I recently found out that my company is paying roughly $6000/year per person for a desk at one of our regional offices, in one of the cheapest areas of the UK. I was a bit surprised although on reflection I am sure its typical. What really amazed me is that...
When my Arthritis is flaring I really struggle to concentrate, I have tried a wide range of things to improve it including: Meditation Exercise Work Variety Stimulating work locations Music A couple of supplements that were recommended in “Making a good brain great“ I have made some progress, but not...
I have been running Vista RTM on my TC1100 since Sunday and it has been working very well, I had one issue with the Smart Fetch process stopping, but this would have been transparent to me if Vista hadn’t brought it to my attention. A lot of drivers are downloaded...
I have been running Vista Ultimate RTM on my aging Thinkpad T40 and its running reasonably well, although it’s my third machine (After my Desktop and Tablet) so I am not a demanding user. I had to do a bare metal install though as I didn’t have enough disk space...
Last night I tried to upgrade from Office 2007 tech refresh, to Office 2007 RTM and received the following error: Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): The 2007 Microsoft Office system does not support upgrading from a prerelease version of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. You...
I have recently been thinking a bit about Enterprise RSS and getting frustrated by key features that seem to be missing, confusing or partially implemented, two examples being: Lack of unread status syncing between multiple clients of the Windows Common Feed Store Lack of support for basic authentication in the Windows...
Standards Blog provides some useful information on the Workplace Office client. The context is a series of articles looking at various ODF clients of which Workplace Managed Client is one. I’m pleased to see that IBM are now picking up speed in their attempts to engage with their community through...
For me telecommuting means I am able to work, so it’s wonderful and liberating. I do miss the office though and the sort of team dynamics that develops only when you work with people day in day out for years. For anyone contemplating teleworking I have only a little advise:...
Microsoft reveal a lot of useful info about terminal services improvements in Longhorn in this chat, I can see myself making a lot of use of this on my lab servers at home as well as for customers: Application Publishing with client-side file type associations Seamless Windows A Terminal Server...
Just by chance I came across a vision document for the Chandler open source Personal Information Management (PIM) client application which has a very innovative design and ambitious plans for sharing, extensibility and cross-platform support. Even if you have no interest in Chandler as a product I recommend you have...