Fine tuning the virtual engine
Blog You know that thing that happens right after you buy a canary yellow Ford Escort Mark II with the racing trim and go faster seat covers and you start noticing all the Ford Escorts on the road like it’s every third car?
[January 27, 2009, 23:19]
Bankers borrow from industrialists
Blog When in 1913 Henry Ford invented the first large moving assembly line, he may not have had ABN AMRO, RBS Group or Barclays in mind, but these banks are always looking for new ways to achieve production line efficiencies.
[March 17, 2008, 13:54]
How Opera's business model works
Blog We signed up Ford recently and we're now in Ford trucks. In the Jon von Tetzchner Q&A we published yesterday, we had to leave out a bit of the interview because it didn't really go with the general flow of the widget-and-HTML 5-oriented discussion.
[May 22, 2009, 12:59]
Coders compete for kudos, cash & Cairo
Blog Henry ‘model-T’ Ford once said that, “Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. But given the rise of the ‘consolidated’ corporate IT behemoths around us, are we at risk of losing our competitive edge in...
[April 6, 2009, 8:01]
Mysterious black radio ops in London
Blog It was a shiny black Ford Mondeo estate, but the roof was studded with more antennae than spikes on a Hoxton haircut. I had just popped out of our Southwark offices for a moment at lunchtime when a most peculiar vehicle swanned past.
[November 19, 2008, 13:28]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog The whole malarkey revolves around mass production, just like Henry Ford discovered: if you put one slice of silicon through an expensive process and make one chip, you have one very expensive chip. Tuesday
[April 8, 2001, 22:20]
Perl in the shell
Blog I saw a new book launched this week called The Productive Programmer by “master” (no less) developer Neil Ford. According to the publishers, “Ford not only offers advice on the mechanics of productivity - how to work smarter, spurn interruptions...
[September 10, 2008, 12:12]
How to spot the common symptoms of ineffective IT
Blog Sadly, many years working in IT Effectiveness Consultancy couldn’t prepare me for rampaging mice in the attic, the enthusiastic but potentially-lethal electricity wiring set up by former residents, and the discovery of an ancient Ford Prefect in...
[February 4, 2009, 14:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We're about to be surrounded by talking, orbiting Ford Cortinas. Bank Holiday. Still time for a gossip with a pal, though, who informs me that the Motorola-based Iridium global satellite system has hit a few problems.
[May 10, 1997, 9:00]
Cybercrime: The Movie
Blog They’ve hosted a clip on YouTube for anyone who’s looking for a more accurate depiction of the threat of cybercrime than Hollywood’s recent efforts such as Die Hard 4.0 and Harrison Ford’s Firewall - which shouldn't be hard.
[January 30, 2008, 14:33]
Mountain excitement
Blog He has hired some device called a Ford Mustang GT-H Hertz Racer, and tempted me and MS flack Duncan along for the kidney-liquidising ride. Greetings from San Diego, a Navy town on the Californian side of the Mexican border and home to the Microsoft...
[March 26, 2007, 7:32]
We don’t need no education - actually, maybe we do
Blog Instead of a nice little test drive, would BMW or Ford offer a group of motoring journalists a two-day boardroom session on torque ratios and their new brake pad roadmap? You’ve probably aware that journalists get invited to press conferences and...
[August 31, 2007, 18:08]
Microsoft Wave has ups and downs
Blog That's like naming your new car the Ford Prius. Those of us who search for green shoots in Microsoft's garden have had some pleasant moments of late. Software coming out under the GPL, the recognition that 'none' is not an adequate answer to...
[July 28, 2009, 7:36]
Plantronics headset to blame for Neil Armstrong's moon gaffe?
Blog It has since been claimed that acoustic analysis of the recording reveals the presence of the missing "a" A digital audio analysis conducted by Peter Shann Ford, an Australia-based computer programmer, claims that Armstrong did, in fact, say "a...
[February 14, 2008, 10:37]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And the very biggest computers in the world are made not from the most powerful chips, but from those that are sufficiently powerful and sufficiently cheap: the most interesting and important speculative tools we have are being driven forward by...
[March 3, 2006, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Have manufacturer-specific ones, so you can tell how many Ford Kas or pink wooly jumpers are in a particular area. The Internet went down, say friends, on Sunday. I wander onto the Net and search for cries of pain.
[November 14, 1998, 5:03]
IBM’s Pulse: vital signs for software?
Blog IBM Tivoli Software’s Zollar was there again saying, "Just like Henry Ford did with the manufacture of automobiles in the early 19th Century, the goal of IBM Service Management is to industrialise services by streamlining workflows and processes...
[May 21, 2008, 15:10]
X-ray named top scientific invention
Blog Model T Ford The X-ray machine has been voted the most important scientific invention in a poll by the Science Museum. Out of nearly 50,000 votes cast, more than 9,500 chose the X-ray, one of 10 iconic inventions or discoveries in the poll, as...
[November 4, 2009, 16:23]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Here's a guy from Ford Motors, saying that the Itanium is very fast and very nice, and has helped him make his new muscle car in two years rather than four. Tuesday 17/02/2004 At last, IDF itself. Which means the first keynote, which means it's...
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
