Monthly Archive: May 2006

Want to waste a day trying to improve your productivity?

This is a great list of tools for note taking of various kinds.  If you find yourself wanting to waste a day you might like to work through them all and have a go.  For the record I didn’t try them out as OneNote seems to meet my needs pretty...

Microsoft and Softricity, some thoughts about the impact

Brian Madden provides some useful insights into the affect of Microsoft’s intention to acquire Softricity.  I for one believe this is a really big deal as it will bring virtualization technologies into the mainstream.  One of the things that has held virtualization back is the fact that every enterprise has...

Blog comments

Jon Udell is amongst an increasing number of bloggers who don’t have comments enabled.  Whilst there may be good reasons, (comment spam), I think it’s a real shame.  I for one find tremendous value in reading the comments associated with posts as they often provide a broader range of perspectives...

Wild flowers

I came across these stunning flowers whilst out walking this week!

Green

When you live by the sea, it can be quite shocking to see just how green the English countryside is.  This picture was taken in the grounds of Capernwray hall.

Capernwray bible college

Last Sunday we went to an open day at Capernwray bible college, the older girls were really keen on going for one of the week long holidays over the summer and we wanted to check it out.  We had a great time and they are really fired up about the...

Vista beta 2 up and running on the TC1100

This afternoon – whilst on conference calls – I cloned my old 40GB disk onto a new 100GB one and installed Vista beta 2 on my TC1100. The experience seems significantly improved compared to my previous attempts.  I had to install the XP versions of button driver and Q menu to get...

Blackpools sea wall – a poor mans rock pool

Blackpool’s new promenade has a huge sea wall which is made up of hollow interlocking hexagonal concrete blocks – sounds horrible – but in fact these blocks make up a huge geometric pattern which looks quite good from the beach.  Even better sea weed, barnicles and other sea creatures have...

Blackpool promenade art

About half of Blackpool’s promenade (about 2KM) has now been regenerated and although it’s dominated by concrete it still provides great views of the beach and the sea and also has a lovely smooth surface which is ideal for cycling.  It also has some amazing art work all long its...