Year 2007
Weekender
Reading time: 2 mins Blimey, what a weekend. Friday night was a works night out with a free bar for most of the evening. I spent less than £20 in total, and that includes my train fare into Glasgow. We had a room booked in a bar, with a roulette table on one side (which really didn’t interest me),…
save your jack
Reading time: < 1 min SAVE YOUR JACK – one of the simplest, and smartest, ideas built into my MacBook comes to the land of stereo headphones. A simple magnetic ‘plug’ and magnetic connection for your headphones. I’ll be grabbing a few of these when they are available.
On Triangles
Reading time: 4 mins This post is directly prompted by a discussion on TechWR which, whilst it occasionally frustrates, continues to provide plenty of scope for thought. Sylvia Braunstein asked about “Avoiding documentation bottlenecks whilst maintaining quality” and a couple of emails later the responses headed into a familiar territory. I call it the “management choice triangle” (or sometimes…
Being a moron is hard
Reading time: 3 mins The world is full of them and the internet gives them a voice. They are a specific breed, not just your everyday idiot, they wait for a target to pass and FIRE their salvos of ludicrous suggestion, usually firing so wide of the mark you wonder if they are aiming at something else. I really…
google time
Reading time: < 1 min Google tip: type “time” into a google search box, and it will display YOUR current time. Type “time + [city]” and you get the current time, relative to you, in that city. Smart.