Archive for June, 2006
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Outsourcing going a little sour?
This article covers some details about outsourcing issues, poor quality of staff and unfulfilled promises of cost savings.
I still stick to the theory that Software Development is hard enough without the do-ers being on the opposite side of the globe to those who want the software.
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Telstra and land line ‘erosion’
Readers with exceptional memories, or at least, nothing else going on in their lives may remember my rant about Telstra a few weeks/months ago.
Basically, after a bad experience with a Bigpond support person, I finally decided to leave Telstra and radically reorganise ourphone/internet.
So, instead of paying Telstra around $400 a month for mobiles, home phones [...]
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
IE 7 is stable…. (so far)
I take it all back.
I found some reference on Google to Microsoft Release Notes which commented that Google had fixed the Google Desktop problem that caused IE 7 to crash when opening a new tab.
So, I upgraded Google Desktop and now (cross fingers) IE 7 seems stable, certainly a couple of sites where it constantly [...]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Office 2007 beta 2 (And other MS Betas)
Well, I got an email a couple of days ago inviting me (and I suspect, most of the known world) to download Office 2007.
What an interesting package!
Firstly, Word, Excel and Powerpoint have undergone significant make overs - the result are applications which put the most useful things in the application right in front of you [...]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Harriet has passed away…
That right, the world oldest animal in captivity, believed to have been brought to Australia by Charles Darwin has passed away.
If you are a fan of natural selection then you should doff your hat to the old girl today…
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Is the game over????
Oh my god??!?
What the hell just happened…. red cards, hugs for the ref, disallowed goals… and then a game which just …. stopped!!
Beyond bizzare!
BUT WE ARE THROUGH TO THE ROUND OF 16!!!
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
10 men all, 1 minute and 10 seconds remaining….
Still 2 - all.
Two red cards in 5 minutes, one to each side..
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Goooooooooooallll
And I was just hitting ‘Publish’ and waiting for the page to reload, and we scored!
Its 2 -2l. 12 minutes remaining
This real time blogging is tiring
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
I will be so grumpy….
Its 74 minutes into the Croatia v Australia and Croatia is up 2 - 1.
Its beyond frustrating, given we have been all over them for much of the game.
But I’m starting to wonder, do the Socceroos need luck to win? Shot after shot after shot goes wide, is hit softly etc etc.
That and the constant [...]
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
The next great IT project failure awaits…
IBM has just won a 495 million dollar project to ‘do stuff’ to integrate everything.
Other members of the tender include Siebel, Tibco and Microsoft.
So, with all that money, and all those major vendors - this project should wind up in the paper a year or so from now when it is over budget, over schedule [...]
