Although I work from home and tend to be always connected to the Internet, I still find that I really like to use products that allow me to work off-line. Not only is the performance often better, but it’s more reliable and I still spend a couple of hours a...
I am a real fan of Windows PowerShell, not least because of the quality of the team who have worked on it and I have blogged about it a few times before. I was disappointed that it’s not pervasive in Vista although I know all about the need to make...
Microsoft’s Knowledge network looks interesting, it uses a client side component to gather information from your PC including email authors and recipients, Outlook contacts, IM contacts, manager (as defined in Active Directory), managers direct reports and your direct reports and SharePoint 2007 colleagues and it also analyses email subject and body text...
I would love to grow more of my own food, but I need a larger greenhouse and a lot more time. Still for now at least I can content myself with a bowl of strawberries every night throughout the summer!
I don’t like having the room light on while working at my PC, so this idea on Lifehacker gave me the kick I needed to come up with a cheap way to backlight my monitors and it works really well. Behind my displays I have a 30W 1 Meter fluorescent light fitting which kicks...
I have just discovered the chief happiness officer blog, which focused on happiness at work and I think it’s great. Just this morning I was talking to Graham on the phone while out walking (I had nothing better to do, Graham was late for a meeting!) and I was saying how...
I do a lot of Microsoft watching, and its pretty difficult to get a good overall impression of what’s going on in the company. I have just discovered that all of the briefing sessions from the Microsoft Financial Analysis meeting are now available as online webcasts, even better they also...
Collaboration is a key competency for today’s enterprises and yet despite the fact that the Internet is awash with a myriad of different collaboration solutions many teams still struggle to be effective and most projects continue to fail by at least one metric. Many people assume that collaboration comes naturally...
National Semiconductor recently decided to give all of their employees an iPod, according to their press release: Our employees were vital contributors to our most successful year in National’s 47-year history, and we wanted to equip them with the tools to help us create more value for our customers This...
Ismael Ghalimi is no ordinary user, and this is made clear when he describes how he build a new web site for his company, and this is definitely not a simple site! He starts off by defining criteria: No client application other than a web browser Collaborative content development &...