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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
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
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
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
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
…And Then Three Come Along All At Once
Reflections on an excellent Summer for live music Continue reading
Journey, Foreigner and Styx
Thoughts on what makes a good live music performance Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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