Making Outlook a *bit* more like GMail

Posted April 8th, 2008 in www by alex

The threaded view on GMail is just genuis. I don’t know how long exactly email has been around for, but it’s longer than I have – and only GMail seems to have gotten the interface right.

Not just the correct threading of emails, but threading the conversation – both the incoming and the outgoing emails all together. In one place.

So, since I’m forced to use Outlook at work, how can it be hacked about a bit to make it ‘work’ better for me?

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BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed

Posted April 8th, 2008 in www by alex

Interesting story developing between the BBC and ISPs over the iPlayer, and the amount of bandwidth which it may end up consuming..
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18 minutes with an agile mind

Posted April 1st, 2008 in fun stuff by alex

TED – some of the talks from the annual conference are ok. Some are pretty good. Some of them will make you sit back in wonder. For me – this is one of those from the last category.

You want to know about the future? – go ask a kindergarden teacher, because they know.

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