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Monthly Archives: January 2007
The Delicious Library
What a wonderful software application this is ….used for storing and sharing information about your books, videos, DVD’s and games. It not only looks great, but the built in gadgets are excellent – you can scan in the barcode from … Continue reading
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Suppliers Wasting My Time
I think this is going to become a bit of a recurring theme on this blog – suppliers designing processes that ‘work’ for them, failing to note (or failing to care) that what they do wastes the time of the … Continue reading
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More Valet Parking Misery
I’ll keep this short and not so sweet – the Parc 55 hotel in San Francisco is vastly over-rated and not worth staying in at present. Apparently it used to be a Marriot but has just been taken over, I … Continue reading
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Holmes Place and Virgin Active
I was thinking of of commenting on how smoothly the acquisition of Holmes Place Gym by Virgin Active has gone……It has, in the main, but today I was not able to sign in to the Edinburgh gym with my new … Continue reading
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Identity and Supplier Management….
…..no i’m not going to rabbit on about XRI, Liberty, SXIP or any of those identity technologies that attempt to enable digital identities with some functionality; this is a far more practical issue that is troubling me. As i’ve mentioned, … Continue reading
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Personal Inflation Calculator
Here’s a nice new toy from UK Government – a personal inflation calculator. Perhaps i’ll now be able to see why my fixed personal expenditure increase feels like it bears no resemblance to the published 3% inflation figure.
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Yet Another Citizen Database Project
Here we go again, another leaked proposal from government attempting to justify building a huge great database of personal information. This one is supposedly about ‘improving access for citizens’, that almost takes us back to the old entitlement card proposal … Continue reading
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The Bike Industry
I just read this article saying that bike theft in London has increased by almost 30% in the last year 0 the fastest rise ever. This is hardly a surprise to me, i’ve had 4 bikes stolen in the last … Continue reading
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The iPhone
Yes, i’ll have one of those please – as soon as it becomes available. To be honest, i’d have bought one whether it was good, bad or in-different; thankfully what was shown at the launch looks to be pretty good. … Continue reading
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London Congestion Charging – A Little Bit of Madness
I’ve just encountered a little bit of madness buried within the London Congestion charging rules, a shame because otherwise the scheme seems broadly okay. Or to put it another way, it does nothing to reduce volume on the roads so … Continue reading
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