Accenture out of NPfIT

It’s been trailled for a while, but interesting to see that Accenture has finally pulled out of NPfIT.[Update: some musings from the OGC on risk for suppliers. And £30m more for Government Connect.]

Exchange mailbox permissions

An excellent find: a free utility which cascades Exchange mailbox and folder permissions down through a hierarchy. This saves you doing every single folder if people store stuff outside or underneath their Inbox. A massive, massive time saver if you share inboxes, as...

Restart OSXVnc

Sometimes when VNC really isn’t working you need to restart it. A simple SSH can do this as follows:sudo /Library/StartupItems/OSXvnc/OSXvnc stopsudo /Library/StartupItems/OSXvnc/OSXvnc start

Performancing for Mac

The theme posted here fixes (for me) the Mac problems with the cursor getting lost as you edit in Mac Firefox and Performancing.

My perfect shroom?

Caroline wonders if the curry milkcap might be the solution to my take-them-or-most-often-leave-them approach to mushrooms.

Sign of my age

So…most of the people I know who have tried social networking sites have tried Friends Reunited or are “contacts” on LinkedIn. Very few use anything else (like Plaxo, for example). So it was somewhat of a shock to get a mail from Bella (who used to...

Treo 650 upgrade

There’s a version 1.20 available here. Tricky to find, initially.

Sun in two guises

Two lovely shots of the sun. Firstly with the space station and the space shuttle silhouetted against the sun and secondly as a triple sunrise.