The long-awaited paperless office recedes ever more quickly, at least in most official offices. Here in the home office, however, my printer has sat idle for more than a year, probably because printing at the office has been available. But last week, I needed to print. Usual problems. Ink past its sell-by date. ¹ All of them. Then discover I don’t have a full set of replacements. Order them, and wait for them to arrive. Pull out the old ones, stick in the new ones, throw the old ones in the bin. Discover that the new cartridges are of the wrong region.

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Back before there were blogs (honest; I promise this is true) my little company website had a kind of diary of newsletters, updated roughly once a month, and delivered by hard-coded HTML tables. It looked, I fancied, a little like an index card file ¹ with little tabs at the top for the various d...

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Technology has not been kind to me today. But people have been great. So I’m going to try and focus on that, and ignore the awfulness that is my printer and the rubbish “service” that my other blogging platform and server are delivering. If I could, I’d migrate that one to Octopress too, as I hav...

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Were two hyphens ever more idiotically placed? For those who can't be bothered to read the original ¹ let me enlighten you.

1. The policy is not ready to use; and

2. It is not about food allocation.

That is all.

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Funny how things work. Patrick Rhone recently celebrated the 8th anniversary of his ongoing relationship with Notational Velocity, a mind-bogglingly simple, and even more powerful, piece of software that just keeps everything I want findable. Like Patrick, I too use nvALT, the modern incarnation ...

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