I found myself drawn into Stewart Brand’s presentation on environmentalism and urbanisation… He makes some really interesting points on how the environmental- or eco-movement will change over the next couple of decades. The movement will change from a grassroots “nice-to-do” group of Western Industrialised tree-huggers and idealists to a global phenomenon of not just romanticised activisim but cold-hard-fact-based politicking. This change will be brought on by two things. Firstly the internet will enable global organised communication to even the remotest parts. Secondly,...

John C. Dvorak writes in his column today: Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results—a bust. It’s déjà vu all over again. And since this moment in time is only the beginning of the cycle, the best nuttiness has yet to emerge. Nevertheless, this is not to say that a lot of nuttiness hasn’t already happened. I can only partially agree him… Yes, the same copycat, cookie-cutter business models exist. Yes, each startup is some form of...

The other day I mentioned that I needed two applications to be written… A calendar syncer and a virtual desktop manager. Well I’ve found a workable VDM for Vista. Take a...

We are slowly moving to a world where information is readily available, wherever you might be in the world. One of the things that annoys me is that I cannot sync my ‘corporate’ Outlook Calendar with an online calendar such as Google Calendar. There is a RemoteCalendars project on SourceForge, but deals with syncing calendars from the Google Calendar cloud to the desktop. I want to send data in Outlook, running on my desktop, to Google Calendar. This has two benefits…. first it allows me to have access to my calendar from anywhere, secondly… Google Calendar provides a spring...