Musings in a wired world

Simon Wilson

  • New Year, New Header

    Time to update the picture header in my blog, finally got round to some customisation. The picture if one of many we took of the Roman ruins in Budapest from our long weekend there in October 2005. The ruins were… Continue reading

  • What will happen to virtualization?

    Following on from my previous entry and these two items:- Q&A: VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum Operating Systems never did exist, and the ones we have are doomed… This has really made me think as to where virtualization will lead us.… Continue reading

  • What is an OS?

    Gee nearly 2 months since my last post (note to self: post more!) This article by Diane Green of VMware made me think again about how you actually define what constitutes an operating system. (This also goes back to a… Continue reading

  • Now why would they want that?

    Great new feature in iTunes 7 = Album Art. BUT you have to have an Apple iTunes music store account and you can’t have one of those without giving out you credit card details. Now why would I want to… Continue reading

  • Enough Already !

    Stop this nonsense labelling everything with 2.0! Ever someone coined the phrase Web 2.0 nothing is cool unless you label it with a 2.0, the lates of which is lunch 2.0. Come on this is just getting ridiculous. Just cause… Continue reading

  • Negative Positives or is that Positive Negatives

    Sorry it has to stop!  Recently I have noted a trend in myself and others towards using the phrase ‘not too bad‘ in response to the question ‘How are you?‘. What on earth does ‘not too bad’ mean, what is ‘too bad’, are… Continue reading

  • It Lives!

    Yesterday saw the public launch of something we have been working on for some time. SmartPeak (http://www.smartpeak.com) is the start of a new direction for our parent company as we seek to show the wider enterprise market the benefits of… Continue reading