Forrest Duncan's Radio Weblog

	21 December 2002

A link from David Isenberg. http://www.dubyadubyadubya.com/ 9:14:58 AM

	18 December 2002

There is nothing much more I could possibly add to the message from Sam below.  Just click the links and learn how collaboration can bring magical moments.  Just do it. Getting Creative. Read this.  Want more?  Watch this.  See the connection?  Make the connection. [Sam Ruby] 4:01:25 PM

	17 December 2002

Heheheehehehe.  Interesting to note that Radio is reporting I am getting hits to this site from Google.  Nothing unusual about that I guess, but I do find it funny that some of these are coming from the search term 'Lesbian sex'.  I used this term a few days ago (oops, did it again!).  I can just imagine all these folks looking for their pr0n and coming across this!!   Hehehehe. 7:53:27 AM

Some interesting News O'reilly.net : Applications, User Interfaces, and Servers in the Soup Soon there will be another option: users will start up a third-party application that supports Groove-style collaboration by making the appropriate calls to Groove SOAP interfaces. The folks at Groove Networks like to call this the "powered by Groove" model, and look forward to making the use of Groove workspaces as simple as "saving to a G drive" (that is, the workspace will be available like any other storage on the system). [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] I have been asking John Guidice about this capability recently in the Groove developers forums and was pleased when he confirmed that this was due.  Not being able to save files directly into spaces is certainly one of the frustrations about Groove that eventually 'gets on yer tits'.  Whilst chatting to SB Chatterjee yesterday, he referred me to an article that discusses Tenix.  I hadn't heard of this (and I thought that I knew them all).  It certainly looks like they have done office integration well.  No doubt Groove will have at least the same functionality soon with regard to Office.  Of course, in many ways (and this is not intended to diss Tenix in any way) Groove has many functions already that Tenix doesn't have - synchronisation for one - but saving directly into a space is one feature I cannot wait to see. 7:45:39 AM

	15 December 2002

http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/archives/world/000099.php It would be good if refugee doctors while retraining could help with translations at surgeries. They could talk to a group of people, saving time before they go to see a Doctor: Guardian April 2002 Dr McAvoy in Sheffield has 3 translators, but has had to close his doors due to overdemand. "The standard time for a planned consultation is 10minutes. With an interpretor present it takes 20. But his patients between them speak 37 languages - so if it is Turkish, Russian, Kurdish or Farsi, then they do the translation on the phone using a service provided by the Primary Care Trust, passing the receiver between them. It can easily take one and a half hours. " The NHS can be a frustrating place to work, but when people face problems such as these, it is little wonder that so many can put up with it all. It is obvious to me now that what the NHS lacks is time.  For sure, they are short of money, people, buildings etc, but where these shortages really show up is in lack of time available for the front line staff to do what they really want to do.  Technology can and should play a major role in delivering this time back, but then we hit another brick wall.  Because of the lack of spending in IT in the NHS over the last decade, parts of the infrastructure are really beyond useful use.  For us as Groove developers it has been frustrating when faced with Windows 3.11 machine still being used.  Ironically, GWS may make it easier for us, but really....   3:00:56 PM

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