A few years ago I created this solar Equation of Time visualisation using a visual basic macro and DeltaCAD:
That was at a time before SVG was supported by any major browser. Today the situation is quite different and it is time to revisit the creation of Visualisations for the web. Is it possible...
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Without a doubt the most helpful leadership book that I have ever read is “The Leadership Challenge” by Kouzes & Posner. The authors have interviewed 1000s of leaders around the world and distilled effective leaders’ stories into 10 key themes of leadership. The theme that I have learnt the most from is the theme...
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Remember command.com and .bat files? Still using them? I recently downloaded Microsoft’s new command shell (available here). The key idea seems to be to make 99% of the internals of a MS Windows based computer accessible to a command shell. Whereas the Unix tradition of shells have commands linked together by consuming...
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The promise of infocard and digital identity is still a long way ahead of us. Until digital identity provision becomes a ‘no-brainer’ commodity technology we will still need to keep track of a multitude of usernames and passwords. My best estimate is that I have about 150 separate password and username pairs from...
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Working with fonts for Kazakh language is getting easier all the time. Unicode is really having and impact and the old codepage soup is slowly disappearing. Occasionally however, I still need to view a rogue Kazakh (or yesterday Kirghiz) font to find out where the characters are hiding. The Arjan Mels freeware font...
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Desktop search has changed the way that I look at my computer. I spend a lot less time filing — and I can now find my old notes and emails much more reliably. I am currently using Copernic Desktop Search having dumped Google Desktop. Google Desktop kept crashing Outlook. ...
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I have looked for years for software that allows me to brainstorm. My friend Francis introduced me to Freemind which is now part of my working set of programs that I use daily. Freemind runs under the Java VM and is now at version .80 . Definately worth a look.
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