Remote Desktop has some interesting implications. I need to do a demo at a client site soon. This is a complex demo with a number of pieces of technology which all must work together. So rather than haul another laptop into the client I just installed the client on one of my servers using remote desktop. Then I can run the software and the client just needs to provide a machine with internet access… Or I provide wireless. Whatever. Either option will work. And I can have the software just sitting there waiting for me to log back on. No having to log off… It just sits there. And just works.

One of my clients suggested an obvious feature in my TeamTrack software today. He thought it would be a good idea to see where people start and stop their vehicles on a map. That is such an obvious idea I am wondering why I never thought of it. When I reworked the reports a week back I did made the reporting engine more useful so it could return a datastructure with the information needed for this type of work pre-processed. There was only about an hours work needed to add start and stop points to a map like what appears below. FYI, this person (who I will not identify) stopped at this shop for about 70 minutes earlier today. I am guessing that they also got lunch there as well as getting provisions.

Finally, News.Com.AU has a travel section feature on places with names so famous you would swear that you had been there. Strangely I have actually been to one… MONTEZUMA…