Better nights sleep last night, now checking wiki updates from last night and emails # Writing a proposal on how we could spent $20K of free Microsoft consultancy for work on Vista before the end of the year # Chilling out reading feeds at Boaters landing Cafe – again! –...
I’m not much of a server guy, but this announcement from Platespin appealed to me, a server appliance for real-time backup: Once plugged and configured the system performs live backup of up to 25 physical or virtual servers on continuous basis (incremental backup). If something bad happens the administrator is...
This article has a good comment thread on this topic. In my case I don’t really have an option I work offline too often and when I’m online I only have a GPRS connection so its desktop email and Blackberry email for me.
Strange though it might seem I think handling of audio is one of the weakest features of every SmartPhone I have ever had. These are some of the things I want to do: Listen to music or Podcasts, with automatic bookmarking so I don’t loose my place. While listening I...
Bad nights sleep again, just draggesd myself out of bed. Off for a walk after I check email # Meeting Rikki for breakfast # Working with Mark and Len on Mobility 2010 # Watching Jon Udels screencast on FeedSync http://channel9.msdn.com/media/feedsync/silverlight.html while having lunch # More work on the wiki –...
It’s really nice to see some progress at last on SSE, ie it’s implementation by Microsoft as FeedSync. Jon Udel covers it. Of course right now there are no examples of it really being used, but maybe the creation of FeedSync was needed before people would really consider it stable...
Dave Pollard has a typically excellent post contrasting Knowledge Management 1.0 (which I remember being pushed at me, but thankfully resisted) and KM 2.0 that’s been inspired by the Internet and web 2. I have two thoughts worth noting: Things that work at Internet scale don’t always translate to the...
Looks like Microsoft is finally realising that custom workspaces is one of the keys to increasing employee productivity. Rather than assuming that individual offices is the only – and best – way to work they are now moving to a building design that can evolve with the needs of the...
Having breakfast with my mum and the girls at Boaters, the weathers wonderful and I looking forward to a long walk later # Just got back from a walk into Blackpool with Mum and Tess # Powered by Twitter Tools.
A few days ago I wrote about how I saw social networking sites like Facebook complementing enterprise social sites used internally. This is a nice complement to my view. Serena software has introduced the idea of Facebook Fridays: Each Friday, employees are granted one hour of personal time to spend...