June 2004 Blog Posts
Yep, that's right. I formated my hard drive with Windows XP on it and installed Windows Millenium.
This is only on the machine that my kids use. All they run is educational software and I got fed up with lots of titles not working under Windows XP. I guess many of the publishers still target Window 9x since there's a lot of it around still in schools. You think that they would at least do minor upgrades or patches to have it run under XP but no, they don't seem to.
It was a bit of a time warp installing it and...
Cool! I can't wait to have my own personal Star Trek teleporter. And another step towards quantum computing.
News article about Nokia's market share slipping. But the amazing thing is that 600 million mobile phone handsets are expected to be sold this year. Amazing!
Wow. BT to spend £3 billion to rip out the entire old public switched telephone network and replace it with an IP based one and roll it out by 2009. Radical but pretty well a necessity as IP telephony continues to grow. It's a great move. The big issue is how their business model and charging structure will change as their revenue from long distance telephone charges will continue to erode.
I received some insightful comments on my Writing Code Is Stupid paper from Neil Eyde which you can read on his blog. He's involved with a tool called Skyway Builder:
"Skyway Builder automates the integration of existing business systems by connecting to and transforming these systems into business services that are used to create new solutions."
Can't tell you much about it but it looks something like Biztalk.