by Tom | Apr 3, 2009 | Reading
One of my favourite stories of all time. Perfect Friday fayre.
by Tom | Apr 2, 2009 | Personal
I think wiffy occasionally has thoughts like this.
by Tom | Apr 2, 2009 | IT
I’ve had an odd thing the last few weeks where I can receive emails perfectly, but they just won’t send from my phone. I think this fix might be the answer. Lots of message could not be sent are history.
by Tom | Apr 2, 2009 | IT
YourFonts looks like an excellent idea. That said, my handwriting is appalling, so the idea of a personal handwriting font has some issues.
by Tom | Apr 2, 2009 | Reading
The Tough Guy challenge looks as unpleasant as ever. Kudos to the man in a mankini – some of the rope challenges will have been very unpleasant for him.Separately, there are some great shots of tough guys carrying out low-tech mining and oil extraction and...
by Tom | Apr 1, 2009 | Reading
I like what Twitterfall does to real-time news on Twitter. Look at the g20 hashtag to see how things build up over the day.
by Tom | Mar 31, 2009 | IT
Spare brain: remember that Task import requires the company name and contact name to be text, not the numerical identifiers. Makes life easier for my meetings management system, actually. [update 20100823: use the Company name (creates new) and Contact (first / last...
by Tom | Mar 27, 2009 | Reading
Daft, Smeille, Cocks are all for the chop. As are some of the names of the year competition. View the match off here.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | IT
Visio is expensive and very few people have it. So I should probably try these online alternatives. Certainly Lovely Charts is pretty, but you have to subscribe to use it on more than one chart in anger (fair enough, but I’d have carried on using it if I could...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | IT
Unusual for Nielsen to like any new-fangled navigation, but mega drop-downs are good. Anything “funky” that Microsoft introduces (like the ribbon in Office 2007) has been through a serious amount of user testing so should be seen as well worth considering....
