Off skiing, so these will have to wait until next week:
Archive for January, 2008
Good case study (?) of how to get small groups collaborating and driving innovation. I can’t see us transferring ITW to a beach, though.
Some interesting figures for US SMS costs vs standard internet. I wonder what the picture is like in the UK, where far more people have SMS bundles as part of their plan costs.
I hadn’t come across beeping - making intentional missed calls - by that name. Nice idea: what other “standard” messages should we allow for free - I have “I’m leaving now” set up as a fast text on my phone, for example. As the article says, government should have a pile of these for its citizens and customers.
Very neat algorithm to extrapolate 2D to 3D. Take a few pictures, a reverse panorama, if you like, and you have a pretty good 3D model.
If only I had known before I installed Vista that I could massively reduce its footprint. Ach well.
So once you have gone to the trouble of getting Lookout to work in Outlook 2007, you find that the date parsing is broken (I got the “incorrect date syntax in range” error). You can either force Outlook to downgrade its .Net framework, or fix the Lookout dll (I downloaded the version on the site; it worked).
Lots of good things on how to manage and facilitate communities with porous boundaries.
ExMerge lets you grab multiple mailboxes to PSTs. This is a great backup, especially of old dead mailboxes you want to delete from your system. I got an “EXCHMEM.dll not found” error, fixed by copying the file from /Exchsvr/bin to the ExMerge folder. Some more useful stuff here. And you will most likely have to do this temporary work around to access data for backup. [Update: make sure you use a non-administrator account to do the ExMerging]
Useful free add-in to allow you to save a sequence of individual documents from your mail merge. Now to work out how to automatically email them to the individuals with a tailored email message. [Update: this will work, but is a little tricky]
Couldn’t remember if I was on the register or not, so I registered online. Let’s see how joined up government can be…
Great article by Charles Arthur suggesting that many industries have already changed their business model (or died) in the light of consumer preference as expressed over the web.
I must watch Tufte having problems with the iPhone.
Great photo of the earth reflected in an astronaut’s visor. Meta-meta-meta kind of thing.
And another classic view of Andromeda, a standard run-of-the-mill galaxy.
I hadn’t come across governmentium before. I have now.
An interesting side-by-side on Braun from the 60s and Apple today. Even more interesting also to see what newish Apple things weren’t included.
I’ve seen a regular Apple Software Update error - essentially an unknown failure trying to install a new version of iTunes. I finally worked out that this was because I hadn’t opened iTunes between the new install (7.6 in this case) and the previous software update (7.5). On opening iTunes, as I finally did while upgrading my iPod, I saw a “Accept licensing” screen which I guess was preventing the new iTunes installing. So there’s the lesson: open iTunes at least once when you’ve updated it.
Must watch this video of Tom Cruise on Scientology at some stage.
A mostly depressing list, I’m afraid.
Nice - roll on all of those heads-up-displays we’ve seen in the movies.
