by Tom | Jul 23, 2007 | Reading
CIO offers insights into spotting and fixing potentially failing IT projects.
by Tom | Jul 23, 2007 | Personal
So we were trying to go to Caroline’s parents place in Tenbury Wells this weekend. We set off at 1pm, later than we expected thanks to a torrential downpour in London. We then took an hour-and-a-half to get to Hanger Lane due to unusually appalling traffic in...
by Tom | Jul 23, 2007 | IT
If your thumbnail and image resizing isn’t quite working in Gallery (system stops before reaching the end, there are broken images around), here are some thoughts.Uninstall and reinstall your graphics toolkitsUse NetPBM as the first one, ImageMagick as the...
by Tom | Jul 23, 2007 | Government
Targets are set to be slashed. The number of targets, not the levels, necessarily. The need to cut costs suggests that new targets will be even fiercer than previously, even if there are fewer of them.Looks like Transformational Government is not dead, with the...
by Tom | Jul 23, 2007 | Reading
This Trikke looks like fun – a skiing action while you wheel around town. Hard work, I’d have thought.
by Tom | Jul 23, 2007 | Reading
I cannot get my brain to see that A and B are the same colour. I have downloaded the image and checked that they are (they are). I want to work out how to train my brain to see that they are the same colour.
by Tom | Jul 23, 2007 | Reading
Its official – you should sit at the back of the plane, if you are that nervous.
by Tom | Jul 23, 2007 | Science
There’s a computer program that can play to a draw or win in any game you play against it. I suppose you could still practice against it to improve your game against fellow humans. That’s a 1020 game space. Chess 1047, GO on a 19×19 grid about...
by Tom | Jul 23, 2007 | Science
Caroline sends a link to the reason that this summer is odd: the jet stream is too low. Exam question: is this caused by climate change, or merely a one-off oddity?
by Tom | Jun 26, 2007 | IT
Larry has a fantastically useful page identifying the things that still go wrong in Microsoft CRM installations in a Small Business Server environment. Reports are now working, so we’re nearly there…I forgot to mention DownHome, who were also great.A new...
