In the days before the Palm Pilot, being a bleeding edge, hip kind of guy, I had a Psion organiser. And a Filofax. And to tell the truth, I used the Filofax much more than the Psion. It was easy to scribble in cramped places, using odd stumps of pencil. It was reasonably easy to find a phone number...

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… will be resumed as soon as possible.

My iBook is mended. It was a genuine fault. I’m happy. More later (possibly much later).

No posts for a couple of days because I've lost control of my iDisk. A colleague is working on a project that requires her to send the designer lots of big image files, around 50Mb each. An obvious case for a simple FTP drop-box, read only, from which the designer could suck the files. Indeed, I mys...

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Not an entirely fair title, I grant, but I may be experienced the first pangs of remorse after an on-going fling with open source software. The task has been to implement an image bank on my work website, in spare time and with no money. Clearly a job for open source. The site itself runs on Nucleus, which really is a rather good open source content management system. ¹ And some Nucleus enthusiasts have implemented a kind of photoblog on their sites. But I need much more functionality than those seem to offer.

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Two gizmos, one manufacturer, one winner, one loser. The winner is the drop-dead gorgeous PowerMate controller from Griffin. It just works, leaving me wondering what I used to do without it. The loser, Griffin's iTrip. And the fault lies not with Griffin but with the vastly overcrowded airwaves here in Rome.

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