Archive for the 'technology' Category
Breakdown in communication
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 6th May, 2008
Here’s a great post about how effective communication can be the only way a problem can be resolved. It’s a story about an issue with a server backup which took 11 hours to backup 19Gb of data. The morale of the story is in understanding how the problem wasn’t initially resolved because of lack of [...]
What’s that flashing light?
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 25th Apr, 2008
I always like learning about different types of technology. I was watching an old episode of Nip Tuck last week and one implement that was being used by the plastic surgeons was a flashing implement used to treat the skin. So I fired up my browser and tried to find out what it is.
Turns out [...]
The mobile web is very much alive (and kicking)
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 15th Apr, 2008
Some great debate today on ReadWriteWeb’s post asking whether the Mobile Web is still alive or not. It was very much in response to Russell Beattie’s throwing in the towel and Michael Mace’s pronouncing Mobile Apps dead.
What’s interesting about the post is the comment thread that follows, where a number of people debate this [...]
Industry Specific Terminology
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 12th Apr, 2008
It’s quite interesting how different industries establish specific vocabularies. It’s quite useful for people operating in that space as it help accelerate understanding between parties, however it can also be pretty daunting for external parties who aren’t familiar with those words.
Sounds familiar? Well, I’m not talking about computers this time, but about contact lenses. [...]
Application Virtualisation
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 8th Apr, 2008
I came across a great post on Adam Hall’s blog talking about aspects of application virtualisation. I’ve only come across this recently to tell you the truth, with the rollout of SoftGrid here at IOMG, and have been pretty impressed with what the package achieves.
So what is application virtualisation you may ask? It’s a process [...]
FON-enabled highrise buildings
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 28th Mar, 2008
Reading the FON Blog, I’m seeing that they have finally managed to deploy FON across an entire high-rise building, in the Continental Diamond Plaza in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. If you’ve never come across FON before, it’s a WiFi community where users share their Wifi, in exchange for free Wifi when they come in the [...]
Turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Mar, 2008
Here’s a cool idea. Thanks to new software from Tap Root Systems, you can now turn your phone into a Wifi hotpot, assuming you have the right model of phone and a phone that supports 3G and has WiFi capabilities. You end up using your phone as a proxy sharing your HSDPA or EVDO connection [...]
I lost my horse on Craigslist
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 26th Mar, 2008
It was quite amusing (well, not for the person concerned) to hear that someone had been the victim of a prank on Craigslist where somone put up an ad in Craigslist saying he was leaving town and all his possessions were up for grabs. The poor victim got home to find 30 people ransacking his [...]
BCS Talk: Manx Telecom Next Generation Network
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 19th Mar, 2008
If you’re on the Isle of Man, the BCS is organising a talk tomorrow about the new Next-Generation Network currently being rolled out across the Island by Manx Telecom. Here’s a bit more about it.
The network will be one of the first fully converged ALL-IP networks in the world. It will be able to offer [...]
Visualising Twitter
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 14th Mar, 2008
I came across a great post today that talk about 17 ways to visualise your (and other people’s) network in Twitter. People’s connections are public (who they follow and who’s following them), so there’s a wealth of data that can be used in a pretty interesting fashion. If you click on the thumbnail in this [...]
Do you Twitter? What is it, you say?
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 6th Mar, 2008
I came across a brilliant video clip that explains what Twitter is in plain English:
I love the simplicity of the video, especially as it has been particularly tricky explaining to people just why I’ve found Twitter so useful. The video is a starting point really, and doesn’t go into why Twitter has such a lasting [...]
WordPress turning social ..
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 5th Mar, 2008
It was only yesterday that Hyder mentioned BuddyPress to me, which is a set of plugins that turns Wordpress into a fully fledged social networking website. Today, I’ve just read that Andy Peatling, the person behind BuddyPress has just joined Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, WordPress MU, bbPress and Akismet. It signals that WordPress will probably have [...]
Grab something to watch with Graboid
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 26th Feb, 2008
Here’s a service I’m just about to try. Graboid Video is an application that lets you stream video straight off Usenet servers all over the world. There’s a huge collection of videos, TV shows and anything you want to watch. As the video is downloaded off Usenet, it’s supposed to be the fastest download around [...]
Talk to me - thanks to Google Talkback
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 26th Feb, 2008
I’ve just added a Google Chatback button to this blog, which you can see on the top of the right-hand sidebar, which allows readers on my blog to page me and have a chat, if they are so inclined. It’s a new feature that has just been announced by Google and seems to be the [...]
LED - lightbulbs of tomorrow
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 23rd Feb, 2008
Don’t you hate it when you know technology is moving on, but hasn’t yet got to the point you’d like it to be? This post relates to some lights that I just bought for our kitchen. We currently have 8 50W halogen lights (GU10) in our kitchen, but within a couple of days 4 of [...]
