Mac OSX–A Third-Class OS?

Does Apple’s opposition to virtualisation create a technical ghetto? Continue reading

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 in Code & Development, PCs/Laptops, Thoughts on the World, VMWare

Tyranny of the Colour Blind

Musings on why Microsoft are abandoning colour as a dimension for information visualisation Continue reading

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 in Agile & Architecture, Thoughts on the World

Normal Service Will Be Resumed–Honest!

Apologies to regular readers of my blog for the delay since my last significant post. I’ve been very busy with a number of things: working overtime at National Grid, getting new consultancy contracts running, updating my Bibble plugin to work … Continue reading

Thursday, February 2, 2012 in Photography, Website & Blog

Ten Ways to Make Your iPad Work Effectively With Windows – Update

Microsoft have released an arguably belated but nonetheless very welcome version of OneNote optimised for the iPad and with very good synchronisation to the PC. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough that I’ve updated my guidance on how to … Continue reading

Monday, January 16, 2012 in iPad, 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

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

Website and Email Back

Apologies to anyone who has had a problem with my website or sending me email over the last few days. I had a rogue backup process which was carefully filling the disk with old backups! Thanks to Webfusion Support for … Continue reading

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 in Website & Blog

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