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A8: Mind Mapping for Effective Content Management

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I’m currently in Aberdeen at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008 conference, blogging this during a presentation by someone at JISC. Because you can do that at a geeky conference without it looking rude!
There are currently about 30 delegates (including one of the […]

So … it would appear that the new Apple iPhone 3G was launched today. (That’s obviously not a photo of the new Apple iPhone 3G above, or even the old one. That’s my O2 Xda Orbit running Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.)
I didn’t know that until today. Until I started reading folks’ posts (called […]

The new version of ZoneAlarm Pro (version 7.0.483.000) now resides happily alongside Microsoft Update KB951748.
I wasn’t online last night otherwise I’d have seen the HUGE number of comments on my last post about the merry dance that the latest Microsoft Update KB951748 caused for ZoneAlarm users: Microsoft Update KB951748 and ZoneAlarm woes. Thanks for all […]

Here’s a lesson that I’ve recently learned, that I wanted to kindly share with you.
If you’ve just cancelled a Web hosting account with, say WebFusion, and you want to set up Web Forwarding in your — let’s say — 123-Reg account to point to a new blog you’ve created at — picking one at complete […]

Update: There is now a fix for this issue, see my blog post: Fix for MS Update KB951748 and ZoneAlarm.
Well, that was a quick break from blogging! Actually, it was my experience with Windows Update and the ZoneAlarm firewall today that’s brought me out from my self-imposed blogging exile this week.
I’ll cut to the […]

It’s just as well that my organization skills are honed because I’ve been seriously short of time these last couple of weeks. I’m considering putting in for a transfer to Mercury, whose length of day is 58.646 Earth days.
At the moment, as you probably know, I’m part of a two-person Web team. We’re […]

A presentation by the JRuby Guys (Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo) at Scotland on Rails.
This is a post that I’ve had sitting in my WordPress drafts since early April about the Scotland on Rails conference that I attended, actually the same weekend that Jane and I discovered that she was pregnant … so that made […]