Mobile Broadband – Hot and Bothered

October 16, 2008

I recently took delivery of a T-Mobile Web’n Walk Stick III.  This useful gadget looks a bit like a USB memory stick, albeit one a little on the large side, and gives me high speed Internet access via T-Mobile’s 3G network in the UK.  A little probing reveals that under the covers it’s actually a [...]

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Drawing pictures for your presentations

October 12, 2008

Back in February this year, I was asked to give a presentation about a project I was working on.  The presentation needed some diagrams in it to depict graphically how the project was going to achieve the client’s business goals.  Since things were at an early stage, the situation was not yet well understood, but [...]

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Automatic links postings from Delicious. Annoying?

October 6, 2008

Judging from the massive take-up of the feature, I sometimes think that I must be the only person in the world who thinks that automated blog postings full of people’s bookmarks on delicious.com are really annoying.  A lot of people who do this are excellent writers, producing content I love to read.  It’s always a  disappointment [...]

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Strengths Finder 2.0

September 29, 2008

Visiting the most excellent Ian Hughes last week, I spotted a book called Strengths Finder 2.0 on a table. Ian explained to me that the book, along with an online evaluation tool, form a program to help identify personal strengths.  This immediately resonated with me, as it intersects with a long running train of thought [...]

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What’s it for?

September 20, 2008

When I hear people raving excitedly about a new social networking thing, I always go and look, just because I love these things.  I love connecting with other people, and finding things in common.  I just do, and always have.  Recently, though, I’ve started to notice a problem. When I arrive at a new site, [...]

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Rethinking the Presentation – Updated

September 9, 2008

I’ve given Rethinking the Presentation a hefty tweak.  I have excised the end part, which was a discussion of what helpful stuff is around on the Internet and in books.  It suddenly hit me that this information was a prime candidate for a document, rather than a wordy five minutes on the end of the [...]

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