Monday, January 31, 2005

Things to say when you are losing a tech argument

Two ways to use this article -

See who has used these statements (+1) or had them used against them (-1) the most - Highest Score Wins!

Take this sheet into a project meeting and play Geek Bingo.
So you want to be a consultant...?

Read this article first.

Sunday, January 30, 2005

Well, the Episode Three parodies have started.

I really like the guy playing the Anakin character. He has perfected the really bad acting.

Saturday, January 29, 2005

Sometime you come across a cool thing that just sounds really great. This clock-radio is one of those things.

I like the wireless snooze function is brilliant but I am unsure if many blokes sleep with teddybears.

Friday, January 28, 2005

Hey, let's laugh at idiot businessmen!

101 Dumbest Moments in Business gives us a good opportunity to laugh at the people who own the US presidency.

This what happens when a submarine runs aground.
Take a great publisher and a great browser, put them together and what do you get?

A brilliant book on the Best Browser available.
Software and electronic mediaVending Machines, You have got to love the japanese.

Although, I would say that internet downloading is a perfectly fine delivery system.
What are you going to do with yourself for four years?

How about building your own Apollo Guidance Computer in your basement?

Plans and project files are available on the site - for anybody who wants their own AGC.

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

I love the guys at engadget. Torrone does a brilliant podcast and they have the newest information on latest stuff, I will blow my pay cheque on.

But their latest howto on turning a Mac mini into a media center is something that I will use.

- After reviewing the comments, maybe I will continue to look at building a MythTV or Freevo PVR with a Shuttle-esque box.
Google Video Search appears to be a great service, but I wonder how this will develop?

It seems that whatever google does is amplified by the others, who use the search power of this group and present it in a new form.

This could be another Google news.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

My camera is in the shop.

So, there is a dearth of photographs on the blog. This happened just as I signed up for Flickr, which seems to be a great service and much better way of getting photos into this blog.

So, I chucked a couple Christmas photos up.
My camera is in the shop.

So, there is a dearth of photographs on the blog. This happened just as I signed up for Flickr, which seems to be a great service and much better way of getting photos into this blog.

So, I chucked a couple Christmas photos up.
Unusual articles in Wikipedia is always a good source of entertainment. From the Largest photograph to the smallest park, there is something well researched for everyone.

Guinness - eat your heart out.
Get your GMail tips here.

Great site for the Missing Gmail Manual.

Thursday, January 06, 2005

Time to get the new January wallpaper from Ordnance Survey.

I kept November on through last month since I thought December's offering was crap. But with a New Year it is time for a change.

Monday, January 03, 2005

A good start for the New Year.

A New Year rant.

This is just a quick one for the folks at Novell. They have taken some brave decisions in the past year and it they have started a process which is going to completely change their business.

However, despite the fact that several parts of the company have changed not all of the departments have adopted this new attitude, mainly the folks who send out the disks.

Novell are currently the large player in an environment dominated by small startups invigorated by the open source marketplace. Novell need to step-up to the challenge and undergo a change in attitude if they are going to compete in this arena.

Basic to this is getting your product out to those who will use it. That is not happening.

I defended Novell before when people were commenting on their failure to deliver disks for the Novell Nterprise Linux Services Evaluation Kit.

But now it is becoming increasingly difficult to get the Novell Linux Desktop. We went to the trouble of ordering two disks from a supplier to be told that these disks had to be sold in batches of twelve. Getting the media has also been a troublesome task, and finally the downloads seem to constantly fail and deliver bad images. The last I would blame on my connection or download agent except that this seems consistent with several organistaions I have talked to.

So Novell, get your act together. Figure out what you want to be.

If you are going to be an Open Source Company – then start acting like one.

Sunday, January 02, 2005

Is it comedy or tragedy when items marked DO NOT CIRCULATE are visible to the world.