Carlisle was a surprisingly fun place to visit. Debbie and the elder girls had been there last year and stayed in university diggs for a couple of days, so I too the twins to the best of the places that they recommened. We spent most of our time at Tullie...
We arrived at one of the forts at about 16:30 so didn’t have much light left. There is not much of the original wall left but the area we were going to see was about 30 minutes walk from the car park. We had a really great trek up to...
We have spent the last few days in the Lake District, we started off in Kendal, then went up to Carlisle for a couple of days and then back down to Arnside which is one of our favorite walking areas. I only took the Treo 650 so the photo’s are...
I have been using Vista for a while on my Tablet and Laptop, but my main desktop has remained on Windows 2003 server. Fortunately a kindly partner agreed to buy me a new desktop for some development work I am doing with them so I decided to get a machine...
OneNote 2003 already has one of the most comprehensive implementations of “flags” that I have seen in any software, and it’s getting even better in OneNote 2007, this post gives some details. It’s worth reading for three reasons: If you use OnNote you can learn a lot If you are...
After reading about my rebuild nightmare you are probably thinking that I would be migrating fast to web 2.0 sites. Wrong! I really like some of the web 2.0 sites and work extensively in the browser – but I like to use the best tool for the job and right now I...
VMware is not fast at the best of times, here are some basic tips to make sure its not slower than it needs to be: Make sure that AV on access scanners exclude .vmdk .vmem and probably .iso files as well Store VM’s on a separate partition, preallocate disk space...
I may be stange but I scan all of my feeds online and then read a small subset – generall about 20-30 a day offline. I do the scanning while watching TV on my laptop and the reading on my Tablet. I scan the feeds in FeedDemon and then read...
A post on the SharePoint blog on the potential for SharePoint to replace file servers has stimulated a good debate. I replied to it here and Joel (the original author) replied to me here (thanks for taking the time and effort Joel!). Initially I was left feeling less than convinced that...
A few customers have recently pointed out to me that they are going to have a significant number of early adopters of Office 2007 in advance of their migration to SharePoint 2007, this will be particularly true where SharePoint is used at an enterprise level. Previously I had assumed that...