April 2007

Blue Monster or SDN

April 28, 2007 General

The T-shirt shown on the left looks OK when worn with black trousers. The one on the right looks good anytime. It also gets a few laughs.   Technorati tags: blue monster, SDN

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Travelling man

April 28, 2007 General

Vinnie pinged me to bemoan his extensive travelling. At ‘;our’ age it’s no fun.  Next week will be another bonkers travelling fest. I arrive at Stansted airport on Tuesday around lunchtime. A quick dash to the Apple store in Regent Street gets me back where I need to be hardware wise. Then on to a [...]

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Windows reVista

April 28, 2007 General

Having been forced onto Windows through my own stupidity I’ve been pleasantly surprised. LiveWriter is the dog’s nuts as a blog editor and using Firefox is a much better experience than on the Mac. Does this mean I’m being lured back to Wintel? No. Mac hardware provides a much more satisfying experience and with the current [...]

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David's a girlie

April 28, 2007 Asides

David Terrar reckons he’s a London Geek Girl. OK – so where’s the pic of him in a tutu? Technorati tags: london geek girl, twinfield

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Twinfield and Freshbooks investigating hookup

April 27, 2007 General

David Terrar of Twinfield just IM’d me to say he’s had a conversation with Mike McDerment of FreshBooks. They’re looking at a way of hooking the two services together. David’s talking to the chap who does the geeky stuff that makes those connections possible. This is a super smart and natural extension of what both [...]

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Sage chairman kicks himself out

April 27, 2007 General

What a surprise? Sir Julian Horn-Smith has resigned as chairman of Sage after only 8 months citing cultural differences between what he is used to from 20 years at Vodafone. The FT opines: His abrupt departure is a blow for the Newcastle-based group, with a market capitalisation of £3.4bn, which has been strongly acquisitive and has [...]

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The primacy of design

April 27, 2007 General

Dan McWeeney and I had an interesting discussion about the importance of good design in software applications and services. Dan does most of his work in Ruby on Rails. I’m not a super geeky type. All I know is that Rails delivers some really good looking applications – like Basecamp, which has more than 1 million [...]

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AMR sees A1S, confusion reigns

April 27, 2007 General

This is really annoying. AMR reports having seen a demo of A1S at SAPPHIRE. I’ve been yelling at SAP about this all week. AMR is light on detail but one thing caught my eye: Customers can then buy the software by simply generating a quote based on the number of users and selected functionality. Uh? [...]

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Checking out Live Writer

April 27, 2007 General

As I am temporarily Macless I’ve powered up the ol’ Windows XP box for the first time on over 18 months. The fan is so loud the machine sounds like an aircraft in permanent taxi mode. I’m playing with Live Writer. It’s darned good. Brain dead easy with a simple to understand interface and pretty [...]

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How to destroy a PowerBook with Java

April 27, 2007 General

Accidentally tip a cup of best Java coffee over the keyboard area. Yep – that’s what I did about an hour ago and now my PowerBook is dead – apart from some strange gurgling sounds. I watched in horror as coffee crept up the inside of the screen. I was almost tempted to throw water on [...]

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