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Hormel leverage the Python relationship :-) as reported by the Boston Herald

Why are meetings so boring?

Death by Powerpoint, most of us have been guilty of this one: Why are meetings so boring?. These days I do try to avoid falling into the trap either as a presenter or attendee ;-)

Novel map generation...

Track where I've been... World66 

Create your own visited country map or write about it on the open travel guide

Search Google via SMS

I wondered when they'd introduce this option; Google SMS, today, it seems.

GMail as a FileSystem...

The Gmail 'utilities' keep appearing GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem. Also liggmail opens up some fun tricks!

Weta Workshop's cycles for rent...

Burn cycles down on PeterJackson's farm.

The supercomputer itself comprises 504 IBM blade servers, each of which contains two 2.8 Gigahertz Intel Xeon processors, 6 Gigabytes of memory and 40 Gigabytes of storage. They are adding more blades.

More evidence of Call Centre failings

Telephone call centre service often poor, Citizens Advice report shows

W2K Fail

Oops! For assistance dial.....

Unlucky for some....

Sorry wrong number

Blogger & Pics

Google acquire Picasa, and promptly gives the product away. It'll be interesting to see how they develop this stream.

Even you can be hacked

This report on Globetechnology, a Canadian news site, raises the interesting discussion 'user responsibility'.....

Customers hang up on overseas call centres

A report back in May, in the Daily Telegraph, implies the tide might be on the turn against the constant outsourcing of call centres overseas.

Sony gets out of PDAs, at least outside of Japan

It's a sign that convergence between PDA & phone continues to get ever closer as Sony pulls out of PDAs

Time to jump into DVD Recorders?

The Panasonic DMR-E95H DVD recorder features 160GB Hard Drive, TV Guide On Screen EPG, DV Input, SD and PCMCIA Slots. Read more here from Panasonic. Hmmm....UK availability & price?

Google Groups : comp.sys.palm.pilot

This Beta initiative by Google could open up usenet to a wider audience. Here's a an link Google Groups : comp.sys.palm.pilot. Follow the syntax in that URL example to reach other groups with your RSS reader (my reader of choice is  FeedDemon). Google's feed format is Atom.

A test to checking out the new features

This item should allow comments to be made

No more little pricks

First lapel communicators, now BioMed Central have filled one of McCoy's needs.

"Bridge to Captain Kirk!"

"Bridge to Captain Kirk!",  Vocera Communications Products make 'lapel comms' a reality :)

Dominate a fowl

...you know you want to... Subservientchicken, why being vegetarian might be good for you.

New Google Labs Toys

Two new toys from Google Labs to play with to keep you coming back.

Microsoft's aggressive search plans revealed

Microsoft's aggressive search plans revealed

News aggregation for Web logs and a social-networking service are on the table, executives say. Relentless assimilation of the desktop continues.

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso

Google Deskbar

Another essential part of my desktop the Google Deskbar. How long before MS has similar, or buys Google?