by Tom | May 26, 2005 | Reading
Egads! Some signs of truly joined up government around spatial references. Why is it important? Because postcodes don’t uniquely identify anything, and aren’t necessarily useful even when they do.
by Tom | May 26, 2005 | Personal
Charles Arthur is absolutely right: you’ve heard a song and like it and think “shall I buy the album”. If the song is the first one on the album, the album is rubbish. If the song is somewhere else, the album is likely to be OK. Think...
by Tom | Apr 28, 2005 | IT
Aardvark Firefox Extension looks interesting.
by Tom | Apr 28, 2005 | IT
Simpler mini-GTD for outlook using seven folders. They don’t mention what purgatory is for, though. That’s quite fitting…
by Tom | Apr 28, 2005 | Personal
Nice article on building a better PVR out of an Old PC. The link that was really interesting was to Slimserver which allows you to stream music over the net for free. Brilliant.
by Tom | Apr 28, 2005 | Reading
More Google genius with maps and yellow pages and my local curry houses.
by Tom | Apr 28, 2005 | Reading
They just keep on going. Google Print allows you to search the full text of books they’ve scanned in. Here’s a search for shared services that I’m working on at the moment.
by Tom | Apr 26, 2005 | Science
You can make fire with can of Coke and a chocolate bar.
by Tom | Apr 26, 2005 | Government
EU stats on e-Government usage. Some interesting reading – UK is rising, and is higher than the 15% number I’ve seen.
by Tom | Apr 26, 2005 | Reading
send notes pages and not overloading your users.