by Tom | Jan 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
So here I am sitting on a bench in our lovely hotel in Cape Town on the foothills of Table Mountain, looking at Table Bay and Signal Hill. It is sunny, very windy so in general things are good. However, Caroline is ill and has been in bed all day, and our server at...
by Tom | Dec 21, 2007 | Science
Apparently one lone motorist slamming on the brakes can cause mile-long tailbacks. That’s the conclusion we had come to following a string of inexplicable hold ups on various motorways in various years. (For what it is worth, I think this is bad marketing of...
by Tom | Dec 20, 2007 | Reading
Interesting decision by the Parisian administration to cut the amount of public advertising space by 1/3rd. I wonder a) what they think this will achieve and b) whether any other cities would follow suit.
by Tom | Dec 19, 2007 | IT
I have a regular error in our backup “tcpsvcs (2940) The backup has been stopped because it was halted by the client or the connection with the client failed.” This is either a problem (need to reregister a dll) or not a problem (a bug). We have tried the...
by Tom | Dec 19, 2007 | IT
There are some useful screen capture tools out there. CamStudio looks good, and there is a list of alternatives in the comments on the beta.
