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.
by Tom | Dec 14, 2007 | IT
Nice move – now they have storage, computing and a simple database available.
by Tom | Dec 13, 2007 | Reading
Interesting, and slightly scary looking new home page for the BBC (with some rationale). I have never enjoyed “my.homepage” screens, and this one is similar. The Ajaxy rapid update is good, though.
by Tom | Dec 13, 2007 | Reading
Time has more lists than you can shake a stick at. Many of them are “gah” lists with not much really new. However, there are some nuggets in there. From Jonza comes the Rough Trade list (of albumclub fame) too much to investigate there, I am afraid.
by Tom | Dec 13, 2007 | Reading
Beautiful / strange look at a whale hunt.
by Tom | Dec 13, 2007 | Reading
The team wants to video our Xmas trip to Palma, so borrowed a video camera (Sony DCR 101E or something like that). We couldn’t get the tape in it (it would pop back out again after some beeping. There was an error message on the screen (C 21:00 – I thought...
