Monthly Archive for February, 2005

Five fast email productivity tips

Some useful email productivity tips. I’ve been slipping recently, but had my inbox down to below ten items for a few weeks. Much healthier.

Google Help : Cheat Sheet

Google Help : Cheat Sheet has a nice summary of all of the more sophisticated options for searching Google.

Torrent Site Status

Torrent Site Status is what it says. In the post SuprNova era, this is the best place to start looking for torrents.

Classic Onion

Ben and Jerry’s celebrates Michael Moore. The Waffle Truth.

Lucky to have got close to Leopards

Tigers of Rajasthan ‘disappear’ suggests the Sariska Tiger Reserve is now rather an inappropriate name. Sounds like the poachers have had some fun. There were only 20 tigers in 80,000 square kilometers of reserve a few years ago. Lucky we saw leopard tracks at all, I guess. The place to go, apparently is Ranthambore.

Analyse-It

Some useful statistical software for Microsoft Excel that we might need to use. Only

Gates

It’s almost worth buzzing over to New York to see the Gates. Another great stunt / art / happening from the Christos.

PDF Writer

Another freeware PDF writer. I still like this one – they’re all printer drivers, so pretty transparent to the end user.

Oz e-Government benefits study

The Australians have carried out a benefits study on their e-gov programme. It’s worth a read to compare with our methodology.

Banks’ spending bonanza threatens e-gov

Apparently banks are ramping up IT spend and this could lead to the public sector suffering – especially in this last year of the e-Government targets.