February 2009 - Posts

Lessons of over-promise, under-deliver
25 February 09 04:57 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

UPDATE: 28/2/09 Just got an email from the general manager of the restaurant (after my message back to them), graciously admitting to “ what can only be described as a complete failure of our internal system ”, which has led to the entire team getting Read More...

HTC s740 – great phone, just one thing…
20 February 09 07:41 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

I got one of these things a couple of weeks ago… in essence, a great phone (I prefer the “smartphone” type device as opposed to the touch screen variety) – I’ve spent the last couple of years with the HTC s620 and it was time for a change. Key differences Read More...

Filed under: Consumer Tech, Mobile

Happy 1,234,567,890 seconds since 1/1/1970
13 February 09 06:33 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

Well there’s a thing. CNET reported that today officially marks the 1.2-odd billion seconds past the beginning of 1970, a standard that’s used in UNIX (and by the C programming language) as the basis for all time measurements. If you’re reading this before Read More...

Filed under: Random Stuff

Business continuity – it’s a people thing, not just a premises one
12 February 09 08:44 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

I had a really interesting discussion with a customer last week, when we were musing over the effects that the snow had on UK businesses. It was another example – like the floods which have hit parts of the country over the last few years – of a threat Read More...

Filed under: Outlook, Unified Comms, OCS, Business

Custom presence states in OCS – revisited again
06 February 09 09:15 AM | Ewan | 5 Comments   

I posted a while back about custom presence states ( here and here ). Well it turns out that a change made to an updated version of Communicator, requires (by default) that the custom state XML file is downloaded from a “secure” URL (so ruling out the Read More...

Filed under: Unified Comms, OCS

When the weather outside is frightful…
04 February 09 09:21 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

… the UC technology is soooo delightful. OK, it’s cheesy as you can get, but very true. The weather forecast on Sunday night was for heavy snow, and sure enough we awoke on Monday to about 4-6 inches of fresh snow – something that many countries would Read More...

Filed under: Unified Comms, OCS, Business