Boardmad http://www.boardmad.com ...still mad for it ! Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:37:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Say you’d die for me…!!! http://www.boardmad.com/2008/10/02/say-youd-die-for-me/ http://www.boardmad.com/2008/10/02/say-youd-die-for-me/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:34:20 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=147

Dilb’s new supervisor - love the ‘udder trousers’

]]> http://www.boardmad.com/2008/10/02/say-youd-die-for-me/feed/ The figures tell a sorry tale… http://www.boardmad.com/2008/10/01/145/ http://www.boardmad.com/2008/10/01/145/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:32:01 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=145 An extract from Google Financials with four of the larget UK players in the Investment banking and financial services based back to a relative price at the start of September ‘08.
Those relative losses in value over one month make for painful reading…

RBS - buy at £1.50

]]> http://www.boardmad.com/2008/10/01/145/feed/ Who’s the Daaaaahhdddeee ? http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/25/whos-the-daaaaahhdddeee/ http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/25/whos-the-daaaaahhdddeee/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:43:53 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=139

Rams in the north of england fitted with harnesses and dyed packs to indicate which of the ewes in their flock have been serviced have been getting ‘bored’ and turning on one another in what can only be described as an ovine gay frenzy !

Gives an entirely new meaning to ‘getting fleeced’

]]> http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/25/whos-the-daaaaahhdddeee/feed/ Googlephone disappoints… http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/24/googlephone-disappoints/ http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/24/googlephone-disappoints/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:17:39 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=138 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 and build quality reported as poor

Wow…what an own goal !

]]> http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/24/googlephone-disappoints/feed/ Laughing in adversity… http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/23/laughing-in-adversity/ http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/23/laughing-in-adversity/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:09:40 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=135 Firstly this nifty bit of photoshopping celebrating the coupling of Lloyds TSB + Halifax

And this little beauty on the might of the US dollar

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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?

]]> http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/23/aurora-loveliness/feed/ windows 7 and IE8…whatever http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/18/windows-7-and-ie8whatever/ http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/18/windows-7-and-ie8whatever/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:38:12 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=134 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 !

Then a little further research brought me to Aurora from Mozilla Labs…just delicious use of interface, component manipulation, semantic and relevance clustering in the FS and data sharing and manipulation between users in real time. Hope the UK BB environment evolves to be able to support this sort of interaction !

]]> http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/18/windows-7-and-ie8whatever/feed/ You’ll be a man my son… http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/16/youll-be-a-man-my-son/ http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/16/youll-be-a-man-my-son/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:25:47 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=133 “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.”

Or….alternatively you could just grab a buddy and amid the hand-wringing, woe is us media frenzy infront of Lehman Brothers snog the crap out of your buddy on live US TV….good job guys. Made me laugh in the midst of a tough day.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/16/cnn_broadcast/

]]> http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/16/youll-be-a-man-my-son/feed/ tempting…very tempting ! http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/13/temptingverytempting/ http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/13/temptingverytempting/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:24:59 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=132 This further education opportunity will come in very useful at project kick-off meetings and pitching sessions !

‘…you don’t need to see our project plan’

‘…these aren’t the requirements you’re looking for!’

‘..go about your business’

]]> http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/13/temptingverytempting/feed/ A new meaning to “Breakfast News” http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/12/a-new-meaning-to-breakfast-news/ http://www.boardmad.com/2008/09/12/a-new-meaning-to-breakfast-news/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:22:04 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=131 I must have one !??

net-talking toaster

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