Monthly Archives: March 2011

Networks of ships

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

For a long time I worked in the shipping industry. It is a facinating business that has changed our world. For many people and places the changes of the last 40 years have been delivered by networks of ships not … Continue reading →

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Belkin UPS might have caused data loss

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Regular readers will know that I had to totally rebuild my Windows Home Server. I now suspect that the origin of the server crash was a UPS self test. My Belkin UPS battery is totally flat and does not keep … Continue reading →

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“Advice needed – how to persue one’s venture” on the London Android mailing list

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

Richard Green made an interesting post to the London Android User Group mailing list. Advice needed – how to persue one’s venture: – The London Android Group – Londroid (London, England) – Meetup. This got some great replies that I … Continue reading →

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Project Management Joke

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

Q. What’s the difference between a project management methodologist and a terrorist? A. You can negotiate with a terrorist.

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Windows Home Server reinstall disaster – use RAID next time

Posted on March 14, 2011 by

I am paranoid about backups. Until this week I was very fond of Windows Home Server which is Microsoft’s backup solution for the home. You simply put it on your network and every night it backs up your household computers … Continue reading →

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The future of the high street: near-field communication (Wired UK)

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

With near-field comms coming to Android in Gingerbread there will some interesting opportunities for app developers. Near-field communication payments are on the verge of rolling out into supermarkets, restaurants and shops across Britain, through your mobile phone. via The future … Continue reading →

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The semantic web on a platter – Google recipe search

Posted on March 4, 2011 by

The semantic web has made it to the mainstream in a rather surprising way. Recipe site owners have been marking up plain HTML pages with microformats that allow Google’s spider to understand the meaning of the content. This is much … Continue reading →

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Doctor-IT creates ElephantPM brand

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

Doctor-IT has created the ElephantPM brand to market its project management services. ElephantPM nows offers FogBugz and Kiln (Mercurial) installation and training in addition to hands on project management. Request to readers: To get ElephantPM into the Google index I … Continue reading →

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Joy reigns with AWS CloudFormation

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

Amazon’s relentless drive to make infrastructure management easier continues with their announcement of AWS CloudFormation. The big problem that ordinary people (well developers and techies anyway) have with cloudy stuff is that although it is easy to start-up one server, … Continue reading →

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