They just keep on going. Google Print allows you to search the full text of books they’ve scanned in. Here’s a search for shared services that I’m working on at the moment.
Archive for April, 2005
More Google genius with maps and yellow pages and my local curry houses.
Nice article on building a better PVR out of an Old PC. The link that was really interesting was to Slimserver which allows you to stream music over the net for free. Brilliant.
Simpler mini-GTD for outlook using seven folders. They don’t mention what purgatory is for, though. That’s quite fitting…
Aardvark Firefox Extension looks interesting.
You can make fire with can of Coke and a chocolate bar.
EU stats on e-Government usage. Some interesting reading - UK is rising, and is higher than the 15% number I’ve seen.
Public Take-Up of eGovernment Services suggests that ministers aren’t behind e-gov, so no wonder it’s not widely used by the public. Nice use of They work for you as well.
These few simple examples show that if the government expects public take-up e-government services to increase, they need to be more confident and knowledgeable about what is on offer themselves. If ministers aren’t familiar with such projects why should the rest of us be?
NB a very funny mistype on the article title. I wonder how long that will take to fix?
The Radio Times TV listings grid is quite neat. If you’re logged in, you can have it show the programmes you’re interested in and keep favourites, etc. One for bookmarking on the Mac Mini. [Update: this one's OK for side by side view as well]
Gantt Chart Links is a nice set of things you can do in Excel to avoid using Gantt charts in MS Project.
An unusual survey of e-Government in cities; the “e-Citizenship for All” benchmark survey. There are some sparse results in there, such as the shift of e-Government from a simple response to legislation to an agenda item within councils. The negativity towards outsourcing is clear, especially where the councils own processes aren’t in a fit state to outsource. The language also sounds very UK-centric, but maybe that’s just me.
Yet another set of e-readiness rankings from the EIU. Not sure what they measure (or for that matter how they measure anything interesting). However, always useful to have some comparators.
There’s free wireless access in Islington along the Upper Street stretch of the A1 for a while “until a commercial provider can be put in place”. Nice idea.
East Riding council has gone well beyond the norm in outsourcing to an international company for its revenues and benefits, customer services and IT among others. The customer services, especially, is a substantial move. They’re looking to get business from other councils and companies as well. Interesting development.
Cheapish web apps you can evhead: run your company on. Some nice ideas vs self service / hosting.
Deloitte (US) is reporting that outsourcing doesn’t always prove beneficial. The suggestion is that it is going backwards.
Sea Code has a boat off international waters around LA to avoid tax regulations. A near/sea/shore solution.
I always forget that the Official Journal of the European Union is called TED for something like Tenders daily. So now I shouldn’t!
Burn yourself a floppy or CD to and reset your windows password. I’m sure I’ve noted this before, but I needed it yet again.
