Synergical Computer Control

Most people have probably seen pictures of people running a PC with multiple monitors. Giving them lots of desktop real estate. There are plenty of studies out there that point out the productivity benefits of this type of working. Seeing two sets of information at once can be really helpful, work in Dreamweaver on one screen and have your web page previewed in Firefox on another (yes I know Dreamweaver has a preview but nothing beats running it in a true web browser). The next step up from that is some one like me, I run two computers some of the time at home. I have my nice quick Windows box and then I have my flash iMac for fun. It can be quite useful at times to have multiple machines to use the processing power from as I am a constantly multi-tasking. With my two computers running I can use one to do do the processing for my day job while the other is still free to use for web surfing, blog posting, emailing and any other past time I might have. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: IT No Comments » May 2008

Getting Blacklisted for Employment

I don’t usually have a problem with people in authority recording more information about me, I’m not scared that giving them a copy of my DNA could lead to a problem. I would happily carry an ID card with me everywhere I went if needed (although I’m not completely for the idea of having to pay a stupendous amount but thats another story). I’m an innocent person, I have nothing to hide, after all its not like the information can be falsied by some one holding a grudge against me. Also, despite some recent blunders the data is usually pretty secure so it’s not as if there is much chance of someone getting hold of my DNA (and at this point in time what good would it do them there are no clones yet!*). I don’t even have a problem with having my background checked out by a prospective employer, I was going to be a teacher once upon a time so I have had a CRB check run on me. What I do have a problem with is a database were information can be submitted about an individual by an employer with no evidence to back it up. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: Miscellaneous No Comments » May 2008

Facebook in Reality

Anyone who has read my previous post The Facebook Addiction might think I dislike Facebook after this one. The BBC 3 program The Wall produced this little promo. Its cast in a comedic lighty but I feel the way it protrays Facebook is very true to life.

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Posted by Andy Posted in: Miscellaneous No Comments » May 2008

Browsing for fun on a slow day

So it’s a public holiday in here in England, a time when traditionally everyone goes out and gets pissed up just cause they have an extra day off this weekend. The majority of the population are either out in the pub all day or are busy recovering from the excesses of last night. The rest are probably engrossed in some form of DIY. Personally I’m bored out of my tiny mind to be quite frank and as I don’t feel like working on hacking a theme to make my blog match the rest of my site (any willing volunteers apply in the comments, I offer excellent payment term, i.e. I don’t pay you a bean but you do get your name displayed on my site with links to your own site for as long as I use the theme). Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: Miscellaneous No Comments » May 2008

Open Source and Human Perception

For a long time now I have always tended to use open source software where ever I can. I run my blog on wordpress, I use Firefox as my web browser, I use Open/Neo Office, I haven’t gone quite as far as running Linux on a PC I am using full time just yet but thats mainly because I am too lazy to set about learning another OS at the moment. One of the amazing things about the

http://www.speedy-b.com/open source movement is that for all the excellent solutions out there, the majority of mainstream IT is still done using paid for software. Be that the OS (Windows) or the other things (Microsoft Office) Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: IT No Comments » May 2008

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