Most popular cameras

Flickr is aggregating the EXIF information from uploads to say what are the most popular cameras among Flickr users (or most used, which isn't necessarily quite the same); Canon, Nikon, Canon, Canon, Canon... for cameraphones it's only the ones that ID themselves. EXIF and photohosting as free advertising for the manufacturers and free review information for users.

Strategic News blog: what CEOs think

Mark Anderson runs the very thought-provoking, fairly expensive, highly respected Strategic News Service newsletter which is read and commented on by a good proprtion of tech CEOs. He's now blogging at http://www.tapsns.com/blog/; snippets rather than the coherent treatises in the newsletter but still thought-provoking.

Parallels Workstation virtualizes Vista

Just what I’ve been looking for – a way to run Vista with XP versions as virtual machines in case it all goes Horribly Wrong. My desktop has been creaking along recently; it doesn't hibernate any more and it crashes from time to time. I was planning to drop in the big new hard drive and install a fresh version of XP Professional to see if it was a hardware or software problem (and run Home as a virtual machine for the Home testing I still need to do) but we went to New Zealand instead. Now I might do the same, but with Vista. I don't want Vista in a VM, though Parallels will do that too. I thought I'd have to wait for Virtual PC/Server to be Vista ready, which I'm sure it will be when Vista actually ships.

Spellcheck like a pirate

Spellcheck like a pirate
Originally uploaded by marypcb.

Aaarrrrr! This be the way to prepare for the next Speak Like a Pirate Day! This be the spell checker in Word 2007 and it be sure confused by me run-on clauses, me hearty.

No disrepect to Microsoft; language processing is hard and in most sentences 'be turned on' would be correct - just not here.