When the Internet is in full blown hype mode I usually don’t even bother to blog about it. But this I thought I’d make an exception on this one However, I haven’t even downloaded Chrome yet! (I have seen it in action though – some people can’t wait!) However, a few things caught my eye
Virtual PC – Couple of gotcha’s
Everyone knows virtualisation is a hot topic. I love the fact I can have a complete test infrastructure without having to keep lots of kit hanging around (you should she what’s in my loft at home!) I ran into a couple of hiccups last night which I kicked myself for once I’d realised what the
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Screensaver does start with a wireless mouse plugged in
Very strange one today I took a call a few days ago from a client who “wasn’t asked for her password anymore when she’d been away from her desk” My initial thought was that her screensaver had been disabled or the password option had been turned off I logged in and everything was as I’d
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Every had one of those days?
It’s said a picture says more than a thousand words and I thought this picture says an awful lot about why the blog has been so quiet lately I have a select few blogs that I keep up with religiously but recently the others have been left for when I have time to go back
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Geek Fiction
I like reading. We learn an awful lot through reading, the invention of RSS was like some sort of geek miracle!" As well as all the technical material I read I also like to read fiction. The problem I have is finding stuff I’m interested in. Even though it’s not a reference book I still
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Useful Outlook Tools
One the great things I love about reading blogs is the things you stumble across Dave Overton had a blog post today about software we rely on What software could you not live without – tell Windows Vista Magazine? – David Overton’s Blog Other than the Microsoft stuff he mentioned a program called EZDetach I
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Mojave Experiment – My Thoughts and consumer perceptions
I stumbled across the Windows Mojave website on various blogs last week (I think I saw it on Steve Clayton’s blog first) Here’s one description “Microsoft last week travelled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and
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We’ve Got Wheels
I’m certainly not the first person to have done this but couldn’t help post about it We’ve had an awful lot going on here recently I posted a couple of months ago about our latest recruit. The main plan was to get him up to speed on how we work and develop his role to
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SharePoint, Incoming Emails, Automatic Workflow’s, SORTED!
Yesterday’s post talked about how I’d tried to apply the Infrastructure Update for WSS so that I could get workflow’s to start automatically from incoming emails (history here and here) and I ended up killing my server! This morning I applied service pack 1 and then the update (after taking a complete backup of course
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Lucky Lucky Boy!
Yesterday I was supposed to be spending the day thinking about SharePoint at an event Combined Knowledge were running (Vijay posted the details here) I did spend the day thinking about SharePoint but for different reasons First a little bit of background We run two SharePoint sites internally that pretty much run our business There