17 April 2012
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I made a short post related to the goal of Inbox Zero about a year and a half ago but must confess that I have not spent much time in that semi-mythical land of digital organisation. The problem of lingering … Continue reading
20 March 2012
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Look at this delightfully tempting email I received from the tax man: Claim Your Tax Refund Online Dear Customer, HM Revenue & Customs has identified an error in the calculation of your tax from the last payment, amounting to £ … Continue reading
1 March 2012
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Work has been full of challenges over the last month, ever since I got into the office on the first day of February and found that my main server wouldn’t switch on. I’ve since refined my restoration plans (the other … Continue reading
20 February 2012
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As well as posting something to my blog most days, I also keep up to date with numerous other blogs and information feeds. I’ve settled on using Google Reader, which is just as well as most of the competition seems … Continue reading
14 February 2012
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I see the default behaviour of Delicious.com has changed to make links private by default. Fair enough but it would have been helpful to get a warning. I wanted to show Jane a site I bookmarked earlier today and was … Continue reading
13 February 2012
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Something is screwy with file permissions on the web server that hosts my church website (St Clements, Oxford). It looks like I will have to keep putting any files or images online myself. I’ve wrestled with it for a while … Continue reading
8 February 2012
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It is probably a few years too late to predict virtualisation (“virtual” computers running as programs on physical machines) as the way of the future but I am making the most of it today. I recently had a nasty server … Continue reading
24 January 2012
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Apparently Ubuntu is considering a move away from traditional GUI menus to use an interface called HUD (presumably Heads Up Display). I watched a short video on the Read Write Web site. There is also more information on Mark Shuttleworth’s … Continue reading
3 January 2012
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When I read Making Money by Terry Pratchett I was intrigued by the financial computer he described. Constructed from various tubes, taps and joints, it used coloured water to model the Ankh-Morpork economy, allowing the resident financial genius to make … Continue reading
20 December 2011
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That is what I normally feel like screaming after looking at my hard crafted web designs in earlier versions of Internet Explorer and this afternoon, visiting colleagues in neuropathology at the JR (IE7) was no exception. I am counting down … Continue reading