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Murder most not here
I have just watched an episode of "Lewis" with Caitlin and she was getting quite concerned that a murder hadn't occurred within the first few minutes and I started to speculate on the formula for occurrence of deaths in detective dramas. Having had some...

Posted 07 May 2007 22:52 by Robert

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What happened to the idealists?
Douglas Coupland's Jpod has been doing the rounds in the office of late. I enjoyed MicroSerfs, so approached Jpod with excitement. Frankly, I'm disappointed. It's not the writing - I 've enjoyed pretty much all of his books. It's not that the books are...

Posted 15 April 2007 14:20 by When software attacks!

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Analysing Active Directory
I think I've mentioned before how I've been updating our IT infrastructure. Company growth has meant a need for expanded services. Add to that new versions of SharePoint and Exchange, mix in a need to run virtual servers for development and you have a...

Posted 15 April 2007 13:56 by When software attacks!

Windows Home Server - something for my father
On Saturday I got the email telling me that I'd been accepted onto the Home Server Beta 2. I'm excited about this product in a way that I haven't been about new software solutions for a while. I've taken part in beta programmes before. I've been around...

Posted 19 February 2007 10:06 by When software attacks!

Vista Upgrade - attempts 4, success 0
I have yet to succeed in upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Each time it runs through to the completing upgrade phase, gets about halfway through that bit whereupon I get stuck in a reboot cycle. I have tried this now on three separate machines...

Posted 19 February 2007 09:49 by When software attacks!