scheduled with twitter followers and some ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/06/17/on-my-way-home-from-the-best-iforum-so-far/ when I got a big screen for my home office I thought I would make most use of it sat at my desk, luxuriating in all that screen real estate. Whilst I do use it that way, what's made most difference is that I can sit on my sofa with my laptop and ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/06/12/i-recommend-a-big-screen-in-the-office-2/ On recovery days like today, the sofa in the office is my favourite place to work.      Posted via email from Steve's posterous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/06/12/the-sofa-beckons/ Steve over on the Reflexions blog try’s to answer the question Does Corporate Failure = PKM? posed by Nick Milton and I must admit I find myself agreeing with Steve, who has a few points of agreement with Nick.  That is up until the point where Nick is ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/05/14/does-corporate-failure-pkm/ Graham writes an interesting post where he compares the impact of slow login and slow applications.  It’s a good analysis and leads Graham to conclude that forced to choose he would go for slow login, because it’s predictable and infrequent and so can be proactively managed (ie do something else ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/05/14/virtualisation-slow-applications/ Every year or so I hear Microsoft talking about Internet Search and implying that Google Search is nothing compared to what Microsoft has in store for us.  Unfortunately what seems to be delivered is useful, but incremental. I heard about Wolfram Alpha today, and it the first time for ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/05/05/the-future-of-search-on-the-web/ I'm using Postie to allow me to send an email to my wordpress blog, it works great, supports images as attachments, some formatting and categories,tags and more, it also has better security than the built in wp email support. What it doesn't do is trigger twitter tools, so currently ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/05/02/posting-via-email-to-wordpress/ I gave my old bike to my Mum a few weeks ago as an excuse to by another, as if even more excuse was needed though I had the opportunity to take advantage of the governments cycle to work scheme. Vince seemed to have a few issues getting a ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/05/02/new-bike/ I had the chance to spend the morning being briefed by VMware on their current VDI offerings and their longer term roadmap, a lot of it is NDA but it’s useful to take a look at the broad themes and to contrast their approach to that of Citrix and to ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/04/30/vmware-vdi/ Sam asked me a couple of weeks ago to blog about my new Office. I’ve been resisting because I wanted to spend at least a month working in it before I felt ready to really comment on how it’s changed my life.  Seems a bit of a bold statement ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/02/12/my-new-home-office/ I’m watching an old episode of the West Wing and the “President” - Martin Sheen - just said “one of the good things about having MS is that you learn to appreciate the good days”.  I don’t have MS, but I do have a chronic condition with good days and ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2009/02/11/appreciate-the-good-days/ My trustworthy Blackberry 8800 was upgraded to a Bold last week and after much anticipation I can definitely say it’s been a very worthwhile upgrade.  I’ve made these notes which might help anyone considering or receiving a bold in the near future. Background I’ve previously ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/11/13/blackberry-bold-the-good-the-bad-and-the-great/ I’ve known for years that I will eventually switch to Firefox, the richness of the extensibility appeals too much to a tinkering power user like myself, but it’s taken me literally years to get comfortable enough with it to drop Maxthon as my day to day browser. To date ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/09/09/the-inevitable-switch-to-firefox/ I've hardly done any blogging since I started to use Twitter so as an experiment I thought I would enable email blogging on my wordpress account and see if I blog any more often now that I have no excuse! http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/09/05/mobile-blogging/ Open source has always been difficult at Microsoft, they've struggled with how to use its obvious value as a development and delivery model, but the SharePoint podcasting kit seems to be a great example of how to do it right.  Although SharePoint itself is unlikely to ever be ... http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/16/open-source-at-microsoft/