Author: Steve Richards

Capernwray bible college

Last Sunday we went to an open day at Capernwray bible college, the older girls were really keen on going for one of the week long holidays over the summer and we wanted to check it out.  We had a great time and they are really fired up about the...

Vista beta 2 up and running on the TC1100

This afternoon – whilst on conference calls – I cloned my old 40GB disk onto a new 100GB one and installed Vista beta 2 on my TC1100. The experience seems significantly improved compared to my previous attempts.  I had to install the XP versions of button driver and Q menu to get...

Blackpools sea wall – a poor mans rock pool

Blackpool’s new promenade has a huge sea wall which is made up of hollow interlocking hexagonal concrete blocks – sounds horrible – but in fact these blocks make up a huge geometric pattern which looks quite good from the beach.  Even better sea weed, barnicles and other sea creatures have...

Blackpool promenade art

About half of Blackpool’s promenade (about 2KM) has now been regenerated and although it’s dominated by concrete it still provides great views of the beach and the sea and also has a lovely smooth surface which is ideal for cycling.  It also has some amazing art work all long its...

Just down the road from Blackpool

I live in a small town just down the road from Blackpool.  When I first moved here the image of Blackpool I had assured me that I would never visit it,  but over the years I have gradually mellowed and now find that like almost everywhere Blackpool has a plus...

The SameTime 7.5 experience

This is exactly the sort of post I want to see from IBM.  A pretty thorough description of the features of Sametime with some good comments on how they enhance the user experience.  What’s wrong with it though – its not a blog post, so there are no comment –  come...

Ed Brill on the Microsoft FUD campaign again

I don’t really like the endless Microsoft bashing that comes out of IBM, not because it’s not justified – it is – but because I want to hear about why IBM products are great,  and I want to hear that from passionate users and to a large extent I don’t...

More on file systems, how I work now

I now work on the Internet, which means that the only networked file systems I have access to are on my home network.  I still use them extensively for file storage but I no longer have a simple way to share the files with others, either was work in progress...

Is the file server dead?

Graham thinks the file server is dead,  I’m not totally convinced – here’s why before anyone starts complaining,  the following lists are not intended to be complete, only illustrative,  please add additional items via comments if you are so motivated. pretty much every application supports storing it’s file based data...