It was a good day for Robert Kubica and BMW in Bahrain today as they achieved their first F1 Pole Position, and with some style. It was a great lap, hopefully he wasn’t running on fumes and can give the Ferrari’s and McLaren’s a good run tomorrow. I’ve got a huge amount of respect for […]
Author archives: Tom Basham
If I didn’t do IT, I’d love to do design
Guy’s like Gianluca Fallone make me wish I had enough talent to do design and illustration. No matter how much money I spend with Adobe, Autodesk, Wacom and whoever else I figure might help, nothing I finish ever turns out quite this good. Check out his site: http://www.gianlucafallone.com/ (This reminds me… I really must do […]
Group Policy Preferences
Back in the day I used to look after big desktop deployments both here at Atkins and a few other places. Managing large numbers of desktops is always a problem. There’s no doubt that managed desktops are A Good Thing(TM), but the tools available to do the job were always a bit harsh on either […]
Dashwire – Mobile Synchronisation
Spotted a nice new service over over on Jason Langridge’s Blog. Dashwire syncs Windows Mobile (and soon Symbian apparently) phones and PDA’s with a web service. I’ve only just signed up but it looks pretty cool. It runs a client on the device that syncs all your basic phone info (contacts, bookmarks, SMS’s etc) as […]
HP Does Cloud Infrastructure
Seeing as I’m involved in getting a new Data Centre at the moment this post over on ZDnet could my eye. Looks like HP is to target a ‘data centre as a service’ product at enterprise customers. I’ve heard bits about this for a few years now – HP account managers will bore you silly […]