Manners

Randomly, I read a further article that mentioned table manners and came across this huge list.

phpiCalendar

My online calendaring is working well (I didn´t need RemoteCalendars in the end): Outlook publishes to my WebDAV site (standard publish calendar to internet functionality with full details of private events turned on) Thunderbird with Lightning picks up the file...

Futures, again

It´s obviously that time of the year. 10 emerging technologies from technology review Modelling surprise Probabilistic chips NanoRadio Wireless Power Atomic magnetometers Offline web applications Graphene transistors Connectomics Reality mining Cellulolytic...

Freelance marketing

Some good stuff here from Matthew Stibbe (via Jonny). I like the list of stuff that doesn´t work: "fancy business cards, brochures, mail shots, random cold calling, PR." Agreed.

Lookeen search for Outlook

Hmmm. Lookout finally broke properly in Outlook, so I found an alternative: Lookeen. As you might tell from the name, it is essentially the same code, just dressed up a bit more prettily and works in Vista / Outlook 2007. If you haven´t tried Lookout in an older...

Acceptable behaviour in England

It made me laugh watching two middle-aged American ladies reading a web printout of this page on the tube a few days ago (I could just see the title and the word woodlands in the URL, which was enough for Google). Most of the suggestions are pretty spot-on, but the...

Myths of Entrepreneurship

Some interesting food for thought from Scott Shane via Guy Kawasaki. Summary: starting a business is hard, doesn´t take much money and is most likely not going to make you rich.

Make your own ginger beer

Caroline may never drink ginger beer again, after a can of the aforementioned (kindly brought up to the bath) combined with her second bout of vomiting bug this year. However, if she can contemplate it, it might be fun to make our own.

Radio David Byrne

Now that´s someone I´d trust for music recommendations. Now to find the time to listen to it. The archive lists are there, so you could always pootle and skip through previous ones.

FrontRow alternatives

It looks like the M-Audio Transit USB I use to get sound out of my Mac is the thing that is interacting badly with FrontRow, and causing it to hang. So I need to either change the Transit (which works fine; it seems to be many external audio devices that cause...