The office has now (in it’s dubious wisdom) decided to block xkcd.com….my epitaph for a site that keeps me laughing every single day

Or “21 Ideas about leading Innovation” 1. Creativity means doing new things with old ideas. 2. Treat innovation as an import-export business.  Keep trying to bring in ideas from outside your group or organization, keep trying to show and tell others about your ideas, and blend them all together. 3. Look for and build intersections [...]

Really excited for a couple of guys from my teams…they’re starting their #Fusion journey today in RMA Sandhurst. We’ve swapped a few emails about the course and spoken a little but there’s nothing like that feeling of excitement mixed with trepidation at the kick-off session with a room-full of (largely unknown) colleagues. It’s only a [...]

Absolutely loving this piece of work ! Then clicking on these summaries takes you to a detail view Not particularly groundbreaking you might think but the implications are significant…data (the bard’s poems in this case) reside in the Google App Engine ‘Cloud’ and the heavylifting gets done by a little python scripting to get the [...]

I own an iPod Touch…it’s a great device and all the millions of words that have been written around the web on it, I’m not going to add further on it except to say I think it’s great…but! iTunes sucks ! It’s the worst bloated sluggish piece of desktop software I’ve seen in the last [...]

Two very interesting articles on teh interweb [sic!] show a serious change in the state and direction of internet…I wonder if in 20 years time we’ll look back and identify this as the tipping point  ? Macs to get AV Windows usage dips Time will tell ;0)

IT Media sources reporting on the Googlephone release and it’s manifest inadequacies when compared to the Jesus Phone quoted Steve Jobs… “I laughed so much a little bit of wee came out” No headphone jack No bluetooth stereo No iPhone-like touchscreen ability No Client for sync’ing your calendar, contacts etc Keyboard quoted as ‘mediocre’ Plastics [...]

Yum ! This imagineering concept converges communications, data, UI and OS into one seamless and beautifully conceived platform…if only one thing comes of this pllleeeeeaaasssssse let it be the semantic, clustered file system?

Have been tracking the IE8 release cycle for a bit now and am thoroughly underwhelmed by it’s lack of innovation. Then along comes Google’s Chrome with almost no fanfare and re-writes the browser paradigm. JS virtualisation in the app, threading in web apps presented as tabs…this is nothing more than an OS in a browser [...]

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