Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
This morning, as usual I got up with Ruby at around 7am, took her downstairs whilst I made some tea and had a bit of breakfast. I then spent 5 minutes teaching her how to do ‘Eskimo Kisses’ (rubbing noses together). She thought this was hilarious (she is only 16…
Whilst researching waterproof mitts, I came across this great feature on Outdoor Design’s Fitzroy Mitt Flocking patchallows for nose secretion management All through my life my mother / girlfriend / wife have been telling me to STOP wiping my nose on my sleeve, now these guys are giving me free…
I just spent a few hours setting up nGallery on my site. It was real easy, very simple install, just worked !! AND IT’s FREE !! I then hacked around with a template for a bit and got it looking the same as the rest of my website (which uses…
The excellent RSSPopper (version 0.31) expired on me this morning. After visiting their website I found stable version 0.32 which is valid until 1 Dec 2006. Downloaded it, installed (over the top of the 0.31 expired version) – it just worked, all my feeds intact etc. boi no rolete
For ‘ad hoc’ scripting of Exchange Server, you just cannot beat Dmitry Streblechenko’s Outlook Redemption. It is basically a set of COM objects (in a DLL) which wrap many of the Outlook / Exchange objects, saving you from having to put some C++ code together to get around the horrible…
There are some tools I find myself adding to every machine I work on. Some of these come from Scott Hanselmans’ Ultimate Tools List. Currently I install the following on every machine :- Notepad2 Winzip CmdHere Powertoy for XP BGinfo from SysInternals CommandBar for Explorer VNC I also use a…
I have been working in Support / Technical Services for many years now and have seen my fair share of CRM / Helpdesk Applications. These vary from the big guys Seibel, Remedy, HEAT all the way to free PHP scripts with a messy web front end. One I’ve seen recently…
The much awaited version 4.2 of Archive One Policy (from C2C Systems, my employer) is now available. You can find details here. The aspect I’m excited about is the Integration Framework (see here for the announcement). This opens up a whole new arena for us – we can be both…
I have just changed my mobile phone to the new Samsung D600 (perviously I had always used Nokia models). The Samsung phone is pretty good, it provides me with a 2 mega pixel camera, micro SD slot (which I filled with a 512MB card, so now my phone are over…
Well I beat my record. This weekend I drove from Newbury, Berkshire to Argyll, Scotland to do some ‘munro baggging’ with my brother.It’s a 400 mile journey that I expected to do in around 7 hours. I ended up driving for 10 hours each way. The weather was pretty miserable…