Archive for the 'general' Category
Redbridge Council: Open Source or not?
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 22nd Jan, 2008
An interesting news article landed on my desk this morning, talking about Redbridge Council’s ground breaking new website. There’s a video you can watch all about the benefits the council and it’s citizens are enjoying, but the bit that caught my eye was the statement:
The council is keen to make “Redbridge i” features available to [...]
Windows Live Writer
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 24th Sep, 2007
I’ve just downloaded Windows Live Writer (which is now on version 12). I had tried it out in the past and stopped using it (though I don’t remember why). I might just try and use it again and see how I get on. I particularly like the way you can save draft posts and post [...]
Blogging hits the screens
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 13th Sep, 2007
It’s interesting to see that there is now a TV series where blogging is one of the main elements. Gossip Girl on The CW is a series premiering in a few days created by Josh Schwartz, (same bloke who created The O.C.). The format is narrated by a seemingly omniscient character, “Gossip Girl” (narrated by [...]
101 Conversion Utilities
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 10th Sep, 2007
The other day I had a frustrating situation where someone sent me an email with a .r file attached. I had no idea what this was and none of the applications I had installed would recognise it. It turned out to be a “resource” file which was pretty specific, but it did raise the issue [...]
Help Rob help kids in Palestine
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 30th Aug, 2007
Rob Grigg, a friend and ex-colleague from Conchango is going to by cycling from London to Paris for a charitable cause and has launched an appeal to raise some funds. Here are the details:
I will be cycling 190 miles from London to Paris on September 14th - 16th with 14 colleagues from work in support [...]
Lies, Darned Lies and Web Stats
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 14th Aug, 2007
Interesting post on TechCrunch today about how Alexa thinks that YouTube is more popular than Google. According to Alexa, who use their toolbar to measure popularity of various websites around the web, YouTube has more page hits than Google does. However, everyone know that this just isn’t the case. It’s just that the numbers can [...]
Microsoft New Technologies
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 28th Jul, 2007
I popped by Andy James’ blog today (it has been ages since I’ve been there) and picked up some good links to some new stuff hitting the street (Andy is good like that). Here’s some honey:
BizTalk Architects group on FaceBook
BizTalk HotRod Magazine Issue 2
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
BizTalk Labs
Pub/Sub with low latency
Thanks Andy, loads to [...]
Like footprints in the sand ..
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 9th Jul, 2007
I popped down to Marketing Pilgrim this morning to get my daily dose of Internet news as it has become one of the places I always stop off and was greated with this:
Seems like the site is down for maintenance; or maybe their changing hosting provider; or maybe something more sinister has occured. I’ll be [...]
VB.Net tip
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 26th Jun, 2007
Some of you might have noticed that there’s less “low-down-dirty” coding related posts on this blog of late. It’s probably because my job role has become more business-driven, change-agenty, people-focused as of late. However, I’ll take a break from the posts on Management Strategy, Debt Negotiation, Risk and Segmentation and drop a coding titbit that [...]
What’s your carbon footprint?
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 5th May, 2007
There’s lots of talk around at the moment about carbon emissions and trying to make people responsible for their carbon footprint. There are a number of factors that influence someone’s carbon footprint, which is basically the amount of carbon dioxide they generate. If this worries you, I’ve come across 20 ways in which you can [...]
Outlook 2007 Signature
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 11th Apr, 2007
Office 2007 has some nice features, it really does. However there are some things missing (or maybe I just haven’t found where they are). One of these is the ability to edit your Outlook signature in an external editor. I was bemoaning this fact when I came across a post? on ComputerZen? that explain exactly [...]
Press Release: DVDPlay New Movies Widget
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 11th Apr, 2007
Interesting Press Release by DVDPlay who are using a competition to promote a brand-spanking new widget to try and attract new customers to their website. The incentive? Run the wiget for the next couple of months and you’re in a chance to win an Apple iPhone or a Nintendo Wii. Personally I think it clashes [...]
Press Release: Affordable Quality Web Site Design Is Now Available
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 6th Apr, 2007
Owning a website doesn’t have to cost you the Earth. I learnt this some time ago when I started working with a web design company. They were literally charging thousands of pounds a day to build a website, while if you have the skills, you can do the same work for next to nothing. Don’t [...]
Promote your blog
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 23rd Mar, 2007
One way to get your blog noticed is to have a popular blog link to yours. And this is what Andy Beal is offering on his latest post on the Marketing Pilgrim. He’s looking for new blogs to read and asking for people to give him a link to their RSS feed. He will subscribe [...]
Becoming a US citizen?
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 22nd Mar, 2007
There was a time when I was trying to get some work in the US and had actually gone as far as to get an H1b Visa. I never actually made it there, but if I had one thing I would have been looking at was how to Apply for US Citizenship Online. It is [...]
