Connected organisations

Apparently Gary Hamel is writing about network connected organisations (also known as wirearchy). FYI this applies to inside and between organisations.

Nice fonts and Qucksilver

Unrelated, but I heart fonts and I really like Quicksilver, so much so that I’ve faked up some core functionality in Windows using Macro Express (none of the other tools quite do it for me).

Change MS CRM default filter values

The way we use CRM means that we don’t really need “My contacts” as we mostly deal with everyone. So we need to change that default filter. It looks like the only option is client side javascript, and thankfully

SBS W32 time server error

Get the occasional one of these W32Time errors. Let’s see if these fixes work.SourceEvent IDLast OccurrenceTotal Occurrences W32Time2924/09/2007 20:501The time provider NtpClient is configured to acquire time from one or more time sources, however none of the...

SBS Exchange IMS 0×800710f0 error

It’s a pain to get an error that isn’t really an error. Fine that the spam filter doesn’t filter >3Mb, but why keep telling me?

Cute but wrong

Is it just me, or is the title “Baby animal love story” wrong? Cute pictures of orang-utang and tiger cubs, though.

Extraordinary interview with Ahmadinejad

Can you imagine the uproar if a foreign journalist interviewed a Western leader in this way: “What were you thinking”, “Why won’t you answer my questions”? Good on Ahmadinejad (or his superlative interpreter) for keeping calm.I’m...

Government news

Public sector outsourcing will grow by £25bn by 2012/13. It doesn’t feel that way on the ground. Even a £10bn rise in services to government feels too low to interest suppliers.Our e-Government services seem to work quite well in the latest Capgemini...

Senses (pain and cats)

Two contrasting developments in sense-related technology:A simple pain inflicting ray could mess up warfare and massively enhance 4GW (imagine a terrorist cell with one of these: get rid of the guards at the X and then bomb it).Haptic sensors (here cat’s...