Monthly Archive for September, 2007

Acupuncture is bunk

Good Bad Science on acupuncture – sham is no different to real.

Shared services watered down?

I’m not sure that’s exactly the message that John Suffolk wanted to get across…The Cabinet Office has effectively dropped the idea of requiring largegroups of Whitehall departments to merge their corporate services underthe transformational government initiative.

Connected organisations

Apparently Gary Hamel is writing about network connected organisations (also known as wirearchy). FYI this applies to inside and between organisations.

Nice fonts and Qucksilver

Unrelated, but I heart fonts and I really like Quicksilver, so much so that I’ve faked up some core functionality in Windows using Macro Express (none of the other tools quite do it for me).

Neat summary of proof correction marks

I use “formal” proof correction marks most of the time, but also use them wrongly. Here’s a very clear summary (PDF) of how they should work.

Change MS CRM default filter values

The way we use CRM means that we don’t really need “My contacts” as we mostly deal with everyone. So we need to change that default filter. It looks like the only option is client side javascript, and thankfully

SBS W32 time server error

Get the occasional one of these W32Time errors. Let’s see if these fixes work.

Source

Event ID

Last Occurrence

Total Occurrences

W32Time

29

24/09/2007 20:50

1

The time provider NtpClient is configured to acquire time from one or more time sources, however none of the sources are currently accessible. No attempt to contact a source will be made for 960 minutes. NtpClient has no source of accurate time.

SBS Exchange IMS 0×800710f0 error

It’s a pain to get an error that isn’t really an error. Fine that the spam filter doesn’t filter >3Mb, but why keep telling me?

Cute but wrong

Is it just me, or is the title “Baby animal love story” wrong? Cute pictures of orang-utang and tiger cubs, though.

Extraordinary interview with Ahmadinejad

Can you imagine the uproar if a foreign journalist interviewed a Western leader in this way: “What were you thinking”, “Why won’t you answer my questions”? Good on Ahmadinejad (or his superlative interpreter) for keeping calm.

I’m all for combative journalism, but asking lots of “Please trot out a soundbite” questions just isn’t working for me.

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