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Problem with iTunes 5 and D-Link DSL-G604T

I’ve been having a problem with DNS failures on my home setup for the last week or so. So, it would appear, have a lot of other people with similar setups, and it turns out to be the fault of Apple who introduced a version of Bonjour into iTunes for Windows version 5. D-Link have published [...]

Appliances as small pieces loosely joined

Fascinating series of posts by Leslie Michael Orchard applying the principles of "small pieces loosely joined" to computing hardware and appliances.

A life where Tivo has always existed

A life where TiVo has always existed is a great example of how subsequent generations take for granted technology that was new and strange not long ago. [via The Shifted Librarian]

A Travel Guide To Collaboration

Great article on the why of business collaboration from CIO.com. [via Tris Hussey] Technorati Tags Organisations, Technology

Disruptive Technology - BBC News Wiki Proxy

New media activist Stef Magdalinski has produced a great example of the way new technologies allow people to interact with broadcasters in different ways - the News Online wikiproxy

A couple of tools

As requested by various people at Blogwalk, details of a couple of content tools I use / am investigating

The Lure of Slide Rules

Over at “Davos Newbies”:http://www.davosnewbies.com/ Lance Knobel is writing about “the lure of the slide rule”:http://www.davosnewbies.com/2004/07/08#theLureOfTheSlideRule: bq. “Those of us who love slide rules are by definition not Luddites. It’s the tactile nature of the technology that excites, rather than a revulsion against the technologies that replaced it. There were gains provided by electronic calculators. Our [...]

Enterprise Architecture

On Monday this week I sent myself on a one day course from "Architecting The Enterprise":http://www.architecting-the-enterprise.com/ - a management introduction to the "TOGAF":http://www.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf/ enterprise architecture framework.

Strange CSS bug in Mozilla Firefox

Weird CSS bug in Firefox

iSociety Report on Technology in UK workplaces

Recent iSociety report on the state of IT in UK industry.

Learning XML / XSLT / XPATH

Learning XPATH etc

Mind-mapping for projects and Wikis

Almost 4 years after I wrote this post, a very similar idea emerges spontaneously over at ActivityOwner, with the difference that he has actually produced the first iteration of a tool to do the export... Using a commercial mind-mapping tool for project start-up (amongst other things)

The Neighbourhood

Use of GeoURL to find the neighbours

Links on FOAF and RDF

Links about FOAF and RDF

The Law of Leaky Abstractions

"learn how to do it manually first, then use the wizzy tool to save time"

Bluetooth Luggage

Bluetooth-enabled luggage

PHP Blogroll

Added Phil Ringnalda’s PHP blogroll to the site. Technorati Tags Site_News, Technology

Some useful web/RSS related sites

Share website content with ASPRSS SkippingDotNet XML-RPC programming with ZOPE Technorati Tags Technology

So what is an application?

Jon Udell picks up on Peter Drayton asking the question “What is an application” and expands our thinking by asking an obvious question - (having set up an anti-spam inbox rule in Outlook) ..I don’t see a quick way to transfer this behavior to Larry’s instance of Outlook. The Outlook rules, when exported, are binary, [...]

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