This Bluehost powered blog is now FastCGI enabled. You may find the site faster but, then again, hyperlinks may return completely random articles. You will probably struggle to tell the difference. Which reminds me of a funny story… I am currently working in the North East on an ’escalation’. An ’escalation’ is characterised by frequent, lengthy conference calls with bi-hourly status updates, the phrases ‘high-profile’, ‘alternative technical solutions’, ‘severe degradation’, ‘impacting the bottom line’, ‘CIO visibility’, ‘options for the weekend’ and the perennial favourite: ‘any progress yet ?’ ...

I was wrong. I sincerely apologise. That wasn’t my worst nightmare at all. This is truly my worst nightmare.

On the face of it, the recent changes to the interface to Google Docs and Spreadsheets look trivial and superficial. Google’s official announcement is brief and understated but Google Blogoscoped hits the nail on the head (twice): ‘The file listing now resembles a more traditional view in the style of, say, Windows Explorer.’ …that ordinary mortals understand and are comfortable with. ‘Google D&S looks more and more like an office application.’ In fact, Google Docs looks and performs much better than the most popular office application. I recently upgraded three home PC’s to Office 2007. I think Microsoft Office is a superb suite of professional applications (Word, Excel, OneNote) and represents great value for money as £85 buys licenses for use on three separate PC’s. ...

Ten hours cooped up on a plane with facile excuses (‘just another 10 minutes’), no food and screaming babies for company. Love the cheerful musical score, the facial expressions and the way the video starts in daylight and ends in complete darkness.

No one ever asks me: ‘Hey, Norman - why haven’t you installed Movable Type 4 (beta) yet ?’ Well, I just did. The product is pretty impressive but I have invested too much time and effort in WordPress to switch blogging platforms.