Monthly Archive: May 2006

Just down the road from Blackpool

I live in a small town just down the road from Blackpool.  When I first moved here the image of Blackpool I had assured me that I would never visit it,  but over the years I have gradually mellowed and now find that like almost everywhere Blackpool has a plus...

The SameTime 7.5 experience

This is exactly the sort of post I want to see from IBM.  A pretty thorough description of the features of Sametime with some good comments on how they enhance the user experience.  What’s wrong with it though – its not a blog post, so there are no comment –  come...

Ed Brill on the Microsoft FUD campaign again

I don’t really like the endless Microsoft bashing that comes out of IBM, not because it’s not justified – it is – but because I want to hear about why IBM products are great,  and I want to hear that from passionate users and to a large extent I don’t...

More on file systems, how I work now

I now work on the Internet, which means that the only networked file systems I have access to are on my home network.  I still use them extensively for file storage but I no longer have a simple way to share the files with others, either was work in progress...

Is the file server dead?

Graham thinks the file server is dead,  I’m not totally convinced – here’s why before anyone starts complaining,  the following lists are not intended to be complete, only illustrative,  please add additional items via comments if you are so motivated. pretty much every application supports storing it’s file based data...

Keeping it simple

I love technology,  but increasingly I find myself trying to find simple solutions and I find myself in good company.  Several friends have gone back to paper notebooks,  some are using index cards or simple Excel spreadsheets to manage their tasks.  Here are a few of the things I have...

I now have a lifestyle blog

This blog is really my professional interests blog,  but I now have a lifestyle blog as well which you can find under the Seaside life category.  The articles from that category don’t filter up to this home page though so if you want to track them then you need to...

Favourite places – Boaters Landing cafe

I spend a lot of my time working in Cafe’s.  Once or twice a week I find myself at Boaters Landing.  I tend to get to Boaters at about 9:30 and unpack my Tablet PC and work there for an hour whilst having my breakfast.  I know all of the...

Activity is the order of the day

I have always lived a pretty active life,  never for example having any interest in a spectator sport.  Now with 4 kids and Arthritis I find it’s even more important to keep active and living by the sea gives me a great excuse.  We all have bikes of course but we...