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Archive for December, 2005
Safely back from a lovely xmas break in Wales with most of the family, and the family we never knew. More later when the pictures are ready. Publishing this from performancing, which is interesting - seems good so far.
Let’s see if Performancing is any better than the pop up screen I normally use. I’m sure it will be.
Slightly strange time for the Adam Smith Institute to publish a report on sorting out e-Government. Must have been a nice jolly to Tallinn, then?
Another beautiful galaxy photo on APOD. Amazing to realise that this kind of quality of picture has been available to us for a very short time indeed.
One more and one less useful training source (I leave it to you to work out which).
- Learn music (theory)
- Learn to fold napkins
Answer: they’re both important, but the latter has some place at this time of the year if you care about impressing rellies.
There’s something about Sun headlines. They can sometimes summarise the general opinion in the country around a particular issue in five or six words. Today’s is a glorious example:
Google Zeitgeist is out. Interesting to see London as the first thing on the list. It’s not that we’ve forgotten about it, rather that it is odd that other people still see it as important.
8 Cool Firefox Plugins You Never Knew Existed is probably over egging it. However, there are some interesting ones there.
You can get Treo 650 WiFi Light with Reverse BT DUN. Means nothing to most people; could be useful for me.
A good day for science indeed.
“Intelligent design†is “a religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theoryâ€
Some reporting in the Guardian.
Jon Udell: Predictions for 2006 sees him take the elapsed time between a mention in his blog and the target’s later acquisition (9 months, often) as a proxy for predicting the future.
myGifts looks like a neat joint wishlist programme. Just too late for xmas, though.
This list of core applications for the Mac starts with ten, but there are some useful suggestions in the comments.
Nice idea: use the free VMWare Player to run alternative (mostly Linux) OSes on your PC.
There’s a fun review of 2005 through a Public Sector IT lens. Not good reading for EDS.
A couple of interesting posts from the ex eDT head. The first is on integration in large organisations and the second looks at why government gets big IT wrong much of the time.
I had thought that the six degrees theory was bunk, but apparently not. Just goes to show, hey? I should probably read my own blog (or remember what I’ve read).
A clear summary in this Economist report on the EU budget. As far as I see it:
- Blair did well to get a deal
- The deal is really not bad for the UK - especially in comparison with France, Spain
- Angela Merkel has played a powerful role despite her relative weakness at home. I guess people like someone else to negotiate with
Foxmarks is a new Bookmarks synchroniser for Firefox. I’d been using the Bookmarks Synchroniser one, but this looks better supported.
