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Just found out that "Subtle Emphasis" style is a "character style" layered on top of another...

2015-08-21T09:46:00.001+08:00

Just found out that "Subtle Emphasis" style is a "character style" layered on top of another Word "paragraph style" and not a style on its own. Unfortunately they don't surface this aspect of the Word mental model (or domain model) in the UI commands.

Word 2010 styles don't change

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Just love this tweet. It happens so often. Clients feel that the requirement is self-evident...

2015-08-21T08:46:00.001+08:00

Just love this tweet. It happens so often. Clients feel that the requirement is self-evident until asked to explain the details. Then they realize its not so simple as first thought.

Channing Walton on Twitter: "“It's a heisenrequirement. We know exactly what it is until we ask for details.”"

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Seven times faster than SSDs in 2016. Yes I'd like to have that technology available. Promising...

2015-08-19T11:38:00.001+08:00

Seven times faster than SSDs in 2016. Yes I'd like to have that technology available. Promising stuff.

Intel's insanely fast 3D XPoint technology hitting high-speed 'Optane' SSDs next year

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Google's flatbuffers looks like a very promising serialization library to have in your toolkit.

2015-08-03T09:26:00.001+08:00

Google's flatbuffers looks like a very promising serialization library to have in your toolkit.

Improving Facebook's performance on Android with FlatBuffers

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A new hope for mobile holography....

2015-08-02T12:00:00.001+08:00

A new hope for mobile holography....

LEIA - 3D Mobile Holography

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Auto-focusing glasses. A game changer if they can get it going as a commercially viable product.

2015-07-10T07:46:00.001+08:00

Auto-focusing glasses. A game changer if they can get it going as a commercially viable product.

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I'm curious about and looking forward to this blog series "Neck Pain: The Neck Owner's Manual".

2015-07-06T08:07:00.003+08:00

I'm curious about and looking forward to this blog series "Neck Pain: The Neck Owner's Manual".

Neck Pain: The Neck Owner's Manual -Regenexx®

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Impressive looking kanban board. However check out the comment by Mr Anderson:

2015-07-06T08:07:00.001+08:00

Impressive looking kanban board. However check out the comment by Mr Anderson:
The priority triangle is a nice idea for lower maturity organizations that lack discipline and need physical space to enforce a WIP limit.
Burn!

Introducing The Arrow Kanban Board

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This pain relief tech sounds promising. Note the early stage comment: "That early risky stage....

2015-07-05T10:12:00.001+08:00

This pain relief tech sounds promising. Note the early stage comment: "That early risky stage. That's when you need government support because investors won't come in ... we want to see more things get out and over the valley of death."

Novartis buys Queensland drug developer Spinifex for $US200m plus

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Another strategic buy/investment for the future of computing ui. Intel-Recon, Omek; Facebook-Ocul...

2015-06-20T09:34:00.001+08:00

Another strategic buy/investment for the future of computing ui. Intel-Recon, Omek; Facebook-Oculus; Apple-Primesense, Google-Magic Leap. Our lives are going to change massively again.

Intel Acquires Recon Instruments

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Australia Post are replacing their Mail2Day service with one where you have to install an app on...

2015-06-15T13:58:00.001+08:00

Australia Post are replacing their Mail2Day service with one where you have to install an app on a smart phone or tablet. Sneaky way of forcing customers to have an Aus post presence in their life. The only way of conveniently being informed if I have snail mail in the PO Box is to ensure they have a direct notification link to a personal device. I even ended up putting the post app on the front screen so I don't miss the fact that snail mail is present without physically checking for it.

Now I know I'm being manipulated. From their perspective, its totally understandable but as a user I'm ever so slightly miffed.

Mail2Day® alerting service - Australia Post

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Big news. Makes sense together with the Primesense purchase. The "giants" are positioning...

2015-06-09T11:07:00.001+08:00

Big news. Makes sense together with the Primesense purchase. The "giants" are positioning themselves for Augmented Reality product offerings.

Apple Acquires Augmented Reality Company Metaio | TechCrunch

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Interesting discussion on the Vive VR headset.

2015-03-31T11:52:00.001+08:00

Interesting discussion on the Vive VR headset.

Rev VR Podcast (Ep.99): Discussing the HTC Vive with Developers Jon Hibbins and Nick Pittom - Road to VR

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I went to post about the Rpi2 and Win 10 and I swear the blog post was different. It was still...

2015-02-13T09:18:00.001+08:00

I went to post about the Rpi2 and Win 10 and I swear the blog post was different. It was still cached on the reader on my ipad and this is an excerpt of what has changed i.e. a screenshot of an rpi2 running a Windows 10 app. Maybe Scott jumped the gun by a Hanselminute? :)

I like the directions Microsoft are going with their anticipated product range. Its an uphill battle with the new computing landscape.

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Looking forward to Windows 10's broader reach. There's a lot of negativity about with Windows 8...

2015-02-13T09:17:00.001+08:00

Looking forward to Windows 10's broader reach. There's a lot of negativity about with Windows 8 hybrid app/desktop attempt. I think there's value there and want Microsoft to pull it off in terms of wider spread adoption this time around.

The new Raspberry Pi 2 will run Windows 10 and run Universal Apps - Scott Hanselman

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Good move by Box. It can be done by third party software, but the extra licensing and technical...

2015-02-12T10:45:00.001+08:00

Good move by Box. It can be done by third party software, but the extra licensing and technical complexity of a virtual drive approach. Hopefully the encryption/decryption is done as the box client communicates with their servers instead of on the fly with a virtual drive approach.

Box is launching encryption keys that only you will hold

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Playing with a $US130 quad core Intel atom PC with battery backup. Here it is running Windows...

2015-02-03T09:59:00.001+08:00

Playing with a $US130 quad core Intel atom PC with battery backup. Here it is running Windows 8.1 on battery with just a hdmi cable plugged in.

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Immutability changes everything!

2015-01-30T17:18:00.001+08:00

Immutability changes everything!

- "We need immutability to coordinate at a distance and we can afford immutability, as storage gets cheaper."

- "App over Immutable Data: Record Facts then Derive"

- "Append-Only Computing"

- "Accountants Don’t Use Erasers"

- "Widely Sharing Immutable Files Is Safe"

- "Designs are driving towards immutability. We need immutability

to coordinate at ever increasing distances. We can afford

immutability given room to store data for a long time. Versioning

gives us a changing view of things while the underlying data is

expressed with new contents bound to a unique identifier."

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Awesome talk from David Holz from Leap Motion. He quoted Arthur C Clarke: "If I was going to...

2015-01-23T10:13:00.001+08:00

Awesome talk from David Holz from Leap Motion. He quoted Arthur C Clarke: "If I was going to tell you exactly what was going to happen, I would sound pretty crazy. So if I don't sound a little bit crazy there's no chance I'm going to be right about anything."

Quote from David: "It will happen"

Its inevitable... a natural progress of the computer user interface and highly disruptive to existing industries. The problem is that we're so used to vendor hype cycles that the industry doesn't see the massive industry changes coming until its all in full swing.

I'm particularly excited by the Dragonfly code name leap motion device mentioned in the video. RGB-IR sensors (presumably on the same chip?).

Image Sensors World: Leap Motion CTO on Future Human-Machine Interfaces

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This Italian policy is an interesting way to support IP commercialization within the country....

2015-01-22T16:08:00.001+08:00

This Italian policy is an interesting way to support IP commercialization within the country. The only problem with any of these sort of government driven mechanisms is they either get over complicated by the need to control abuse of the schemes or the government or their agents end up "choosing the winners".

Italy implements patent box regime to support IP commercialisation - Griffith Hack

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Microsoft has publicly entered the Augment Reality product space with their HoloLens product....

2015-01-22T09:40:00.001+08:00

Microsoft has publicly entered the Augment Reality product space with their HoloLens product. Nay sayers are going to compare this to Google Glass. However it seems people seem to "mix concerns". The primary concern with google glass with its use in "the public space". There are plenty of more use cases for this technology than in public scenarios.

Microsoft announces Windows Holographic with HoloLens headset

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Zuckerberg: "The future of computing is augmented reality: distraction-free, heads-up communicati...

2015-01-16T09:35:00.001+08:00

Zuckerberg: "The future of computing is augmented reality: distraction-free, heads-up communication". Its the second part of the quote that's the important aspect and I think people undervalue. I see the backlash against Google glass as analogous to the backlash against mobile phones in the eighties.

Augmented reality is far more important than current industry pundits give it credit. My view of the future tech is:

a) big ass fixed screens in fixed location scenarios where sharing is common e.g. home, office, meeting rooms.

b) Augmented reality in any mobile scenario e.g. replacing the phone UI, vehicle heads up display dashboards.

c) Virtual Reality in any scenario where there's a significant advantage in total immersion.

So long term, I think the smart phone will be replaced by some sort of variation of smart glasses. Crazy huh? I think there's even an argument that smart glasses will replace the laptop. Double crazy ay?

Zuckerberg's 3 predictions for what social networks will look like in 10 years

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A visual gom jabbar equivalent using augmented reality for hands. Freaky.

2015-01-09T18:19:00.001+08:00

A visual gom jabbar equivalent using augmented reality for hands. Freaky.

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I got something very similar to this Atom hdmi stick from Aliexpress this week. A few notes and...

2015-01-07T17:50:00.001+08:00

I got something very similar to this Atom hdmi stick from Aliexpress this week. A few notes and gotchas:

a) It only came with 16GB. Windows 8.1 takes up 10GB but then there’s a 4GB recovery partition which only leaves 2GB for data/additional programs. The Intel one mentioned says it has 32GB storage.

b) I thought it would come with the free Windows 8.1 for Bing pre-installed like another vendor I’ve received gear from. It instead has Windows 8.1 Standard which I had to use one of my own activation keys on. They must have not registered/negotiated with Microsoft to have the free Windows with Bing installed on sub $US200 hardware.

c) It does run warm – not hot but warm. You don’t touch it but it would be interesting to see its lifetime running warm.

Intel's Compute Stick is a $149 Windows PC to go - The Tech Report

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In this visual summary, there appears to be a consistent view of sysadmins by the other roles ;)

2015-01-07T07:58:00.001+08:00

In this visual summary, there appears to be a consistent view of sysadmins by the other roles ;)

Chris Graham on Twitter

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Apolon's Software Torq

Just found out that "Subtle Emphasis" style is a "character style" layered on top of another...

Just love this tweet. It happens so often. Clients feel that the requirement is self-evident...

Seven times faster than SSDs in 2016. Yes I'd like to have that technology available. Promising...

Google's flatbuffers looks like a very promising serialization library to have in your toolkit.﻿

A new hope for mobile holography....﻿

Auto-focusing glasses. A game changer if they can get it going as a commercially viable product.﻿

I'm curious about and looking forward to this blog series "Neck Pain: The Neck Owner's Manual".﻿

Impressive looking kanban board. However check out the comment by Mr Anderson:

This pain relief tech sounds promising. Note the early stage comment: "That early risky stage....

Another strategic buy/investment for the future of computing ui. Intel-Recon, Omek; Facebook-Ocul...

Australia Post are replacing their Mail2Day service with one where you have to install an app on...

Big news. Makes sense together with the Primesense purchase. The "giants" are positioning...

Interesting discussion on the Vive VR headset.﻿

I went to post about the Rpi2 and Win 10 and I swear the blog post was different. It was still...

Looking forward to Windows 10's broader reach. There's a lot of negativity about with Windows 8...

Good move by Box. It can be done by third party software, but the extra licensing and technical...

Playing with a $US130 quad core Intel atom PC with battery backup. Here it is running Windows...

Immutability changes everything!

Awesome talk from David Holz from Leap Motion. He quoted Arthur C Clarke: "If I was going to...

This Italian policy is an interesting way to support IP commercialization within the country....

Microsoft has publicly entered the Augment Reality product space with their HoloLens product....

Zuckerberg: "The future of computing is augmented reality: distraction-free, heads-up communicati...

A visual gom jabbar equivalent using augmented reality for hands. Freaky.﻿

I got something very similar to this Atom hdmi stick from Aliexpress this week. A few notes and...

In this visual summary, there appears to be a consistent view of sysadmins by the other roles ;)﻿

Google's flatbuffers looks like a very promising serialization library to have in your toolkit.

A new hope for mobile holography....

Auto-focusing glasses. A game changer if they can get it going as a commercially viable product.

I'm curious about and looking forward to this blog series "Neck Pain: The Neck Owner's Manual".

Interesting discussion on the Vive VR headset.

A visual gom jabbar equivalent using augmented reality for hands. Freaky.

In this visual summary, there appears to be a consistent view of sysadmins by the other roles ;)