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Nov 24  09
SoftwareNo Comments

The more attentive amongst you will already be aware that I have been away on vacation with my wife and daughter for the last 8 days. WordPress, in particular the way it easily facilitates the scheduling of posts in advance, made it easy to keep all my blogs updated while I enjoyed a wonderful, and [...]

A very early and very short Christmas wish list

Oct 01  09
GiveawaysSoftware132 Comments

Google Wave is here. Yesterday Google sent out 100,000 Google Wave invitations to developers, a selection of interested parties who requested an invitation some time ago and, luckily for me, a number of people who use Google Apps. I use Google Apps. My wife uses Google Apps. Members of my extended family use Google Apps. [...]

Google Wave invitations

May 11  09
GTDReviewsSoftwareTips2 Comments

My recent Twitter success, which saw my account go from zero to over two thousand followers in under a week, has highlighted my ongoing need for a better email system. My audience is growing faster than ever before and my incoming email volume reflects this. Achieving Inbox Zero is, according to an ever growing number [...]

Powerful custom built Inbox Zero implementation

Jul 23  08
Software4 Comments

Picture the scene. Lake Garda, probably the most beautiful lake in the world. Along the banks are a number of boats for hire. Boat number six has been out on the lake for a long time, so long in fact that it is starting to rot and fall apart. The boat owner keeps shouting, in [...]

Come in number six your time is up

Apr 17  08
Software3 Comments

The open source movement, from WordPress to Linux and back again, has a strength that no closed organization or movement has or will ever have. I’m referring to community. I recently decided to install Linux on a Sony laptop. Sony’s engineers had locked the machine into it’s Windows centric ways so tightly that getting Linux [...]

The future is open source