That’s it. Enough procrastination. Finished. I will use Microsoft Outlook to manage my email, contacts, tasks and calendar at work. I will store work related and personal data in the same repository. I will not store any data on a Web based service. I will use Beyond Contacts (from DataViz) to synchronise my contacts, tasks and calendar to my aging but perfectly adequate monochrome Palm Vx. I will either use old fashioned paper and cheap biros from leading hotel chains (I would only lose an expensive moleskin and fountain pen) or the Palm to capture stuff when I am at home, in transit, in a hostelry or away from my work computer. ...

I am following, with interest, the progress of Stowe Boyd’s /Message blog as it gradually, inexorably climbs up the Technorati rankings. Excellent subject for a blog. Plenty of interesting, free material on a daily basis without any need for thought. So I have decided to follow suit albeit a little late in the day. Day 194. Technorati Rank: 235,668 (23 links from 12 sites) Tune in this time tomorrow to see the impact of my new black beret. ...

I have a Linksys Wireless Broadband router (WRT54G). I have a Linksys Wireless USB network adapter (WUSB54G). The adapter is located 15 feet from the router in clear line of sight. The strength of the signal is 70%. There is also a (unsecured) wireless network detected with a strength of 73%. Where is this wireless network ? In the ceiling directly above my head ?

No - not another ‘poem’ from an angst ridden, lovesick teenager listening to Joy Division and Morrissey. Two months after Christmas, I finally got around to playing ‘X&Y’ by Coldplay. As I suspected, this is pure dinner party music but the singles are pleasant enough on the radio when driving. Chris Martin seems well intentioned but there is something unsettling about his intentionally unkempt hair, his children’s names and the plethora of multi-coloured wrist and finger bands he wore at Live 8. ...

Important message to all you bloggers contemplating a migration to WordPress.com. Google has just launched Google Pages - a Web site builder with lots of ‘Looks’ and ‘Layouts’ available to choose from and a nice, friendly easy to use WYSIWYG interface. Like all Web 2.0 applications, it is still a beta version. However, this seems an odd product to launch in 2006. As Mark E. Smith once said ‘Are you still doing what you did 5 years ago - Yeah ? Well - don’t make a career out of it’. ...