This afternoon – whilst on conference calls – I cloned my old 40GB disk onto a new 100GB one and installed Vista beta 2 on my TC1100. The experience seems significantly improved compared to my previous attempts. I had to install the XP versions of button driver and Q menu to get...
Blackpool’s new promenade has a huge sea wall which is made up of hollow interlocking hexagonal concrete blocks – sounds horrible – but in fact these blocks make up a huge geometric pattern which looks quite good from the beach. Even better sea weed, barnicles and other sea creatures have...
About half of Blackpool’s promenade (about 2KM) has now been regenerated and although it’s dominated by concrete it still provides great views of the beach and the sea and also has a lovely smooth surface which is ideal for cycling. It also has some amazing art work all long its...
I live in a small town just down the road from Blackpool. When I first moved here the image of Blackpool I had assured me that I would never visit it, but over the years I have gradually mellowed and now find that like almost everywhere Blackpool has a plus...
This is exactly the sort of post I want to see from IBM. A pretty thorough description of the features of Sametime with some good comments on how they enhance the user experience. What’s wrong with it though – its not a blog post, so there are no comment – come...
I don’t really like the endless Microsoft bashing that comes out of IBM, not because it’s not justified – it is – but because I want to hear about why IBM products are great, and I want to hear that from passionate users and to a large extent I don’t...
I now work on the Internet, which means that the only networked file systems I have access to are on my home network. I still use them extensively for file storage but I no longer have a simple way to share the files with others, either was work in progress...
When I worked on a LAN my team used file systems extensively and we had a very effective working practice, as follows: We all had laptops We all stored our master data on our laptops We all stored our published files on a collaboration server The work in progress (WIP) area on...
Graham thinks the file server is dead, I’m not totally convinced – here’s why before anyone starts complaining, the following lists are not intended to be complete, only illustrative, please add additional items via comments if you are so motivated. pretty much every application supports storing it’s file based data...
I love technology, but increasingly I find myself trying to find simple solutions and I find myself in good company. Several friends have gone back to paper notebooks, some are using index cards or simple Excel spreadsheets to manage their tasks. Here are a few of the things I have...