Semi-regular web-link clearance – last of Feb 2009

Productivity Meter Tracks Your Computer Usage (Lifehacker Australia)

Windows only: Productivity Meter is a time tracking tool from Fruitful Time, makers of the task manager we reviewed earlier this year.

Once installed the software sits in the background and keeps tabs on your activity. Productivity Meter tracks the active versus idle time, how your [...]

Important Information on the Household Stimulus Package

This year, taxpayers will receive an Household Stimulus Package. This is a very exciting new program that I will explain using the Q and A format:

Q.   What is an Household Stimulus Package? A.    It is money that the federal government will send to Taxpayers.

Q.   Where will the government get this [...]

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Now I remember why I dislike the Palm Treo

My favourite PDA, ever, would be a tie between the HP Ipaq 5450 and the Palm Treo 650.

Today, I’ll talk about the Palm Treo.

It was small, was a GSM-capable phone, and ran a colour version of the Palm operating system.

It had surprisingly few flaws, in fact only two that I [...]

Lotus Notes Mail Exporter

is a small program I’ve written to export attachments and emails from the Lotus Notes email client.

Now there are commercial programs which can do the same thing, but since I had a little time on my hands, I wrote LNME.  Learnt a bit about Lotus Notes programming at the same time.

It’s [...]

“We don’t ignore our customers”

But his boss had the last word. ‘You guys have a few things to learn. First, Rickover is the customer. We don’t ignore our customers. …’ – GE Engineer

Looking for the truth.

I’ve been doing a “Mary Webb”.  Mary, bless her heart, was a PC support technician, known for asking the same question, many times, of different people.  Hence the phrase, doing a Mary Webb

Mary would have been ideally suited working Service Discovery & Transition, the process where we take over support of something from [...]

What Lotus Notes email files I backup

Filename Why notes.ini the basic configuration document for Notes desktop5.dsk this file contains the configuration of your workspace or "desktop" names.nsf this is your LOCAL address book, the one that contains all of your personal contacts, location and connection documents any other .nsf these files would be local copies of databases (i.e. your [...]

If everyone’s a hero, the word has no meaning

… The other one that comes to mind is also the very first we did, called “Autopsy”, written by Larry Kaplow.  Absolutely exquisite.  It’s about a little girl suffering from a brain tumour, and everyone in the hospital constantly sings her praises as a brave little angel.  But House commits this absolute blasphemy of [...]

The HTC Touch Diamond – 5 things I don’t like about it.

It’s a darn sexy little thing.  I’ve carried one for the last week, and loath it. Here’s why.

User interface is sluggy.  The Apple iPhone sets the standard here, the Touch Diamond is a pale imitation. Battery life, two days if you are lucky. User interface is too complicated, and difficult to navigate. [...]