Does Google Calendar Sync work and help?

I’m going to see what happens when I sync my work calendar (Outlook 2003 via a Sun Connector to our Sun Java Communication Suite) to my Google calendar. Then see if I can get my missus to do same with her work calendar. Then see if this helps us co-ordinate on picking up the kids…

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A bit of a change

I’ve upgraded WordPress and lost my old theme customisations in the process. I did back everything up, but at this point in the process it seemed more fun to grab a new (widget-enabled) theme – hence we’ve gone all HemmingwayEx.

Seth's Blog: What do you do when your systems break?

  Another inspiring blog from Seth Godin. Seth’s Blog: What do you do when your systems break? As someone who is vaguely involved in building systems, I really like the idea that we should be designing BROKEN buttons.  It’s not going to be easy though. Systems are designed because A has to happen before B…

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What is a VRE?

Have been looking into what a Virtual Research Environment is. JISC has a programme which aims to: building and deploying VREs based on currently available tools and frameworks assessing their benefits and shortcomings in supporting the research process improving and extending them to meet the future needs of UK research developing or integrating new tools…

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Live longer, eat plants…

Very simple: to save the planet and save yourself you need to eat more plants and less meat. Start today: don’t have a BLT for lunch, go for something with no meat. It won’t kill you and you won’t have to worry about the provenance of the meat you’re not eating. Oh, and I’m not…

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Logging into Sharepoint Designer

This may be obvious to others, but I was having some problems with not being able to control how I logged into SharePoint Designer. I have a couple of accounts – one for normal work, and one with admin privileges. What I found was that SharePoint designer would log in variously with one or the…

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Preselect a tab in the 'New SharePoint Site' page

I tried to find the answer to this one for too long. It may be obvious to most intelligent people but this one’s for the rest of us. In our SharePoint site we make an individual site for each project and these are all kept under one Project Management uber-site. This means that we’re often…

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SharePoint vs File Server

OK – so it can’t directly replace a file server. Probably obvious, but this post neatly describes why. I’d summarise – if: it’s not big it’s not clever, and it’s not a movie then it’s probably Ok.

Show all subsites in a webpart

I’ve been looking for a while to find a webpart that would show all the subsites of a particular sharepoint site. If you google this, there appear to be lots of people looking for the same thing. Well, I’ve just found an old reference which, a slight update for MOSS 2007 seems to work at…

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