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Where are all the phones?

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 9:01 PM by stevecla01
  [image credit: http://www.payphone-project.com ] Surprising stat I read in this months edition of Wired UK – the number of phone booths remaining in Manhattan? 4…wow 4!!! I suppose that shows the scale of the mobile phone epidemic but I was surprised Read More...
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Datacenter in a suitcase

Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 12:25 PM by stevecla01
Datacenters are all the rage at the moment – here is one I found in a suitcase earlier today. Not by the side of the road though, I found it on Dave Ohara’s blog. This suitcase packs a datacenter punch though with two servers running dual-core, 2.5 GHz Read More...
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How Starbucks won me back

Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:42 AM by stevecla01
Simple – I clearly value good Wi-Fi over good coffee. Well, sometimes. I signed up to the Free Wi-Fi scheme with Starbucks last week when I had a few hours in the City and needed wifi. I could have gone to Caffe Nero who serve up the best high street Read More...
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Hammering a flexible screen

Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:27 PM by stevecla01
When I show the Microsoft 2019 video I often get asked how realistic some of the technology is – in particular things like the digital newspaper that is shown. Well, they’re not as far away as you may think and whilst some of the examples in that video Read More...
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The original IBM Think pad

Posted Saturday, October 03, 2009 11:50 PM by stevecla01
The original IBM Think pad…apparently these pads were issued at IBM years back and you can now buy a replica (not leather sadly) from the IBM logo store courtesy of A Continuous Lean tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/10/03/the-original-ibm-think-pad.aspx'; Read More...
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Stuff you need to know

Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:43 PM by stevecla01
I always wondered how a sewing machine worked. Now I know…if I could have something similar for internal combustion engine and vinyl records that’d be great. thanks.. courtesy of swissmiss tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/09/30/stuff-you-need-to-know.aspx'; Read More...
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The best 404 ever?

Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:58 PM by stevecla01
  Clever – courtesy of Give Up Internet tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/09/05/the-best-404-ever.aspx'; tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; Read More...
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Coffee and cables

Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:28 PM by stevecla01
I took this a while back whilst squatting in an office on our Redmond campus. The worlds shortest Ethernet cable. What would you use something of this length for? Routing? tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/09/02/coffee-and-cables.aspx'; Read More...
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Geek Marketing

Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 12:57 PM by stevecla01
3 years on this is still a great post by John Dodds on geek technical marketing. It’s no surprise it’s his most popular post but I wonder how many have sent it around to their friends and colleagues saying this is how things should be but never actually Read More...
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Geek etiquette

Posted Friday, August 07, 2009 4:15 PM by stevecla01
Just a fun photo more than anything. From Wired’s New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans . Specifically, Can I talk on the phone while taking a whiz? No, you can't talk on the phone! Do you want the guy next to you to hear your entire conversation? That's Read More...
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Blazing fast SSD Express card

Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:44 AM by stevecla01
This is the most techie thing I’ve posted in a while but just to show I’m keeping my hand in should the help desk need my support, I’m actually quite chuffed with myself at placing an order for this new SSD Express card. It’s from Filemate and will replace Read More...
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Knowledge: the new networking

Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:15 PM by stevecla01
“Seriously, knowledge is power” – so says Wired in Balance Your Media Diet , part of the New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans in their current US edition. It made me think about my media diet which is a mix of PC based, mobile and paper based (my TV is Read More...
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How Much Is A Petabyte?

Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 10:47 AM by stevecla01
  Have you ever wondered how much a Petabyte really is? Yep, me too….at least once a day. Now you can visualise it courtesy of The Mozy Blog and get a sense of why Google and Microsoft are building vast vast datacenters. To store all of your petabytes. Read More...
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Time switch wall clock

Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:19 PM by stevecla01
  I like the Time switch Wall clock though think it would be cooler if it timed how long a switch had been on rather than just showing the time. tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla'; Read More...
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Cash Stash keychain

Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 7:35 PM by stevecla01
The cash stash keychain from Firebox . A snip for runners, cyclists etc at £5 hat tip to LikeCool tweetmeme_source = 'stevecla'; Read More...
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