I am a big fan of the quick conditional formats in Excel, but I get very frustrated by the in cell bar graphs and their strange behavior – basically this means they are very unreliable as a way to visualize the real relationship between numbers in a range. They are...
I have been worrying for a long time about how to improve the benefits delivery from investments in desktop, office and collaborative systems and it’s always bothered me how little attention Microsoft has invested in the problem until now! They have come up with a tool called the Enterprise Learning Framework,...
Over the last few years I have paid a lot of attention to improving my happiness at work and it’s certainly paid off. But more interesting has been the impact on my professional activities. I work mainly in vision and strategy for a large systems integrator, my focus is on...
Brian Badden has made available a huge range of presentations and videos from his BriForum events in 2006. He plans to make the sessions from 2005 available soon and right now you can also order the 2007 sessions on DVD. However many of the 2006 sessions will still be very...
I really like this idea by Alan Lepofsky, he’s asking his readers to share things that they need to get done during their normal working days. There’s no mega business processes here, just the simple stuff that fills most of our time and is often still poorly optimised despite much...
I find that I am increasingly wanting to save and view flash files. Maxthon has a plug-in for this but its not that great and when my eldest daughter came to me last night and said she wanted to save a great flash animation of hurricane damage I really struggled...
I am a bit nervous about VMware on Vista right now and concerned about the upgrade costs to move from 5.5 to 6. So for now I am leaving VMware on my servers. For my clients I have installed Virtual PC 2007 and have been pleasently surprised by the following:...
I may be stange but I scan all of my feeds online and then read a small subset – generall about 20-30 a day offline. I do the scanning while watching TV on my laptop and the reading on my Tablet. I scan the feeds in FeedDemon and then read...
A post on the SharePoint blog on the potential for SharePoint to replace file servers has stimulated a good debate. I replied to it here and Joel (the original author) replied to me here (thanks for taking the time and effort Joel!). Initially I was left feeling less than convinced that...
I have been reviewing a friends presentation for a few days, its content is complex and very interesting, the slides have a lot of information and he has included extensive speaker notes. However I have struggled to follow the story he is trying to tell and come up with a memorable takeaway from...