IT Crowd.

Seriously, this has to be one of the funniest shows I've seen in ages. For anyone who’s ever worked in IT, you'll get a kick out of this video. Enjoy!

And so it begins.

I would expect this movement to gain more momentum over the next year.

Evolution of the printed word.

Simply put I couldn't agree more with this individuals point of view.

The article: Journalism evolving, not dying. An interview of science author Steven Johnson at the South By South West Interactive Festival

Bullets of interest:

- Newspapers are dying but journalism is evolving
- Newspaper industry; it is ugly and it is going to get uglier. Great journalists are going to lose their jobs and cities are going to lose their newspapers.
- The shift (death of newspapers) was foreseeable but ignored, resulting in changes that should have happened gradually over a decade being crammed into a year or two with some pressure from the global economic meltdown
-There is panic that newspapers are going to disappear as businesses. Then there is panic that crucial information is going to disappear along with them. We spend so much time figuring out how to keep the old model on life support that we don't figure out how to build the new one.
-News organizations should stop wasting resources on information freely available online.
- "Print editions are yesterday's news. If it is news, people want to hear it as soon as they can".

Touché!

Beard of Bees!!!

Iphone Rules!

Trips.

An old piece from slashgear that I came across some time ago. Needless to say, if I had 3 monitors on my desk right now I wouldn't be resting my arms on a sea of paper (most of which are one time print jobs for reference against work on my PC).

Triple-LCD setup boosts performance by over 35% claim researchers

While many people are still struggling to find the desk space (and money) for a dual-monitor setup, according to Fujitsu and the Fraunhofer IAO laboratory we should actually be squeezing three displays into our workspace if we want real performance improvements. Compared to users completing tasks on a single 19-inch LCD, those with three such screens linked together saw a 35.5-percent jump in efficiency.

A third group of testers had a 22-inch widescreen monitor, which increased their productivity over the single 19-inch group by 8.4-percent. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the users themselves were reportedly more happy with their bigger, multi-screen setups.

Fujitsu are now looking to use the research in their product development. However, unless they’re planning a dual-sliding version of the Lenovo W700ds (now that we’d like to see) we’re not sure how that would differ from them saying “go on, buy another few monitors, please?”

Got Inventory?

Quickly scanning the blogs before I head out the door for work, I came across an interesting article in business week addressing just How Low Can PC Prices Go? Really this is just another example of industry over capacity (this time its in PC hardware) and consumer price deflation. Just like in any other industry that assumed the consumer would be king into infinity, the harsh reality is that consumer demand vintage 2002-2006 has left the building never to be seen again.

On a side note, I want a netbook (preferably the new Apple touch screen netbook please!).

When Jim Wahl bought his first computer back in 1995, it cost$2,500. In December, when the Dallas acquisitions manager bought a Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) laptop for his daughter, he paid just $600. "[In the past], it was a lot bigger decision," Wahl says. "But now, the tires on my car cost more than my laptop."

Personal computer prices tend to fall over time, of course. But in the past few months, computer prices have plummeted much more sharply than the usual 5% yearly declines. In the fourth quarter of 2008 alone, the average personal computer's selling price dropped 14.3%, according to consultancy IDC. Only once in the past 15 years have PC prices declined at a faster rate—in the fourth quarter of 2001, as the Internet bubble burst, when they dipped 14.5%, according to IDC.

And the recent slide may be a precursor to sharper declines ahead. As consumers cut back amid the global economic downturn and the popularity of low-cost computers known as netbooks rises, the computer industry could see a big drop in prices. "We are not done yet," says Rob Enderle, president of consultant Enderle Group. "The drop is going to continue through the year." Matthew Wilkins, an analyst with researcher iSuppli, predicts that average laptop prices could fall a further 10% in 2009, while desktop prices drop 15%.

Read more here: How Low Can PC Prices Go?

2019

Working in finance has its downfalls. The never-ending cascade of all major market indices over the past year and a half play perfect illustration to that statement. During times of such doom and gloom, it is all to easy to get down on the future and what it holds for each and everyone of us. In the spirit of keeping the glass half full, lets fall back onto the creative minds at Microsoft to whom I say...if these things are in my future, everything is gonna be ok!

T-minus 10 years and counting.