Monthly Archive: November 2007

Protected twitter

As I wrote the post below I felt uneasy with it,  a few minutes later I realised that if I was happy with my twitter feed being in Public on my blog, why bother to protect it within Twitter itself.  So I have changed back to an unprotected feed. What...

Application delivery

I’m currently doing lots of work on application delivery, reviewing the whole space and trying to map all of the different solutions to their associated business use cases and come up with decision support materials to guide customers through the maze and prioritise our investments. What does the maze look...

When to Vista

I’m running Vista on my Desktop and Tablet and will be running Windows 2008 Server on my lab soon.  My wife and 3 of the girls are running XP and my eldest daughter is running Windows 2003 Server on their laptops so I feel a bit like a small business! ...

20,000 laws for data

In a thought provoking post Mark points out: There are now more than 20,000 laws world-wide that regulate how companies must protect, retain, and secure information. These laws are often complicated, and sometimes even contradictory. These rules often must be applied to all data types regardless of the application. In...

Help concentrating

Since I started suffering from Stills Disease about 6 years ago and more specifically since I spent a couple of years on Steroids to combat it, my concentration has degraded really badly.  I can measure the degradation quantitatively and it’s pretty significant, although it does vary from day to day.  ...

Young people can’t handle interrupts!

According to research commissioned by the Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity undertaken by Oxford university young people actually don’t handle interrupts very well.  In fact older people cope better because of the benefits of a mature brain with many more synaptic connections.  The researchers quantified the impact of interruptions...

Establishing a community

I’m currently working hard trying to establish a community within CSC.  It’s a technical community with stakeholders from all over the company, with lots of different perspectives and drivers.  Whilst at the top level we all share business success objectives, scratch below the surface and many diverse objectives (and inconsistent)...

OnSpeed – a must have for 3G/GPRS users

While I was at my in-laws this weekend I didn’t have broadband so I installed OnSpeed to improve performance of my GPRS connection.  I have been pretty impressed, here are the main advantages: For me OnSpeed seems to compress data by an average of 3-4 times, of course OnSpeed claims...

Why email attachments?

It seems that everyone now days wants to eliminate the poor old email attachment, and yet people still cling to this tried and trusted way of passing around files.  For example Adam recently posted: Several people we’re not happy that in Notes 8.0, the ability to instantly email an attachment...

Getting Projects Completed!

I try to focus on competing a few big things a week as I explained in this post.  However partly because completion if difficult to define in my world and party because I have a lot of distractions completion doesn’t come easy.  Scott provides a much needed critique of systems...