martinmurphy.com – Martin Murphy

It’s funny what happens in really large organisations.
‘They threw my laptop into the atmosphere’ | The Register

I wonder if I could try any of those excuses with my boss?

Excellent tip here to Create an in-cell bar graph with Excel
from the Lifehacker Shortcut Screencast Contest. Really handy for quick graph, and it works in OpenOffice.org also.

Screencasts look like a good way to distribute tips like this, so I’ll have to look into that for the future, maybe using Jing for screenshots and screen recordings as suggested by Paul Watson. I wonder if there’s something to add a voiceover.

Nokia are saying that the N95 is better than the iPhone, at least in the European market. Just read an article on
SiliconRepublic.com: Nokia aim to “rip through the iPhone hype”

While I personally would prefer the features in the N95, the screen, interface, and form factor of the iPhone are much better. If Apple could put in a 3G radio and allow you use the iPhone as a modem…

The whole reliability and updatability issues will have to wait until the phones have been in the market for a while. (I’d be concerned that the large iPhone screen would get scratched.)

Edit to add: “…European carriers are hell-bent on reviving flagging ARPU (average revenue per user) levels by replacing lost revenues with new streams from high-speed data services…” Network coverage issues are still going to be an issue – when you force everyone to use online data they get annoyed when they can’t access it. (e.g. I work in a metal-clad building and can’t get phone coverage inside)

Saw this on LifeHacker, it’s a fun video from the onion about the Internet crashing:

Friday Fun: The Internet Crash of 2007 – Lifehacker

Today’s word in the dictionary.com word a day feed is “triskaidekaphobia”
Nice one guys.