I am a big advocate of well designed workplaces, so I was interested to see this post about the Workplace Advantage activity at Microsoft. One of my favorite principles is to provide a flexible environment that the teams can change easily to suit their evolving needs and I have written...
Brian Madden describes how Citrix is evolving from being an Access company to an Application Delivery company: We want to be the single company to provide access to all applications, regardless of what type they are. For Windows client/server applications, you can use Citrix Presentation Server. For web applications, you...
I am using Excel 2007 full time now and I really like the in cell graphics and easy to use conditional formatting, I have never been a power user of Excel and it’s taken the discoverability of the ribbon based interface to help me improve in this area. I have...
I have long held the belief that successful collaboration is not so much about getting fancy technology and much more about process, culture and careful deployment and use of the technologies you do have. I was therefore pleased to see the results of a survey on collaboration that S. Ann...
Yesterday I was talking to Debbie about the sort of house we would like in the future and we concluded that we would like a house that was largely independent of external power and ideally water. This would obviously have low running costs, but would also isolate us from changes...
Although Graham is not impressed, there is one thing I really like about Live Writer that for the moment will keep me using it and that is it’s management of posts. I really like the idea of having my posts automatically saved for me – in a subfolder under my...
This is my first second test post with Windows Live Writer, it did not started off well, first I got an “Internal Server Error” returned from blogharbor, which Live Writer said needed to be corrected, on the second attempt it worked but I was told that a style sheet could...
I have been meditating twice a day now for just over 3 years and it now plays a major part in my life, initialy I started to meditate just to help me manage the constant pain I am in, but as the years went by I realised that it has...
A few weeks ago I had a planning session with Microsoft where we discussed requirements for the version of windows to follow Vista. During that meeting I used newsgator as an example of my ideal service, it embodies in principle – and increasingly in execution – all that I see...