With all the recent virtualisation launches from MS (App-V 4.5 and Hyper-V Server 2008) I’ve been doing a bit more reading on the subject over the last few days. I’ve always used various flavours of VMWare in the past so I thought I’d better catch up with whats going on on the MS side of …
Author archives: Tom Basham
A Better Place
I’ve been meaning to write something about this for a while since I read about it in Wired. Better Place is a company formed by ex-SAP product chief Shai Agassi, it’s mission is to end the worlds dependence on fossil fuels for transport. No small objectives there then. To be honest I’d never heard of …
Digital magazines… the wrong format?
Over the past few months I’ve noticed a crop of new Internet based, and digitally published magazines like Road and Drivers Republic. Being a bit of a petrolhead generally new car websites are a good thing… but for some reason these new online magazines haven’t really clicked with me and I’ve not really been sure …
Fantastic picture
For a while now NASA have been twittering from the Phoenix lander on Mars – well someone on earth posts in the first person on the lander’s behalf! Earlier today MarsPhoenix posted up this fantastic picture on TwitPic of a self-shot from an Astronaut: Those guys are always posting up great stuff, if you’re on …
Posterous
Thanks to Guy Kawasaki I just signed up to Posterous. It’s a pretty good idea, the site allows you to email in text, documents, music, images or video which it then posts up onto a blog. What’s more it can then cross post the new blog onto twitter, flickr, wordpress etc. It seems to work …