Archive for March, 2005

Password protect Word and Excel documents

Need to password protect a Word or Excel document? Here’s how you do it...

Why companies fail

Some more reading material which I picked up from FT for when I have some time: Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus – Michael J. Roberto The Nature of Managerial Work – Henry Mintzberg Only the Paranoid Survive – Andrew Grove The...

SkypeIn

You can now download a new beta version (1.2) of Skype which adds a new service: SkypeIn, and opens Skype VoiceMail up for everyone to use. I have paid for SkypeOut, which I have used occassionally, but I’m not sure if I’m ready to pay for a SkypeIn service or for...

I, Rearrangement Servant

Must remember this for the next game of Scrabble I play Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant : anagrams, wordplay, creator, solver, finder, generator, crossword, transmogrify, pangram, shuffle, fun wordsmith.org/anagram/...

Clean up your BizTalk Messagebox

Some gold here. Posting by Lee on the proper way to clean up the BizTalk Messagebox, using msgbox_cleanup_logic.sql that comes with SP1. Must read for any BizTalk...

Wooden Laptop

*grin* .. Here’s something Ola should try … i?ve got an old dell laptop that?s having _lots_ of problems, so i?ve been waiting for some real inspiration (inspironation?) to tear the thing apart. as luck would have it, the other day i got a message from asbesto, who told me about...

What CEOs want from CIOs

I was reading an old issue of Computer Weekly and came across an interesting article written by David Taylor, author of The Naked Leader, a best-selling management book. One of the side panels listed the top 7 skills CEOs want from IT directors. Good advice for anyone wanting to push...

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