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Office 2013 upgrade – red pill or blue pill?
The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red). Wikipedia about The Matrix movie I have to decide whether to upgrade to Office 2013. If I want my life to be easy I should just take the blue…
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A review of JavaScript drawing libraries for flowcharts, Gantt charts and timelines
Overview I manage my projects using my own ElephantPM project management methodology. This is a similar in many ways to PRINCE2 but is greatly simplified so that it is suitable for use by smaller organisations. My needs ElephantPM divides the Start-up stage into an analysis step and a planning step. During the analysis step it…
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A work-around for Samsung Galaxy S3 not being a drive on USB
I was distressed to find that when I connected my Samsung Galaxy S3 to my computer using a USB cable it did not appear as a disk drive. Android Jelly Bean 4.1 does not support USB Mass Storage Mode (UMS) instead of an UMS option, users will have to make use of MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)…
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How to build a 100 m skyscraper in 30 days
In the past I worked in project management in the construction industry and having seen the traditional process I find the idea of modular and factory building very attractive. Here is a video from a leading Chinese exponent. It is also a really interesting example of business model design. Mr Broad made air conditioning systems…
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Microsoft’s ARM blunder: 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA • The Register
I never understood the user proposition for Windows RT. This article explains why there isn’t one. Microsoft’s ARM blunder: 7 reasons why Windows RT was DOA • The Register.
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Why you should put an SSD in your laptop
I have an elderly Dell Studio 1558 running Windows 7 and the boot time is 2 mins 28 s and the time to complete the login and start-up applications was 4 mins 30s. It is well-known that start-up time increase as a system gets older. This is due to the accumulation of bad registry keys, poor drivers,…
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The future of printed books, Will Gutenburg laugh last
I am writing a book this year on the ElephantPM project management system and I am presently trying to decide whether it should be available as an eBook. This is an informative article, Will Gutenberg laugh last? It has been taken on faith by many, including your benighted scribe, that the future of book publishing…
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How to create a calendar table with hourly grain
Calendar Tables – Why You Need One. <credit: This section was copied from Made2Mentor> What is a Date (Calendar) Table? For the purposes of this article a Date Table is a dedicated table containing a single record for each day in a defined range. They include fields with descriptive attributes for each day such as…
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 16 years to get…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 