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What am I?

I'm a technology consultant, focused on enterprise collaborative applications. I'm based in North-east Scotland but work all over Europe, and sometimes I present at technology conferences using a mixture of deep-technology and humour to keep the audience awake.

I'm married with one grown-up daughter of whom I'm immensely proud, and have family members covering most significant time-zones. We took 'hide and seek' seriously.

Other interests include making excuses not to go to the gym, testing the tolerance of my peers with humour, and sometimes bringing my 20-year old ZZR 600 out of the garage to terrify myself with.

I've been blogging since it was called 'Talking cr@p on the internet' and at one stage hand-rolled my own blog. Fame and fortune for this minor technological greatness is still 'in the post'.

Enjoy my little outpost on the web and take cheer that it could be worse - I could be a Silverlight consultant...

How to get in touch?

I have a mobile phone number which has been unchanged in 15 years. Most folks have that. Or you can try eMailing me - look at the domain name and take a good guess which will work. Most things will. I'm on Linked-In for the business stuff, Facebook for the personal stuff, and Skype for the face to face stuff. 

I'm a freelance consultant, and I'm engaged by enterprise or government customers. Most of the work I do I cannot speak about, so excuse my somewhat clumsy evasions. 

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Saturday
Sep042010

Tricksy little Macbook

DateSaturday, September 4, 2010 at 2:11PM

Last june, I got a Macbook 13" with 4gb ram, 500gb drive. Nice machine, but when you load a vmware partition with win2k3, AD, Domino server, it kinda crawls.

So first I fitted a Seagate Momentus XP hard drive. Fantastic improvement in performance. 

And today, I stuck in 8gb of Ram. Previously, the price on this was in excess of £400. Crucial had it for less than 200. And I finally stuck in a replacement drive bay for my DVD drive (which I never use on the Mac), and stuck in the old 500gb hard drive.

So now I have an 8gb machine with 1tb of disk, half of which is extremely quick indeed. It makes a huge performance difference. Perhaps now I'll extract digit and fire up the Notes DDE client (or 'Crashy') more often.

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