Archive for September, 2009

Looking for an Excel password?

Have you ever had a password-protected Excel document that needed opening up? It happened to me a couple of years ago. I worked for a company that used an Excel sheet in a shared folder to store passwords to different websites that the company had accounts on. One of the...

Excalibur Almaz in the Isle of Man

Today I got the opportunity to check out a space vehicle, which is probably the closest I’ve ever been to something that could make it’s way out of the hold of Earth’s gravity. It was the Almaz capsule being deployed by Excalibur Almaz as part of their foray into space...

Can grooming help your career?

Did you know that your appearance can have a drastic effect on your career? Well, Gillette recently commissioned a survey of 500 Human Resources professionals (using Harris Interactive to perform the study) to find out how a person’s grooming affects their interviews and career prospects. You can read all about...

Surely, 140 chars must be enough …

@bigcheeser pointed me at a most excellent video this morning that brings out the humour that 140 characters can get you entrapped in. Enjoy … Excellent stuff by @zemoga and @wiltonbound, I’m...

Welcome to Micro-Vlogging

Here’s an interesting website I picked up today: It’s a website called robo.to that lets people create 4-second soundless clips of anything they wish. Granted, most of them seem to be people staring into their cameras wondering what’s going on, but you can see the potential behind it. There are...

The personal touch

I don’t know if you’re anything like me but I feel that a personal touch can make all the difference. You know, instead of receiving email or mail from a faceless organisation, it’s nice to receive personal correspondence from someone who’s trying to get a message across to you. It’s...

Playing with HomePlug technology

So a few days ago I received a set of Homeplugs I purchased from eBay and this is the weekend to play with them. If you’re unfamiliar with the technology, it allows you to propagate your home network over your electricity supply; which means you can turn every power socket...

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