Walking back from Lytham – listening to excellent podcasts from IBM Investor relations on the "future of" cities, the home, work, TV etc # Worried because Debbie just rang to say that we have had a large unauthorised withdrawl from our bank account using her card # On my way...
Scott describes his home office in great detail in this post. I’m a little jealous because he has his own space (I have to share mine with my Wife and she’s not very tidy!) but we have a similar setup, although Scott has even more monitors than I do!. If...
I’m a big fan of Camtasia products, both Studio and SnagIt, so I’m delighted to see that older versions are now available for free (for PC Plus users in theory). Camtasia Studio is for screen recording and SnagIt is probably the best screen capture utility around. Provided you don’t run...
For a long time now I’ve watched Jeffrey Snover and admired his passion, Graham noticed as well and linked to this short video that explains some of what motivates Jeffrey. As Graham points out the all important ingredient is that Jeffrey really believes that PowerShell is going to improve the...
I had a good laugh at this article in Wired where Seth describes how the search for increased productivity can easily become a goal in itself, in fact dwarfing actually doing real work. This snip tells it all: When my fiance came home from work each evening, we’d ask each...
I’m a user of Web 2.0 applications and on the whole I find them great. However although I know almost nothing about the current technologies involved used in their development, although I’ve become increasingly nervous about their complexity. Then I listened to a very scary talk by Rasmus Lerdorf who...
Its clear that Microsoft spent too long on Office 2007 fighting its historical desktop rivals through the introduction of a new user interface, file format, programming model. These platform investments provided some user benefits but most importantly wrong footed competitors who had previously concentrated on cloning (which is a lot...