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At the Closing of the Year
December 31st, 2009 | 
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So here we are again, the end of another year and decade, the start of a new one and what an odd year 2009 has been. At a personal level I am frankly amazed that my Mother is still with us, bits fall off and yet she still struggles on ! My own year has been dogged with repeating ingrowing nail problems and as a consequence, repeating infections and my immense frustration with Doctors ! But having said that, I close 2009 with the best photographic kit I’ve ever had and a very clear mind.
On the political front, Gordon Brown has stumbled from one crisis to another, all Members of Parliament have been bought low by the “Expenses Scandal” which I have always thought rather overblown but the public have used it as a stick to beat with in terms of “payback time” and a General Election must be held within 5 months… good fun all round.
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E-mail Systems and Upgrades
This essay is not just for the “Geeks” and therefore a little bit of background might help those who are not. In the “Corporate Space” there are a number of email systems but the two big hitters are IBM with Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft with Outlook/MS Exchange. In reality and in no small part due to user familiarity, Outlook is probably far more popular than Notes although in my view Domino/Notes is a far better corporate tool.
However, with the recent arrival of Windows 7 and for me the opportunity to overhaul my three main workstations, I thought that I might share something with my imaginary audience to do with email that might be worth a thought for now or in the future and it is the sort of thing not often covered because it has to do with the open Source Movement = Free Software !
White man has fire stick !
Data is a highly valuable commodity and yet this does not seem to have penetrated the conciousness of the Government and it’s employees which is little short of extraordinary in 2007. The current story of the “Taxman” loosing on two disks, a copy of a database containing the details of 15 million names, addresses, including children, is shocking but what it points to is both a totally wrong culture and bad line management.