I used to love my Blackberry – but this looks like a dream. The new Seimens SK65. Full blackberry functionality with a really innovative format, tri-band. Hopefully it has a decent task manager! For more details check out this web site.
If you ever visit Blackpool ….
We live 5 miles down the road from Blackpool, which is not one of my favourite places. However on a quiet day its not a bad location for shopping, its got a great beach and the promendae walk is excellent. On a busy day, (never go on a Bank Holiday!), its full of drunken louts and is best avoided. That said it has some great entertainment my favoutrite of which are the yearly shows, and the best of these is eclipse, a combination of Music, Dance and Acrobatic circus. It really is worth a visit.
Here is the marketting buzz:
Eclipse is the first and only circus musical created in the UK. This unique show is pure theatre. From booking your seats your journey through the elements and a fantasy of our world class performers will leave you truly amazed as they perform elegant and death-defying feats before your very eyes.
With the ultimate in choreography we dare you to see the whole show in one visit. All the special effects in this show have been created especially for you – so you will have a dream come true and a memory forever.
ECLIPSE – …
eWeek reports that Wyse, (a long term user of Windows embedded technologies), is now moving into Linux in a bigway. “Linux has really grown, and has become 20 percent of the worldwide thin-client marketplace,” What actually suprised me was that the market share was so low, given that Linux seems...
This article describes some of the characteristics of XML that make it so powerful The bottom line is that its generic nature means that generic solutions can be created tat can be applied to all manner of different problems. The example quoted is a tool that compares two XML files, produces an XML file showing the differences. The article then goes on to explain how this generic tool might be applied to different types of problem. Well worth a read if you are trying to get your mind around some of the things that will be possible in the future. Reminds me a bit of Unix pipes!
Jonathan Schwartz, provides a very interesting perspective on the pickle that IBM have got themselves into over Linux. Whats even more interesting is that he does not discuss Sun’s simillar predicament! Maybe thats because his series of blogs on this and related topics is building up the background for Sun’s position which is likely to see a return to the promotion of Solaris as a viable alternative to Redhat which is gradually being positioned by Jonathan as a kid of “proprietary solution”, certainly one that locks you into RedHat.
Update: I am not the only one who is puzzling over what Jonathan is up to with his blog. Look at this eWeek article that pulls lots of opinion together, it appears Jonathan is playing a pretty risky game.
AOSD Update.
In my last update I was fairly up beat, my pain had declined a lot and I was feeling pretty positive in myself. I was getting lots of exercise, sleeping ok, and coping well with the fatigue. However just after that update I got a chest infection, this is what happened:
Jenny, my second eldest, just completed her first week at Drama Summer School. She was part of a great performance of Blood Brothers one of my favourite musicals. Jenny had quite a few small parts and did very well although she did get rather over-heated as she was wearing two outfits for the whole performance. The cast overall were great and there is some real talent in the little group.
We get to see probably 4 performances a year by this youth group and we are really getting to know the actors quite well now, its a special plus looking forward to seeing the best of them develop and trying to spot some of the talent that we are going to enjoy in the years to come. I was also lucky enough to get to see the individual talent show last Thursday, some of the group shows were very funny, and one of the singers was amazing, she certainly had no problems with projection!
Stephie my eldest is at the school this week, doing the rather more academic Richard III, which she is enjoying, she has spent 3 weeks researching it on the web and creating a project folder …
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These video’s are pretty good examples of some of Microsoft’s integrated innovation ideas. Illustrated by the connected car concept
Although not strictly contradictory, it makes for a nice title. This article is about one of Microsoft’s reactions to Open Source and one way in which it is delivering on its “integrated innovation”, marketing strategy.
The basic concept is that Microsoft takes a collection of their products, and applies them to the solution of a particular business need. They publish for free standard architectures, processes, templates etc. You can populate these architectures with some products of your own choice. In a way whilst this is not Open Source it’s a sort of Open Solution.
The concept is quite interesting to me because one of the challenges with Open Source software, due in the main to the way it is created, is how to build a coherent solution from the many different components, without some over-arching architectural vision. Where does this vision get created in the current Open Source development model? It happens within IBM, Red-hat and Novel etc and it probably happens in a proprietary way. Even if all of the source for the components in the architecture are Open, the architecture itself is likely to evolve in …