Posts

  • Ditching Windows – again..

    I changed jobs back in October 2005, and became a Microsofty again (well, only on my work laptop), at the weekend I lost it again and ditched XP in favour of Ubuntu Edgy Eft, ‘cos getting Debian on a laptop and getting all the funky bits working is just too much like hardwork. One of the companies I work for uses OWA for all non-corporate laptop email access. OWA for Ex2k3 sucks on anything but IE.

  • Excel is evil…

    ..or has the potential to be in the wrong hands. http://neopoleon.com/home/blogs/neo/archive/2003/09/29/5458.aspx

  • Flock that

    Flock Start Page Playing with Flock, the last time I looked, it wasn’t worth the effort, but then I didn’t blog or do flickr…maybe it will be more useful this time round.

  • Bright Ideas III: Flexible Project Management

    There are lots of different ways of tracking a project (i.e. a list of tasks, dates, calendars, time frames, notes etc), with various tools (MS Project, Basecamp from 37Signals, Google Calendar, Horde and a gazillion other applications and online tools). But so far not all of them manage the ideal all of all of the information everywhere. I would love to have the information spread acoss my PDA (Palm, online � offline), Laptop(Outlook, Thunderbird, online � offline) � web-based online access.

  • Windows XP hibernate fixed!

    After struggling � cursing Microsoft for months, I found this post, applied this patch, Q330909_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe, everything is good again 🙂 There is a description from Microsoft here.

  • Writing, Briefly

    My job seems to have morphed into writing a lot and not doing a lot1, while distracting myself from something I should have been doing, I stumbled on this: Writing, Briefly, from Paul Graham. A good read. Although I’d break stuff up more than he does/has in that article 🙂

  • Horde ICS iCal fun

    I applied this patch: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=4193 to my syncml horde instance, working well so far, just have to get my head round the mess of a naming convention in the iCal world.

  • Bright Ideas II: Photo Tagging

    I use a mix of photo gallery software, I use Flickrfor some things, notable stuff that’s public for other people to use, I also use Fuzzy Monkey‘s My Photo Gallery, which is simple, but has some neat features (like auto thumbnail generation, keeps photos and thumbnails seperate, allowing me to use Unison/rsync to keep my online photos in sync with an offline copy, simple passwording etc). But I’m beginning to dig tagging, so I hoked about for some web gallery software that does this, and there seems to be a real shortage, I found Originaland a modificationof it that supports tagging, but it mix of php � python, and I couldn’t get my head round all of the Python.

  • Computer Voodoo!

    Somebody else has similar powers to me: Problem: Friend/Collegue/Family member with broken PC Remedy: Walk into the room! http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194486&cid=15938145