Over the past couple of years I have thought a lot about work life balance and think I have made real progress. One of the small tips I have found useful is to subscribe to a number of more positive Ezine Articles on various self improvement topics. I find it...
Brian Madden provides some useful insights into the affect of Microsoft’s intention to acquire Softricity. I for one believe this is a really big deal as it will bring virtualization technologies into the mainstream. One of the things that has held virtualization back is the fact that every enterprise has...
Jon Udell is amongst an increasing number of bloggers who don’t have comments enabled. Whilst there may be good reasons, (comment spam), I think it’s a real shame. I for one find tremendous value in reading the comments associated with posts as they often provide a broader range of perspectives...
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...
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...