I have just come across a post by Eric Mack describing a customer who was considering scrapping Lotus Notes, it didn’t take long for Eric to help them realise just how much value Notes was and could deliver to them. I told them that I thought they should switch away...
Microsoft are right to be concerned about the fact that their customers uses perhaps only 20% of the capabilities of their products and their bold move – to radically change the UI – was definitely needed. I have found myself making great use of the new formatting capabilities in Excel...
Dave Pollard provides a great review of Writely for collaborative editing, it’s especially useful because he includes a sample document that was edited by a group of people with no real familiarity with the tool. It demonstrates to me that whilst Writely might have a useful role as an embedded web...
One of my most popular posts was a mind map that attempted to capture the main themes of Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind. Presentation Zen has a great post which applies the themes in the book to presentations and it’s well worth a read. I particularly liked one of the...
Ron Oglesby has written an interesting article on the Brian Madden blog about the future of Virtualization, I highly recommend that you read all the comments as well. One of the points raised in the comments concerns the over use of the Virtualization word, which I fully agree with, it...
Yesterday I wrote a post that touched on my frustration with web based team collaboration spaces, lots of people agree and some even got around to commenting which is not that common on my blog! My experience is that many people find collaborative spaces difficult because: They require an additional...
OneNote 2003 already has one of the most comprehensive implementations of “flags” that I have seen in any software, and it’s getting even better in OneNote 2007, this post gives some details. It’s worth reading for three reasons: If you use OnNote you can learn a lot If you are...
Microsoft needs to work extra hard to win over members of the Open Source community and their Open Source Software Lab is at the forefront of that work. One of their recent proposals is to effectively open up their entire research plan to peer review to make sure that they...
Ripening tomatoes, hopefully saved from blight #digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
A typical weekly harvest for friends and family #digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
Pulling potatoes #digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
Two seed potatoes make 7lb of baking potatoes, not bad for early July #digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
Summer salads, with shop bought tomatoes:-( #digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
Harvests picking up nicely now #digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
The summer harvests are a daily delight now, won’t be long before we have a glut! #Digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
First harvest of the early French beans, running a few weeks later than last year, but we’ve had plenty of peas to fill the gap #digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
Almost finished with last years carrots, this years are ready now, so we are in carrot abundance season! #Digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
Debbie harvested the last of the early onions yesterday, this is 1/3 of them. Should keep us going until August! #Digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
Harvest volumes dip a little in June as 3/4 of the allotment is winter and late summer fruit and veg and the kitchen garden is only just coming into full production #digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife
Prefect salads today, with local grown but purchased tomatoes #digforvictory #selfsufficient #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #allotment #allotmentlife