Daily Archive: August 23, 2006

Home grown

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!

Backlight your PC

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...

The Chief Happiness Officer

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...

Excellent Microsoft briefings available

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...