http://www.boardmad.com ...still mad for it ! Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:19:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Trying this evening to resurrect a much used and beloved Tosh Satellite Pro (the 480CDT model for you train spotters out there!)...Dug out the removable FDD and put the swappable CD drive into the caddy as #Ubuntu install was getting it's panties in a bunch about no fd0 allocation during ... http://www.boardmad.com/2010/01/09/ubuntu-on-an-old-old-old-laptop/ So I'm a recidivist blogger...full of good intentions and I tend to blog in fits and starts as the mood, inspiration and time to do it is available ! However in true New Year's resolution form I've signed up to Project52 a site that will maintain and track content updates and ... http://www.boardmad.com/2010/01/04/project52-a-new-beginning/ Well this has been some kind of a year ?! My nippers another year older, funnier, cheekier and I'm another year older and finally beginning to show/feel it I fear (must get the portrait in the attic spruced up!?) Looking forward to Christmas this year - the kids are getting old ... http://www.boardmad.com/2009/12/19/heading-into-2010/ Scottish head medicos are reporting a sharp rise in 'swine flu' related symptoms - some chat on the media that this is the long-forecasted second wave of the bug. I can well believe it...it stopped in and has decided to stay in the Brown household for the last few days. Not ... http://www.boardmad.com/2009/09/26/blechhh/ home, dinner, bath kids, walk dog, a glass of wine then the welcoming arms of orpheus...ahhhh http://www.boardmad.com/2009/09/07/tonight/ I have friends in Perth-shire have just opened their new shoot near Logiealmond. Visit their new site here to book a shoot...they can take up to 10 guns with shoots from 150 to 500 birds. www.logiegameshooting.com S http://www.boardmad.com/2009/04/20/roll-on-the-glorious-12th/ http://www.boardmad.com/2009/03/16/stop-failing-the-turing-test/ http://www.boardmad.com/2009/03/12/one-of-his-finest/ Knowledge can only be volunteered, it cannot be conscripted. We only know what we know when we need to know it. In the context of real need, few people will withhold their knowledge. Everything is fragmented. Tolerated failure imprints learning better than success. The way we know things is not the way we report we ... http://www.boardmad.com/2009/03/11/dave-snowdens-7-principles-of-knowledge-management/ THERE are two radically different tales doing the rounds about HSBC, Europe’s biggest lender by market value. The first says that HSBC, deep down, is still an emerging-markets operation run by rugged types who disdain the sorcery of modern finance. Under the temporary grip of an evil ... http://www.boardmad.com/2009/03/10/is-hsbc%e2%80%99s-177-billion-rights-issue-a-sign-of-weakness-or-of-strength/