Mar 01 2009
The BCC hosted a “secret” and surprise gig for U2 where they played on the roof of the BBC Broadcasting House on Regents Street in London. I heard about it in the news and then watched it via the Red Button. It was only a few songs but it was awesome. Of course, you can catch it again on iPlayer (for those of you in the UK). Those who cannot get to iPlayer can watch the whole thing on YouTube. 
Feb 21 2009
If for some reason you are curious to know which DC (Domain Controller) you logged on to then all you need to do is use the LOGONSERVER environment variable. Of course this means your machine is already part of a domain.
The easiest way to see this will be to type the following in a cmd prompt:
echo %logonserver%
Jan 16 2009
Gartner has published CIO’s top 10 Technology priorities for 2009, which are:
Jan 04 2009
I always have been a huge fan of Screamer Radio and still cannot recommend it enough! There are a couple of other ways as well if you prefer that.
One is the new open source application called Songbird which is my choice for listening to Music. Songbird is from the same guys who wrote Firefox and the quality is pretty good. I particularly like the Lyrics add-on which displays lyrics of the song you are listening to. Another add-on can scrobble to Last.fm.
Another option is to use RadioBeta which uses Ajax and you need to have that window open in your browser. The search option is cool and it allows you to search for radios and themes that you otherwise won’t probably think of. One of the stations I like listening to is “All California Rock”. I think there is a lot of scope of improvement – maybe they should create an add-in for Songbird and allow on to view lyrics, etc.
Dec 28 2008
Live Writer’s new 2009 Release Candidate is available for download. I continue to be impressed by this editor and I cannot recommend it enough. 
Sep 24 2008
Interesting to see how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded; in addition to SimpleDB now they support Oracle and mySQL – this certainly ups the ante and will make it more enticing for Enterprises to hop onto this. I have been using S3 for a some time now where my WHS is backing up and have been quite pleased.
It will be interesting to see how Zurich responds with SQL Server. I wish I could say more.
Jul 21 2008
Guardian has an interesting story on how Bluetooth is being used to track people's movement in Bath. The concern is that the 10 or so scanners not only pick up your mobile's ID (which you have set) but can also pick up your Identity via your name. email and phone numbers. So think carefully before switching on your Bluetooth on the mobile!
May 31 2008
I think Snap Previews were a good idea earlier but now for me it has just started getting irritating and for my blog I have switched it off.
Jan 25 2008
Jan 20 2008
VMware Fusion is not new and I have been meaning to blog about it for a while but just not got around to it until now. If you only have used VPC (Virtual PC) or it's bigger cousin (Virtual Server) and never used one of the VMware products, wake up and smell the coffee and get ready to get blown away.
VMware Workstation for example is so much better than VPC and is not even in the same league. Looking at cars as an analogy, the VPC is a Ford Ka (who come's up with these names?) and the VMware Workstation is a Aston Martin DBS.
