Archive for January, 2010
A comment in Doc Searl’s recent iPad post got me wondering whether the iPad market is really the n00bs, the people who have yet to enter the computer market. All those users who want simplicity. They just want something that provides access to the internet, e-mail, perhaps basic letter writing, their photos and some music, [ READ MORE ]
So it’s here, the latest Apple offering is, as many, many pundits predicted, a tablet. Watching the launch I confess to being underwhelmed by the technical specification. It is, frankly, rather dull. However… So too was the original iPhone. Remember the original iPhone 1.o? An object of design desire no doubt, but otherwise rather dull, [ READ MORE ]
It is immensely troublesome when your sleep pattern becomes disturbed. As anyone who suffers such a discomfort will tell you it has a knock on effect. Your mood changes and your ability to focus attention on a task in hand is compromised. It is in this condition that I found myself over the past few [ READ MORE ]
This is the single most feeble minded position offered in defense of intrusions in people’s private lives. Consider the UK governments obsession with spying on, indexing and cataloging their citizens. Often proponents of things like the DNA database, identity cards and consolidated cross department data sharing trot out the ‘if you’re innocent you have nothing [ READ MORE ]
Why do so many people treat the act of giving to good causes, such as (in my opinion), the RedCross, MSF, Oxfam, CharityWater among many others, as something to be done in response to a disaster such as the Haitian earthquake? Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s terrific that people do give and the Haitians [ READ MORE ]
BumpTop is a nice piece of eye-candy that extends your Windows (and now Mac) desktop into a three dimensional representation of a desktop. Documents on your desktop have ‘physical’ presence. They can be tossed around, stacked into piles, pinned to the walls, resized and previewed, all with a few mouse clicks or multi-touch gestures. It’s [ READ MORE ]
I have a suspicion that politicians, some of them at least, well, a few – there must be a few – actually do some good in the world. Watching, reading and listening to the news media and the appalling bollocks that politicians spew forth gives pause for thought though. Also, having worked with people who [ READ MORE ]
… are the new bane of my life. Mercifully I only have to contend with them twice a week; Monday and Friday. But when I am heading home on Friday evening it is frustrating to be held to fifty miles per hour on roads that normal whisk me along at seventy. Add to this the [ READ MORE ]
*Sigh* After a year of minimal car use I am now, once again, dependent on my car. So of course it decides to develop a fault. Driving the 3.7 miles from my hotel to the client’s site this morning the battery warning light lit up and stayed on. Since my car is best, and generously, [ READ MORE ]
Back on the work treadmill that is. Starting a new contract is always interesting. After all you get to learn about a new way of working (no two organisations are alike) and see other peoples efforts to solve problems that almost all organisations face at one time or another. The length of time required for [ READ MORE ]
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