Ever since Microsoft’s failed “briefcase” concept on Windows 3.1, it seems the whole world has been crying out for a better way to work on different computers. I’ve got USB sticks, VPN networks, shared network drives, a web based FTP and I even used Yahoo’s briefcase until they killed it off last year. So it was great to discover Dropbox this Christmas.
Dropbox is pretty much… Continue reading...
How many ways do you think we can find to break Google?
Let me start things off. I just found Google’s Internet Stats page:
Try to search for anything containing the word “internet” and the system just seems to hang. It was still hanging after I downloaded and upgraded my Wordpress installation.
One of my favourite charities is Oxfam. It’s only one that has managed to get a monthly payment out of me every month for the last decade. My father set up the first ever Oxfam shop in Hong Kong (Not the first shop… just the first in Hong Kong) and every month my payment is in his memory.
By contrast, I find myself heading to Pubcon next week in… Continue reading...
We are growing our office. We are not a large company, but we hope to be… so we had an extension built We then all moved into that, whilst the main office building was totally gutted. Even the second floor was rebuilt and the roof raised to meet modern day building regulations. Apparently we aren’t allowed to only employ dwarves any longer. It’s heightest.
Today I had a look… Continue reading...
I just had a bizarre online experience. It’s 10:50 pm on a Friday night. I just heard @randfish (who was at my table at a social occassion wedding a few weeks back) is going to present to the UN Secretary on Sunday. I was told that by @ciaranj, just after he told me that my new favourite program; Flash Forward was on TV.
I think it is about time to consider… Continue reading...
