Sunday 29 November 2009 at 6:12 pm
One of those oddball ideas to map your computer desktop to your real desktop in terms of objects, stacks and moving things around -
Bumptop. Nice idea but I'm not entirely sure it will have anything other than novelty value.
Nifty online presentation tool -
Prezi. Put a new spin on your visuals.
I've got to rebuild my PC - still running the RC of Windows 7 - some of these tools look useful though -
Windows 7 Helper Applications.
Apart form the terrible colour the new
Pogoplug Mk2 looks like a remarkably cool gizmo.
Monday 16 November 2009 at 5:07 pm
A friend of mine recently returned from Finland where he was examining a PhD defence - the process is called a
Karonkka.
As well as getting decked out in a full-on tux & tails they actually had ceremonial swords to boot. How cool is that ?
Be sure to read Shauns other posts on the nature of research, patents, science and technology in New Zealand.
Thursday 05 November 2009 at 6:11 pm
Storagemojo has a fairly thorough dissection of the Gartner Business Model and the ZLT lawsuit against them in this article -
Gartner’s Magic Hydrant.
The Gartner Group and their various IT informational resource offerings are often quoted as gospel by IT management - it will be good to see them justify how they make the decisions they do, given that they appear to be having their cake and eating it.
