Archive for August, 2006

A sensible alternative to business travel

Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Financial Times management columnist Lucy Kellaway described a revolutionary way to change business travel in her insightful and witty article "A sensible alternative to business travel" (if you don’t have FT subscription - read full version here).

After describing all the horrors of business travel in modern times, Ms.Kellaway explains the real reason for business travel - "There is one big thing that keeps business people orbiting the earth - and that is escape. [...] Office life has become such a dysfunctional mess of meetings and  interruptions that the best hope of a decent day’s work is to be found in a metal chamber 30,000ft above the world’s surface."

Comments from practically all of my colleagues have totally confirmed the real reason for the business travel. Airplane seems to be the only place to reply to your emails, review documents or do some other productive work.  The only alternative up to this day has been booking a meeting with yourself.

So I won’t be surprised if soon we’ll see the ads of "virtual airlines" :)

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Using Ubuntu on Dell Inspiron 9100 - part 2

Monday, August 7th, 2006

I wrote about my first experiences with Ubuntu last year. It was fun to try it, but then I had to do some work and just continued using Windows.

So when I was told by a colleague that there’s new Ubuntu release - 6.06 LTS aka Dapper Drake available I decided to give it another go. And here’s what happened.

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Lifeblog removed the fear of filing - Martin Geddes

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Martin Geddes writes in Skype Journal about Nokia N70 in "Full marks, at least on paper"  and about a future desktop clients ideas in

"From little seeds do great ideas grow" and makes a couple of remarks about Lifeblog that correlate with my own thoughts on the subject:

[...]
Digital imaging takes away the “click anxiety”, and Lifeblog’s removed the fear of filing.

[...]
Having played with Nokia Lifeblog 2.0 for a while, I think this is kind
of a transformative moment for how we interact with the last category.
It’s still at the Mosaic-like stage of development (go read your
browser wars history), but it’s useable. I look forward to the Windows
Explorer paradigm going the way of MS-DOS.

Thank you, Martin!

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