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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Finally upgraded

I finally upgraded my iPhone to an iPhone 3G this weekend.
Or more precisely, I bought my lovely wife an iPhone 3G and thought I might as well get one for myself at the same time
To keep things simple, hers is black, mine is white, although I have to say, the black one does [...]

Lane assist

My TomTom (GO520) got a software upgrade yesterday, and seems to have gained three new features:
1. Kate now stutters
2. Kate now tells me she can’t find a faster route (IQ maps or something)
3. Lane assist
This last one is extraordinary.
It puts up a diagram of the lanes ahead with green arrows on the one you [...]

Clean up

When I joined Lehman in April 2007, the systems and processes imposed by the US part of our global team were very messy and required a large amount of man-power just to keep going. The philosophy seemed to be “long hours = good work.”
I’ve long wanted to clean this all up, but it’s just not [...]

I wonder….

… if Obama will get through four years without starting a war with anyone?

Xbox Lobotomy

Am I the only one who thinks these creepy Xbox 360 ads make you think that Microsoft wants to lobotomise* its customers?
* ok, I know it’s surgery to the pre-frontal lobe…

Getting it up

It took a while, but after a lot of hard work by the team, we finally got it up.
Where ‘it’ is the One True Global* Puma.
 
* the other Puma being the dodgy one that only runs in the US