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What Use is Google Wave?
Twitter: #googlewave #TiGra #electricdreams Now that Google Wave is out of beta and open to all, I’m seeing a lot of comments in the Twitterverse along the lines of ‘So what? What are you supposed to do with it?’ Google has a few ideas of their own, as...
All of Me
Having a bit of fun with my guitar, my computer and Audacity today. Here’s what I came up with. It’s very tongue-in-cheek, enjoy! Share this post: | | |
I’m a Weather Geek
Recently I’ve installed a new weather station on top of my house. I’ve done it partly because my inner geek wants to know everything about everything, partly because I need it for some software development I’m doing . I’ve always suspected that the weather...
Microsoft Invents Time Travel
You heard it here first. Dr. Who eat your heart out. Every night around midnight, for a few seconds, Outlook 2010 lets me see into the future. Here’s the proof: Share this post: | | |
The Cloud is a Thunder Storm
The gloves are off between Google and Microsoft, with Google announcing availability of a tool to migrate from Exchange Server to Google Apps. The problem is, Google Apps is a ‘cloud service’. Lately, I’ve been badly let down by some cloud services, so...
Digital Economy Bill: Strangling Creativity #debill
Labour’s Digital Economy bill is strangling creativity and criminalizing internet users. They don’t understand the new digital ecosystem and they don’t understand that the game is changing; has already changed. Quoting Tom Beardshaw : In the most ludicrous...
ASP.NET MVC Quickly
Book Review ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly Maarten Balliauw Packt Publishing I set out to learn ASP.NET MVC with this book with some trepidation, as the preview release of ASP.NET 2.0 was already available. My concern was that the book would be out of date....
Why I Advise My Customers To Steer Clear of BT Broadband
We use BE Unlimited as our broadband provider of choice. They are faster and cheaper than most of the competition and I’ve been blown away by the quality and helpfulness of their customer service. We live in semi-rural Wales, yet we get 24Mbps downstream...
Adobe Flash is Dead
This is my prediction. I would not be betting my business on Adobe Flash right now. A number of factors are conspiring to kill Flash at the moment. There's some background by Scobleizer . According to Robert Scoble, "developers [...] are no longer...
Rarefied Chronon Conspiracy
Moore’s Law is a fiction invented by Intel. They put those little ‘heat sinks’ on top of processors, but actually they’re not heat sinks. Intel has been fooling us; processors aren’t actually getting faster. Those ‘heat sinks’ are actually little chronon...
Just a Minute
On my journey to and from the office yesterday, I had my Zune with me and I was listening to one of may favourite podcasts, Hanselminutes by Scott Hanselman . Scott is a technologist and web developer working for Microsoft, he is one of the ‘gang of four...
Microsoft Kills Essential Business Server
In a surprise announcement today, Nick King (Senior Product Manager - Windows Essential Business Server) revealed that Microsoft is to withdraw Windows Essential Business Server from the product range. In a conference call with Small Business Server MVPs...
Slimy Free Software
I’ve written several times on why I think free software is harmful ( Open Source or Microsoft ; The Zen of Free ; Free Software: Good vs. Evil ?). The unfortunate precedent of giving things away for free on the Internet can result in a race to the bottom...
Blogging with Windows Live Writer
On Monday 21st February, I’m giving a live demo to some local entrepreneurs and academics to show how, for me, Windows Live Writer has revolutionised blogging. Some of the topics I’ll cover and expand upon during the demo are: My Approach to Blogging...
The Virtual Revolution
Have you been following this fascinating series on BBC 2? It examines some of the social and cultural repercussions of one of mankind’s greatest achievements – and it’s not all good! Today, I find it quite impossible to imagine life without The Internet...
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