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Skip 12

Well finally filled up Skip number 12 with the destroyed lean to, the shed and some god awful pagoda seating area thing that the previous old lady had in the garden. I am now officially knackered :)

Garden Destruction

‘Push’ is Like ‘Heroes,’ But With Way More Action | Film School Rejects | First Look

‘Push’ is Like ‘Heroes,’ But With Way More Action | Film School Rejects | First Look

Just caught this trailer on film school rejects. Looks quite good certainly better than some of the tat thats been released over the last few months. I've never really taken to Chris Evans though. Dakota Fanning's grown up :)

This leads me on Time is different in Hollywood. There's some kind of spatial distortion that means child stars grow up quickly, apart from Corey Feldman who has withstood the ravages of time (and copius drug abuse) as seen in the shots below



Lost Boys - One of the all time greats and released yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs ago



Lost Boys 2 - The Tribe -annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd he doesn't look any different. The film though is shocking ;) Tv budget straight to dvd pap, wierdly though the head vampire is Kiefer Sutherland's half brother - the producers must've wanted to keep it real. I'm thinking that since the LARGE HADRON COLLIDER is out of action for the next 8 months or so then CERN could do a lot worse than to set up shop in LA and start to investigate 'Hollywood Time'

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Odds and Sods for the world • The Register

Odds and Sods for the world • The Register


If you fancy a laugh (and i frequently do) then this is one of my favourites. The headlines make me laugh never mind the ACTUAL stories. Genius some of this stuff. And of course it all has an IT flavour............................so really its nearly work related :)

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Batman theme composer dies at 85 • The Register

Batman theme composer dies at 85 • The Register Everybody stand up and salute one of the all time greatest guys on the planet. This has to be up there with contributions to Mankind alongside Beethoven and Bach?? As a self confessed Batman fanatic (I still get all the titles monthly) this is sad news indeed

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Mindstorm Interactive Surface Solutions - Solutions

Mindstorm Interactive Surface Solutions - Solutions


Must remember to show this to Steve on Monday, I looked at this company in 2006 when they were selling the HelioDisplay they've obviously moved on since then :)

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Picasa Web Albums - Stroker - Poppy the Puppy

Picasa Web Albums - Stroker - Poppy the Puppy

Check out Poppy the Lhasa Apso the latest addition to the family :) she's a Tibetan Mountain Dog. A BIG dog in a small body :)

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Community Chest

Community Chest The guys working with my amigos from Unfrozenmind. Check them out for some serious mind expansion :) I've been hanging out with them in World of Warcraft for the past few weeks. The clans called 'First among Equals' if your interested. AND before you mock you want to check out the 'Serious Gaming' proposition

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Flock Post

This is my first post to Magicbullet using Flock

File Optimisation

I like the look of I-Logik



File optimisation of jpegs, word docs, powerpoints and assorted other goodness, can be run on your networks or on your individual machines, compression can save up to 60% in file size. I think we could use this on our corporate portal, it also has plugins for Outlook express. Tres bon

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Virtual Appliances

Virtual Appliances



I am planning to build up a stack of demonstrations around Open Source OS's and various tool that exist out there, and the best way of doing this? The free VMware Player and the concept of Virtual Appliances, check it out if you haven't already, pre built, certified machines.

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Meebo widgets

Well i have to say that the meebo widget has been a great success so far in providing expert help from our groups intranet site, however you gotta love this i got asked the following



"People have raised concerns that 'the meebo' could infect documents on the website with open source code"



I have pointed out that the widget is a Adobe Flash object and not 'Open Source' do we think that some general information sharing as to Open Source is required?



Answers on a postcard......................

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Performancing

These last two posts are using the performancing plugin for Firefox, very easy to use intuitive editor that allows me to post directly to my blogger account. I like tools that are easy and i have to hand all the time!!

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Meebo added for proactive chat

Well i've added a MeeboMe widget to the serviceofferings webpage as a means of proactively contacting users that visit our homepage. Will be an interesting experiment to also see how many people are actually looking at the site

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Adventures in Ubuntu

Well Day three has come and gone and i'm really enjoying the OS. Its smooth, quick, my laptop battery doesn't go down as quick. I'm most impressed by how easy the Open Office Suite is to use, i get emailed doc's and ppt's all the time to read and review and the interaction is seamless i can open, read, edit and save the documents and then send them all back using Microsoft's propietary formats. No one in CSC would know that they've been edited using Open Source software

Adventures in Ubuntu

Day 2
After using Sametime 7.5 and the Lotus Notes Web client, i decided to investigate WINE, this is an open source Binary compatability layer for linux that allows certain Windows programmes to be run natively in Linux, so as you can see, here's the proper Lotus notes client running on Ubuntu. Its all good!!

Adventures in Ubuntu

Adventures in Ubuntu.
Right i've decided to go Open Source, My IBM T42 is now dual boot and i'm running Windows XP (or rather i aim not too) and Ubuntu. So far Ubuntu is a doddle to install, nice friendly GUI, easier than Windows. I've decided to run this experiment for a month to see if i can do my job in the EIC without using Windows. I'm going to doc the trials and tribulations here. So far so good though, my machine now boots and turns on in seconds rather than minutes :) the main reason i'm attempting this is that i now have Corporate messaging systems in place that mean i don't have to rely on Microsoft. I've installed the Lotus samtime linux client and i'm using the web based Notes client. Linux HAVE released a notes client plugin but i'll doc that install later :)

Live Writer Post

First post to test the BETA of Windows Live Writer, see how it works

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