Over the Christmas holiday I boarded out the loft and insulated the rafters. We now have a great space up in the loft, but unfortunately it’s already full with all the stuff we’ve accumulated. I’ve got to the point now where I really hate “stuff”. About 10 years ago we...
I’m currently working on our Mobile working strategy and by chance I happened to be reading Hominids which has a wonderful description of a mobile Companion device and sensors. The concept of use was pretty inspirational and reminded me of the even more futuristic vision of “Jane” in the Ender...
Everyone knows I love multiple monitors, I have 3 * 19″ all the same model and type and all cheap ones that are just fine for my simple needs (ie not Gaming). Here are a few things I’ve learned in the 3 years I’ve used them: A laptop – single...
Check out the wiki and help spread the word about “The Enterprise RSS Day of Action”. This seems like a great way to create some buzz around the concept of Enterprise RSS, gather some useful information and get people together. The wiki has more details, but this is a key...
I’ve been experimenting with desktop video conferencing for years, but my enthusiasm never persists for more than a few days because the experience is just too unpredictable. Sometimes it’s a image quality issue, sometimes it’s firewalls, right now it’s unstable drivers and poor lip synch. It’s not far away though,...
VDI is a pretty cool for a whole host of use cases, but what we really need is a single infrastructure for virtual and physical PCs. We are nearly there: Citrix provisioning server can stream a base operating system to virtual and physical PCs Application virtualization and streaming can stream...
I’ve long known that a significant number of projects fail and that even more don’t succeed and I’ve read plenty of books that try to dig into why. Oft cited are poor requirements, poor customer engagement etc but I liked this snipit that seems to sum up my experience: The...
I long thought that Microsoft should have focussed more on making Windows the best possible platform for the delivery of applications, regardless of whether they were developed on the Microsoft platform or not. That’s what enterprises want, we think of the desktop largely as a way to get applications to...
I’m always loosing my Blackberry, but fortunately I always manage to find it, normally by ringing it up. But I always worry that I will leave it on silent or it will be too far away to find by ear. Anyway there’s a solution it’s called berry locator, check it...
I went swimming with Tess and Anna tonight and given that I’m not too well I only swam for 30 lengths, which left plenty of time to sit by the pool, watching the girls and reading New Scientist. Of the articles I read I was most amazed by this description...