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    Entry to "news" on JDJ

    Posted against http://www.sys-con.com/Java/articlenews.cfm?id=2094 "manage the secure distribution and monetization of digital content" Meaning what? Ensuring people pay for content and can't copy it? "Monetization", is it any wonder most of us hate

    Comments (0) . Friday, 27 June 2003

    Mind Maps, using colour in Outlook

    Just been going back to using mind maps (MindManager) to compress lots of complex information into a small space. Have a go, its at http://www.mindjet.com. I needed to summarise our team's work for our new manager and managed to get it all on one pag

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 26 June 2003

    Bring me the docking station of Alfredo Garcia

    Well, J's docking station finally recycled after 5 weeks. Still got N's hiding away on a spare desk. Went to the Crosby coast guard last night for a chat about what they do and so forth. Pretty interesting evening. Having my usual hate relationship

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 25 June 2003

    Text of email sent to BBC's PM and Today programmes

    I am becoming extremely irritated by the lack of discussion about the education funding mess since it was first raised some months ago. Why aren't you asking some questions about it? Why has it been forgotten? Weapons of mass destruction is an inter

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 24 June 2003

    Lost weekends and stuff

    37 Practices of a Buddha's Child Went to a teaching from my Dharma teacher on this text. It's amazing how so short a text can hide so much information. The whole of the philosophical sweep, including the refutation of the mind-only schools, is in th

    Comments (1) . Tuesday, 24 June 2003

    Death, Laptops, Depression and one taste

    Death Some friends lost their son (24!) in a road traffic accident on the M6. What can you do or say but be there? Laptops Never change your laptop without expecting to lose at least 3 days. Everything almost there now except I can't get my Palm m

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 18 June 2003

    Monday over, things a' changing

    Well then, well then. Went to the Everyman to see a prouction by Broads with Swords who are an all-female company that do lots sword fighting and so on. The play was about Shakespeare's female characters always killing themselves and Tara Loft (sic

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 10 June 2003

    Bugs, hair cuts, no end to the excitement

    Changed something - unit tested it and surrounding code. Sometimes things work and sometimes they don't, desk test the code, it works. Chop out driving queries and replace variables with constants, they work. Still the view I'm trying to get working

    Comments (0) . Friday, 6 June 2003

    Grinder grinder, burning bright

    Posts Posted a note on the Today noticeboard saying that I was tired of the blanket coverage of WoMaD on the news and wanted the incompetent, innumerate education secretary to be grilled on why my kid's school has been forced to make all of the clas

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 5 June 2003

    Sacrificial Lambs, Holidays and Schtuff

    Lambing We aren't doing as well as we hoped so 3 of my IT colleagues were sacrificed to keep the shareholders happy. One of them is the best manager I have ever worked for. We didn't know he was going until the rumour mill told us late in the aftern

    Comments (0) . Monday, 2 June 2003