OK, I admit it, I am a StumbleUpon addict… and I admit that you need to stumble through an awful lot of crap before you stumble upon a gem, but today I did just that!

There is a site called arc90 lab, which has put together several download-able experiments, one called Readability, [...]

OK, so this post has nothing at all to do with IT or technology….. or does it? The video below is powerful on a multitude of levels….

Powerful message — One Love… unite the world !
Powerful music — Who doesn’t like Bob Marley?
Powerful demonstration of collaboration — People from all over the world, singing and playing [...]

As you see from my Blog, I am a somewhat irregular Blogger (in whatever terms you care to define irregular). But sometimes you come across something that is so mindblowingly cool, that you are compelled to throw aside the blanket of procrastination and stand up and share your discovery with the world. This is one [...]

Remember the holographic, hand gesture computers used in the movie Minority Report? Well it turns out that the technology was more real that we believed. One of the co-founders of Oblong (see video below) was the science advisor for the flick and much of what we saw in the movie was [...]

One of the things that has consistently annoyed me about trying to set up a mutually agreeable time for a meeting, is the amount of back and forth emails and/or calendar counter proposals that are required. OK, it may be trifling to you, but it bugs the heck out of me.

So… to the rescue comes [...]

I was stumbing around the Net and I found this article on the Popular Mechanics web site of all places. It talks about an initiative to bring the information age to remote villages in 3rd world countries by using store and forward technology. Each village has a local server which store cached [...]

I stumbled upon the really cool web 2.0 scheduling tool, called Presdo. What’s so cool about this app is that it is simple and it does exactly what it says it does. It has a very simple Google-esque user interface, where, using natural language, you tell it what you want to schedule (ie: [...]

I have recently discovered a very cool product and felt I had to share it. It;s called VirtualBox and what it does is let you host a guest operating system within a Window on your computer. After an easy installation, it has a Wizard to walk you through setting up your first Virtual [...]

Well the big news this week is the acquisition of Business Objects (they don”t like it shortened to BO, but it’s just natural to do so) by ERP giant SAP. (SAP buys Business Objects) SAP paid dearly to get BO, $6.8 billion to be precise. The question is [...]

The venerable and well respected site CIO.COM has posted an article called “How to Say Goodbye to Spreadsheets“, which caught my eye. Having lived through the early years of spreadsheets, and having witnessed their evolution into a standard tool of business, I [...]