Monday 24 November 2003

Mac v PC - The debate goes on Yahoo technology news has a nice little article on the total cost of ownership (TCO) of Macs and PCs. And the conclusion? What conclusion. If you reached a conclusion the debate would have to end and then where would we be? [Yahoo! News - Technology] 1:16:59 PM    comment []  Google It!

That Downing Street Conversation in full So why did George Bush want the Tube shut down while he was in London? Perhaps the answer is in this conversation overheard between Dubya and Tony Blair. (This only makes sense/is funny if you've seen A Fish Called Wanda) And I say this to you George. Aristotle was not Belgian, the central tenet of Bhuddism is not Every Man For Himself and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes George. Cherie looked them up. 12:51:35 PM    comment []  Google It!

Back from London Well I'm back. You probably didn't realise I was away. Well I was. I flew out last Wednesday evening to London, osetensibly to attend Mac Expo. The show wasn't bad. I made a few contacts that may prove useful in the future. Filemaker launched its new Meeting and Task Management applications. Although strictly speaking they aren't applications as you need Filemaker to run them. I had a nice chat with the company's European Regional Manager. Creo also launched its Tokens software that allows users to exchange file using a peer-to-peer approach. The person sending the files drag-n-drops them onto a token creator and then e-mails the token to the recipient. The recipient then drops the token onto the Token Redeemer, the two computers then talk to one another and the files are transferred. I also ran into Dennis O'Connell from CompuB who was doing great business from his stand. Dennis always seems to do well at MacExpo. I also ran into a number of other ClubMac members, Tom Hayes, Jonathon Blackmore (from Tipperary), David Walsh and Stephen Doherty were all there. On Friday afternoon I left the show early and headed down to Tottenham Court Road to buy a travel charger and a memory expansion card for my Palm. I also popped into Forbidden Planet to find it had moved to Shaftsbury Avenue. The new store looks nice and still has a lot more books than the Dublin one. I picked up copies of Chris Priest's The Separation, Dan Simmons' Ilium and Alastair Reynolds' Absolution Gap. Saturday I went shopping for clothes at High & Mighty and to Hamleys for Christmas presents for my niece. I also paid a visit to Harrods. The crowds at the latter two were horrendous and I was glad to get out. Unofortunately, on my way back to High and Mighty to pick up the clothes I'd bought, I lost my hat. I know I had it when I left Harrods but as I was walking out of Edgware Road tube station I realised I didn't have it. OK, some may say, it's just a hat. But this wan't any old hat. This was Jonjo O'Dowd's hat. Jonjo died of cancer about two years ago and we found his hat when we were clearing out his flat. I kept it and a few other things as mementos so I really feel bad about losing it. 11:14:13 AM    comment []  Google It!

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