Category Archives: Thoughts on the World

Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows

If you’re one of those people who uses loads of Apple products, and is thinking of proposing Steve Jobs for canonisation, then you may be happy with how your iPad works, but if you’re trying to make it work effectively … Continue reading

Saturday, December 3, 2011 in Agile & Architecture, iPad, Thoughts on the World

I Thought They Were Supposed To Be Getting Smaller?

Musings on why my laptops are getting bigger and heavier, instead of smaller and lighter Continue reading

Monday, November 14, 2011 in PCs/Laptops, Thoughts on the World, VMWare

What Are The Chances Of That?

For the last couple of years, I’ve been working fairly regularly with a chap called Carl. The other day a group of us were chatting, and got to talking about cars we had owned. Among others, Carl had once owned … Continue reading

Friday, October 28, 2011 in Thoughts on the World

Not from My Cold, Dead Hand…

My regular correspondent Malachy Martin recently posed another of his “research” questions: What would work look like if you only had an iPad as your computing device? My first reactions focused on whether my iPad could replace my laptop. Then … Continue reading

Tuesday, August 2, 2011 in iPad, PCs/Laptops, Thoughts on the World, VMWare

Turning Points

A regular correspondent of mine just posed an interesting question: “The Web has significantly evolved over the past 15 years. What have been the major milestones in the web’s evolution either in business or technology?”   That’s quite a big … Continue reading

Monday, July 18, 2011 in Thoughts on the World

…And Then Three Come Along All At Once

Reflections on an excellent Summer for live music Continue reading

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 in Reviews, Thoughts on the World

Journey, Foreigner and Styx

Thoughts on what makes a good live music performance Continue reading

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 in Reviews, Thoughts on the World

iPad Communications Errors

I don’t know whether any other iPad / iPhone users out there get the same problem, but I’d be interested to hear if you do. Quite often I go to use an app which needs to communicate over the Internet, … Continue reading

Saturday, June 18, 2011 in iPad, Thoughts on the World

Enterprise Architecture Conference 2011 Day 3

Well the third day of EAC 2011 came and went. My talk went well. Despite the last minute scheduling change I got a decent audience, and once in front of real listeners managed to find my style and pace again. … Continue reading

Friday, June 10, 2011 in Agile & Architecture, iPad, Thoughts on the World

No Plan B

Thoughts on the inadequacy of contingency planning on the British transport networks Continue reading

Enterprise Architecture Conference

Halfway through, and this is shaping up to be the best EAC I have attended for a while. I was umming and aahing about whether to attend yesterday’s seminar sessions, and couldn’t make up my mind which to join. In … Continue reading

Thursday, June 9, 2011 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

Compact Camera Alienation?

Are compact and cellphone cameras fundamentally unsuited to a significant subset of the population? I am short sighted. With an SLR I look through the viewfinder at an image focused at the optical equivalent of about 1m, maybe a bit … Continue reading

Monday, April 25, 2011 in Photography, Thoughts on the World