I’ve been using Outlook 2010 beta now for a couple week.  I use this with Exchange at the office as my main repository for contacts and sync it everywhere I go.  Outlook does this great job of organizing messages/chats/meetings/conversations by contacts but wastes a good portion of the screen on showing a contact photo next [...]

File this under Smart Thinking.  Take a picture of both sides of a check with your Iphone.  While it uploads, void the check.  Access deposited funds asap.  This is the smartest Iphone app this year.  Now citibank needs to get in on it.
Bank Lets Customers Deposit Checks by Taking Pics with an iPhone - Banking [...]

After spending the weekend with a tiny wood chisel fitting an air conditioner into a window frame circa 1890, I got to feeling crafty.  My days in the wood shop may be done, but this great little project from GideonTech will be a techy excuse for keeping the chisel out.

GideonTech.com Case Modification - Mahogany USB [...]

The servers here are all moving to ESX.  Well all but one.
This server was poorly created using VMware server version 1.1 a long time ago.  Everytime we tried to move to ESX lots of problems like missing VMDK files and Kernel Panics.  Two things wrong: 1) ESX doesn’t support IDE drives and 2) most P2V [...]

Nick Denton changed not only the design of the Gawker portfolio, but added Facebook connect.  Nail #1 for openID.  Gawker commenters meet Facebook users

Readwriteweb.com had a very good question. What would happen if other sites started using Facebook Connect? Positing the joys of collective listening in Itunes, interactive games beyond scrabulous, a new wave of ‘connectiveness’ could hit the web. Personally, I would really like to see it just used as a replacement [...]

Seriously these things are like the soup spoon at the table. Always at the front of the place setting.

Mercury news reports:Cisco is experimenting with open office spaces.  Employees would come to work with a laptop, find a place to plop down, and work wirelessly for the day.  Phones would follow laptops, rooms would provided temporary privacy and everyone is happy…. right? 
The noise as people try to find someone by screaming over heads [...]

Full Article from Read/WriteWeb.com
In 2004 Chris Anderson wrote an influential book called The Long Tail.
In it, he argued that the future of business is to sell less of more.
The main premise is that collectively, things that are in
rather low demand can amount to quite large volumes. This is because
there is a large number of people [...]