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! ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
I just found out that the audios (and videos) of my favourite conference – POP!TECH – have all been published! The dialogue will cover a wide range of topics, from new ways of measuring humanity’s global impact and the promise of bottom-up solutions to global poverty, to the future of...
Chuck (from EMC) has a nice post on their behind the firewall experiments with social collaboration, and I particularly liked this quote: One of the ways people can work together is around a document. People contribute, edit, revise, approve and distribute documents, reports, and so on. Sure, people are interacting,...