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Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:26 AM

Car trouble – a possible metaphor for new software ?

A little over a year ago I mentioned I had taken delivery of a big Citroen. It’s my seventh, I’ve likened it to driving a church – not as a criticism but because of the sense of serenity inside, due in no small part to Citroen’s clever HydroPneumatic
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Monday, November 02, 2009 6:11 PM

You can’t be a 21st century admin without PowerShell

When I was at school my father gave me a copy of an article he’d seen at work. I remember nothing of the article itself, but the title has stayed with me: “You can’t be a 20th century man without maths”. I think even then “You can’t be a [time] [person]
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Saturday, July 25, 2009 8:00 AM

Vulcan hunting: a mini case study in social media

I’ve described some of my activities over recent weekends as the biggest hunt for a Vulcan since Star Trek III - The Search For Spock . The Vulcan I’m after isn’t the pointy eared kind but XH558, the only flying example left of the V Bomber. It’s very
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Friday, July 24, 2009 8:40 PM

Seventh Heaven

As I mentioned recently I have bought a new Camera – the Pentax K7 : as a proper photographer I’m bothered more by lenses than camera bodies and last year I acquired Pentax’s beautiful 77mm Limited series. All those 7s and a new version of Windows...
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Friday, July 24, 2009 12:16 PM

A tale of two codecs. Or how not to be a standard.

I’ve just bought a new digital SLR camera. Being a dyed in the wool Pentax person, I’ve upgraded to their new K7. Being fairly serious about (some of) my photography I shoot quite a lot in RAW format.(In case you didn’t know higher end digital cameras
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:10 PM

Fifteen minutes of fame. Not like this, thanks.

What some people refer to as “Life’s rich tapestry” has had more knots and twists in it than usual for me of late. The biggest of which was the plane crash. We’re used to the sounds of aircraft: if you extend  the runway line of the former RAF Abingdon
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Friday, May 01, 2009 11:47 AM

F1 thoughts.

The first F1 season I remember properly is 1976: James Hunt being champion, winning the British Grand Prix (I was at the Benson and Hedges cup final – Kent vs Gloucestershire – that day), then having the win taken away as my first memory of the governing
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:55 PM

Google Street View : photography and the breakdown of common sense.

Working for Microsoft, and holding views on privacy which border on paranoia, you might expect me to to be doing a gleeful little dance at the news that Privacy International have lodged a complaint with the Office of the Information Commissioner about
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:23 PM

Imminent Death Of Twitter Predicted: A case study, the Malaysian F1 GP.

First to explain the title “Imminent death of X predicted” is a snowclone , and its entry* in the Hacker’s dictionary sticks in my mind Hugh Macleod proposed “ All online social networks eventually turn into a swampy mush of spam." as Hugh's law , and
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:13 PM

On Geekdom, Windows Live, Twitter and Stephen Fry. Just another weekend post.

First , a geeky joke which my wife told me after hearing it on BBC Radio 2. “I bought a book called 1001 things to do with binary. But when I got it home it only had nine in it”. While we’re with all things Geeky, I always thought that proper developers,
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Monday, January 26, 2009 1:43 PM

Camera-phones One Note and OCR.

Everyone uses different bits of office. There’s a core piece that everyone uses and then we all have our personal 10%. I like the OCR feature of One-Note. For example on the way to the BETT show a few days back I saw an advert on the tube that’s a grander
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Friday, January 02, 2009 3:29 PM

Gas bills and the people ready business.

It’s a constant puzzle to people from the US and Europe that Britain seems to be split brained about weights and measures. We buy our petrol in Litres, but our beer in Pints. My French car gives me a read-out of fuel consumption in Miles per Gallon, but
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Monday, December 01, 2008 4:33 PM

Green IT and adding up the numbers

I did the keynote for the virtualization unplugged tour recently, and I tried to draw several themes together in it. Virtualization is good for making IT more dynamic (and what that means and why it is good thing) and Virtualization is good for saving
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:27 AM

Safe on-line part 2 (in praise of John Lewis)

I’ve talked about brand values and somewhere along the line I sure I said that I choose to shop at Waitrose instead of Tesco or Sainsbury’s. Since Waitrose is part of the John Lewis partnership I have had one of their credit cards for a while (my local
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:40 AM

Back from tech.ed

I’ve had a busy few days: after Tech.ed we had some internal training in Barcelona over the weekend, and I  flew back from Tech-ed to a concert in London on Sunday night. I have quoted a line or two of Anne Clark’s on this blog: I saw her in a TV
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