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Dangling Threads

Julian — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:18:10 +0000

I realise I have left a couple of threads dangling for a few weeks, in particular the Lean Programme Shaping and Architecture of Personal Knowledge Management.

: Image by litlnemo via Flickr

I do, though, have a great excuse – I’m just coming to end of my second week in an exciting new role, and all my spare “processor cycles” have been consumed in getting up to speed. I hope to revisit both topics in due course.

Test of Mindmanager Viewer plugin

Julian — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:51:00 +0000

Testing the ActiveX plugin for viewing Mindjet Mindmanager files in browser. This won’t work in Firefox unless the IE Tab add-in is loaded.

If you are using IE and have the viewer installed you should see a map here:

Although I would love to be able to post interactive maps on my blog, I’m really turned off by the ActiveX, IE-only nature of this approach. Yes, there is a workaround available for Firefox, but as that involves embedding an instance of IE in a Firefox tab, it’s no good for people who don’t like to even run IE on their machines. (or who don’t run on Windows)

Perhaps Mindjet should take a hint from the bubbl.us team (see previous post) and use a combination of Ajax and Flash for their viewer?

Thanks to ActivityOwner for pointing out how to use IE Tab with this plugin.

Some miscellaneous stuff

Julian — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:29:26 +0000

This place has been looking rather dormant – and I realised that I was sinking into a negative loop – the longer I didn’t write here, the harder it seemed to start. So consider this a metaphorical “get in there and do something”…

It’s not that I’ve not been busy – but a lot of that has been the sort of things I don’t write here (details of work stuff, and family life etc.) – and the things of which I might write have seemed so absorbing at the time that writing has not been on the agenda.

One thing that has been taking up a bit of time is a programming project to provide a web remote control to ITunes – [bliki]WebTunes[/bliki]. Unfortunately not much further than a proof of concept (spare time programming with something as complex as .Net is far from efficient!), but I might post some code if anyone is interested.

The other thing that has led to a few late nights is “looking for dead people” as someone described it – a resurgent interest in some family history research. I’ve fairly reliably traced my paternal line (Elve) back to the early 1800′s, and one of my mother’s ancestors ( Micklewright) back to about 1820. There are significantly more sources online than when I last looked at this about five years ago, but again I’m coming to the point where I can see a need to track down some primary sources – and that was where I lost steam before!

A few online resources that I have found useful in different ways: ancestry.com, Genes Reunited and FamilySearch.org.

I shall stop now whilst I’m ahead.

Keeping Your Options Open

Julian — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:40:11 +0000

“Extreme Programming and the Economics of Flexibility”:http://www.favaro.net/john/home/publications/xpecon.pdf [PDF] via “Agile Business Coach”:http://abc.truemesh.com/

Da Vinci Notebooks

Julian — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:44:15 +0000

“Day-by-day Da Vinci”:http://www.interconnected.org/home/more/davinci Read the pages of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Notebooks by RSS, one at a time.
“Matt Webb”:http://www.interconnected.org/home/ via “LibrarianInBlack”:http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2004/06/davinci_noteboo.html

Long break

Julian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not been near the blog for a while – been catching up on reading, been out on my bike, playing with Python and generally haven’t felt like posting…. However did notice that the Guardian has an interview with Rageboy – “Rebel without a Pause”