Nice PDF toolkit that allows you to do the merge / split files thing that is the only other function I’ve ever used in Acrobat (other than creating PDFs).
Archive for May, 2004
The Linksys WRT54G seems to be the router to buy. I like the idea of self-discovering mesh networks and the traffic shaping algorithms.
Ian Watmore is the new head of e-gov in the UK. Accenture are all over central government now - two NHS contracts and now this. Very interesting.
Link-addressable streams, revisited. You what? The ability to link to segments of a web hosted streaming media file rather than just to the whole thing. Nice.
I’m now in the depths of setting up a plog (ugly word) and there’s some useful thoughts from Jon Udell: InfoWorld: Publishing a project Weblog and telling a story.
MINI Cooper vs Ford F150. You’d rather be in the SUV? Think again.
Open Drivers is a useful place to go looking for drivers if the vendor’s site is down.
Some lovely selected quotes from Tom DeMarco on Ted Leung’s blog.
The first one gives a good flavour:
People under time pressure don’t think faster
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Nielsen speculates on what he’ll be doing on computers in thirty years’ time.
Thinking about software licensing for a small ISV and the issue of open source is a nice article about how you might use OSS as a defensive move in setting up a new company.
My brother-in-law Chris had a pretty perfect day at the office a couple of years ago, and is still doing well.
Radiant Logic say that context is important in EAI. They’re right.
For all sorts of reasons, I just registered a company for £40. Let’s see a) how the spam starts piling up and b) what turnover I can get it to (nb, I do not expect it to be large!)
David Fletcher at Utah is using dotProject to manage their project and programme management methodology. Nice.
The Rise of Interface Elegance in Open Source Software charts the pleasant rise of simpler, more productive interfaces in OSS. Good quote:
A kernel hacker, who we might all consider to be a “power user” may not be a power user when he just wants to burn a CD for his road trip.
Not quite what the title suggests! Alan Mather uses the analogy of producing a centralised Doom engine and then allowing individual agencies / councils to create their own WADs.
What on earth is going on here? The American dream gone mad?
After six months without a ciggie, I’m glad that they are still publishing articles like this: apparently smoking less isn’t healthy because your body adjusts to maximise your intake of bad stuff. Clever, but also a little self-destructive.
Getting things done the methodology. Gotta start using something like this - my inbox is up to over 1000.
Gates, RSS and blogging means that I’m now mainstream. Darn it, I shall have to think of something else suitably public / vaguely personal to do.
