Rob’s Digital Life

The NYT has a post on IBM stopping the counting of employees holidays. This is nothing new and I’m sure it’s the same in all the grown up companies, do you work and that’s what matters.

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CNN.com has a post about parents that get domains for their kids that are too young to type. The post talks about people choosing the child’s name based upon which domain is free.
We didn’t go that far but we have the domains for our kids so that when they are older they can have a [...]

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I’ve found the official corporate wiki in Orange which is fantastic news. I’ve setup an ID and waiting for a trial page, but it’s great news as it’s hosted properly and supported correctly.
The wiki is supported by a full document management system which is getting a major upgrade real soon which is also wonderful news [...]

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Jaiku adds instant messenger access, gtalk is supported yeah!

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I installed Ubuntu 6.06 desktop version a few days back on the trial box I got from the tech team and have playing without too much luck with the LAMP setup. So I decided to start afresh and install Ubuntu 6.06 server edition and select the LAMP option.
I then walked through the setup of the mysql [...]

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I can only assume you’ve been hiding under a rock if you’ve missed all the press on the new Nokia devices and the new Ovi (door) to music and games.
In amongst all that is the new N95, which has more ram 81mb, a bigger battery 1200mAh (currently 950mAh) and a bigger screen. All great improvements [...]

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The WomWorld team are running a virtual launch event inside jaiku to coincide with the real world event in London today. The new N95 looks pretty neat, looks like they (nokia) listened to all the comments from the bloggers as to what was wrong with it.

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have you noticed I’ve changed the favicon, it took about five mins. much happier now that the wp one has gone.

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I’ve been reading and watching the various posts and videos on how twitter is the new email and thinking about how and when to use twitter in the corporate world. We have corporate IM and it’s great for instant one on one communications but it doesn’t give you the same ‘what am I doing’ capability that twitter [...]

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I’ve been a little busy of late, we have some members of the family up to stay with us over the weekend and I’ve been down to Slough and back in a day, (385miles!)
However, I’ve had a chance to spend some more time with the n800 now and I’m still in between camps as to [...]

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Orange has threatened to spoil Nokia’s high-profile launch of its new music download service this week after warning that it will refuse to offer its flagship music handset to its 16 million customers in the UK unless the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer agrees to work with the operator to ensure that customer experience is paramount.

oh, [...]

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Our home PC is getting a bit long in the tooth and maybe it’s time to replace it. I’m sure I’ll ge the email “get a mac” but not sure which way to jump.
The PC starts making a strange noise and then pop it just goes off and you lose everything, which isn’t great. The [...]

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Having recently taken part in the beta testing of the new S60 Jaiku client I’d realised how easy it was for us, the beta testers to have a conversation with the developers or manufacturer of that product.
They read your emails, they respond to posts on the group hub and also read your jaiku’s too. They [...]

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OK, blogging via the n800 again today and typing geting still quicker, which is good.
The battery is finally throwing up low battery warnings, which is great news, thats 4 days of being on all the time.
checking emails via the client is turning out to be a painful experience, which is a shame. Something more push [...]

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I’ve not collected the PC from the tech team which I intend to turn into the server. I’m having the debate as to go LAMP or WAMP.
LAMP is the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PhP route with Ubuntu server edition or to got the WAMP, Windows, Apache etc. route.
I’ve got the security doc for Linux servers from [...]

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