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• Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing

  Jeff Hawkins covers a lot in this 20 minute video, defining a brain theory that's easy to understand and, in my opinion, the most interesting rendition of how the brain functions that i've ever heard. He defines us as Prediction Machines, check... Posted Jun 01 2008, 09:15 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: General

• WorldWide Telescope

  Well, Cliff Hobbs has beat me to the post on the announcement that HP have snapped up EDS. Fair enough, considering Cliff works at EDS; It would have felt bad stealing his thunder so to speak ;-) So instead here's something I found today, Microsoft... Posted May 14 2008, 05:35 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: General, Microsoft

• Does it blend?

  In my iPhone not-a-review-but-kind-of-like-one , I said I'd blend my iPhone if Apple divorce the Generation 1 model from future firmware releases (due to Generation 2 iPhones about to come to market) ... well here's a list of things that Tom Dickson... Posted Feb 27 2008, 11:20 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: General

• What are the 14 greatest engineering challenges for the 21st century?

  Interesting article on the 14 greatest engineering challenges of the 21st Century Wonder how many of these will be put on the back-burner for the 22nd Century Secure Cyberspace sounds ominious ... Bring on that Virtual Reality! Talking of which I tried... Posted Feb 21 2008, 06:29 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: General

• Holiday all over ...

  Well, pretty much back in to my routine with the Maldives (Meedhupparu) becoming more and more of a distant memory ... Such an amazing holiday. No internet for 7 whole days, no newspapers or TV. Just dedicated to chilling out, diving, eating, suntanning... Posted Feb 17 2008, 08:41 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: General

• Holiday Time!

  First hot holiday of the year just around the corner! I'm almost packed, for a 7 day holiday to the Maldives. We fly this Sunday, with 12 a hour flight ahead of us. We leave late at night, so we should be able to get a good few hours of snoozing in... Posted Jan 24 2008, 11:33 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: General

• SnowSoftware - Snow License Manager for SMS

  Rod Trent over at MyITForum blogged about this , looks like quite a cool tool so wanted to reblog here. Snow License Manager automatically combines infrastructure information provided by Microsoft SMS® with information such as software contracts, purchased... Posted Jan 09 2008, 08:44 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: General, SMS2003, Technology

• Mikes little bundle of SMS'ness :>

  Congrats Michael ! SMS2005 ... Watch out, Microsoft may turn up at your door and offer you $$$ to buy that name, or issue you with a legal notice to cease and desist! I wonder if Sophia is going to operate... Posted Nov 10 2005, 11:50 AM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• History's Worst Software Bugs (sorted on fatality!)

  it's old news now, and has probably been linked here but heck, it made me chuckle: http://wired.com/news/technology/bugs/0,2924,69355,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 Posted Nov 09 2005, 06:55 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Windows Defender

  from SlashDot An anonymous reader writes "According to a report in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer," the Windows Defender name was already being used by an Australian developer, Adam Lyttle. His Windows... Posted Nov 09 2005, 06:52 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• More StArWaRs-ness!

  Star Wars Battlefront 2 is out! And yup, as I type it's installing it's bloated form on to my HDD (night on 4GB of space required, wow) ... i've got practically every star wars game ever released. One... Posted Oct 31 2005, 08:27 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Portable keyboard

  Holy cow! I so want one of these to try out! If anyone can send me one, pm me so I can give you my address! I promise to do a full write-up of it using the keyboard! If it's responsive enough, and works... Posted Oct 30 2005, 07:55 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Kaiser Chiefs

  Went to see the Kaiser Chiefs last night at the Brixton Academy . The venue is not very big, so with all those people crammed in, it got very hot. Fortunately when we got outside, well the weather is still... Posted Oct 27 2005, 10:48 AM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Skype Client - Security Bug

  If you use Skype, then you definately need to patch it ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/25/skype_vuln/ Posted Oct 26 2005, 12:55 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Matts article

  Great article Matt , nice one. Posted Oct 24 2005, 05:53 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• VMWare Player

  WOW! VMWare released VMWare Player . And a selection of VMW Guests to download from the VMWare Technology Network . Created by the likes of IBM, Novell, MySQL ... such a bold move, because it's all free... Posted Oct 21 2005, 11:06 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Long day ...

  Just got back from a day out at the Microsoft Reading campus for the UK Community Leaders meeting. Was fun meeting loads of new people, bit overwhelming trying to remember a torrent of new names and acronyms... Posted Oct 21 2005, 09:58 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Be nice to be able to go to Barcelona

  John , I'll be in Barcelona for the IT Forum '05 event ... http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx Be nice to meet up with some MyITForum'ers there so drop me an email if you... Posted Oct 16 2005, 01:40 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Rod's next post ...

  I have a feeling in my bones that Rod is going to Chimp. Aside from the phone I don't think he's chimped in a while? Go Go Go Rod ! Flame a Vendor! Posted Oct 05 2005, 05:14 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Doube agreed ... pay for news sites, fear them no more

  Rod Trent posted this earlier as a follow up on Johns posting about pay-for-news websites. Those sites, they annoy me silleh. But there is hope: www.bugmenot.com is quite a good site for circumventing... Posted Oct 03 2005, 05:32 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• The big red one ...

  On a nightshift this week, just one more day left then back to the old 9-5 routine. Great. I feel like I could easily slap on some makeup and join the horde in Land of the Dead! Anyways, Call of Duty 2... Posted Sep 30 2005, 07:34 AM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Sam is back ... and he's twice as serious

  Little something for you gaming-geeks that I spotted on BluesNews ... Gold - Serious Sam II [September 27, 2005, 11:15 am EDT] - 27 Comments Croteam announces that Serious Sam II is gold, and that the... Posted Sep 28 2005, 04:00 AM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Remedy Discovery Service for Microsoft SMS 2003

  A Hamson posted this on the MyITForum SMS2003 forum: http://www.remedy.com/integration/discovery.htm --- What is Remedy Discovery Service for Microsoft SMS 2003? Remedy has developed a packaged integration... Posted Sep 15 2005, 01:19 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• outrageous !

  this is definately not safe for work but fun ;-) http://www.contagiousclubwear.com/ i love this site ! Posted Sep 14 2005, 09:29 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Last week's womenintechnology networking event

  Maggie Berry from womenintechnology. Firstly let me say a big thank you from myself, my colleagues at womenintechnology and from my colleagues at McGregor Boyall to all of you that attended the womenintechnology... Posted Sep 14 2005, 08:35 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Geek Dinner

  Friend of mine is having a Geek Dinner in London. Any UK guys and gals on here that can make it, feel free to link up with Sarah: Hello people, Just thought I would let you all know about the Developer... Posted Sep 12 2005, 03:31 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• London Transport Police

  Yesterday was the wrap up of a pretty good week for me. Got some real satisfaction, closure, on several issues i'm dealing with at work. Why the subject: London Transport Police? Well I was stopped at... Posted Sep 10 2005, 11:10 AM by RobM with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: General

• My Weekend ...

  Another weekend of fun to blog out :> This time, met up with a nice lady early evening and and we headed to Brighton to wrap up Saturday night. We liked living the moment, and just turning up at places... Posted Sep 06 2005, 10:08 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Zen and the misuse of ASCII

  Life just throwns you a bone sometimes and instead of catching it, it hits you square on the head ... I just had a friendship with a girl go south. Essentially it was because I was begging for more, and... Posted Sep 06 2005, 03:05 PM by RobM with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Flexible\Rollable screens

  I so want one of these! Posted Sep 06 2005, 07:23 AM by RobM with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: General