I have a Kindle and an iPad, but its the Kindle that’s had the biggest impact on my life – so what’s so great about the Kindle? The Kindle is for reading, whilst the iPad is optimised for distraction. Yes it’s possible to do almost everything the Kindle does on...
This is my first post from the iPad using the word press applications, no wysiwyg formatting unfortunately, so I’m not sure what it will look like. Anyway here goes. The good — the hardware is wonderful, an excellent screen, very responsive Touch, amazing battery life, easy to clean (using a...
What made it the best? I pretty much ignored the scheduled talks and spent most of the time in one to one discussions. Some of them scheduled in advance by our great Citrix and Appsense teams, especially Chris and Alister. Some of them opportunistic scheduled with twitter followers and some...
when I got a big screen for my home office I thought I would make most use of it sat at my desk, luxuriating in all that screen real estate. Whilst I do use it that way, what’s made most difference is that I can sit on my sofa with...
On recovery days like today, the sofa in the office is my favourite place to work. Posted via email from Steve’s posterous
Steve over on the Reflexions blog try’s to answer the question Does Corporate Failure = PKM? posed by Nick Milton and I must admit I find myself agreeing with Steve, who has a few points of agreement with Nick. That is up until the point where Nick is quoted as...
Graham writes an interesting post where he compares the impact of slow login and slow applications. It’s a good analysis and leads Graham to conclude that forced to choose he would go for slow login, because it’s predictable and infrequent and so can be proactively managed (ie do something else...
Every year or so I hear Microsoft talking about Internet Search and implying that Google Search is nothing compared to what Microsoft has in store for us. Unfortunately what seems to be delivered is useful, but incremental. I heard about Wolfram Alpha today, and it the first time for years...
I’m using Postie to allow me to send an email to my wordpress blog, it works great, supports images as attachments, some formatting and categories,tags and more, it also has better security than the built in wp email support. What it doesn’t do is trigger twitter tools, so currently no...
I gave my old bike to my Mum a few weeks ago as an excuse to by another, as if even more excuse was needed though I had the opportunity to take advantage of the governments cycle to work scheme. Vince seemed to have a few issues getting a non...