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I’ve been playing with Stikkit recently.  It’s a free on-line organiser.  I like the fact that it is smart about interpreting what you type.  If you write ” -meet with paul next Tuesday 10am” then it automatically recognises it as a meeting, adds it to the calendar and links it to your contact called “paul”.  Neat.

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The scotedublogs.org.uk site now has a wiki incorporated into it. It uses MediaWiki, which was an easy install, but unfortunately I’m having a hard time trying to adapt the look of the Wiki to blend in with the rest of the site. I’ve got it looking fine in Firefox, Konqueror, Opera and Safari and IE7. IE6 refuses to play ball though. The existing CSS already has a separate IE6 hack file, and I can’t work out how to make it fix my new layout (8000px centered) the way it fixed the old one (full screen).

If anyone thinks they might be able to help, please let me know

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Dell have apparently always claimed that there is “no customer demand” for Linux to be pre-installed on their machines.

It’ll be hard for them to claim that now:

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/19/2212213 

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In the bright new world of Web2.0, we are all both consumers and producers. I’ve been thinking today about how the two relate to each other. Time for a graph:

I’d like to spend all my time on-line in the “head down” and “I’m on fire!” zones - reading blogs, writing posts, posting comments, sending emails, coding cool applications, doing school preparation…

Unfortunately, I seem to spend much more time in the “Web1.0″ zone - mindlessly trawling around blogs, my feed reader, checking email, being vaguely inspired but not actually producing anything… and I guess I’m not alone in this.

How do we get the balance right? Without consuming the Web I wouldn’t be producing many of the interesting things that I’m involved with now, but there are times when I feel like I might have produced a whole lot more if I’d just left the computer switched off!

Do you feel like you’ve got the balance right?

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We came across this vintage bit of electronics today, whilst doing some early spring cleaning:

This handy intercom works perfectly, and has a cable about 10m long. It’s an awesome retro toy, ideal for re-enacting Moneypenny scenes from Bond, or Reggie Perrin moments!

I thought I’d try to find out something about it on the Web, but have drawn a complete blank. I can’t even find any reference to “Eagle Products” as purveyors of quality electronic office goods. Most disappointing

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