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Monday, December 18, 2006 6:47 PM

IT Forum on IT's Showtime

Jason has got himself onto IT's showtime again talking about large scale roll our of mobile devices (i.e. how we did it internally). So if you never actually made it to ITForum this year as we sold out so quickly, and you wanted to catch the best bits,
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Friday, December 15, 2006 5:41 PM

What is an influencer?

I've been on a team offsite event in the Midlands of England, in a pretty little market town with 900 years of history. Unfortunately, we were ensconced in a conference room (as usual), discussing various aspects of evangelism. One of these topics: influencers.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:45 AM

Ancient calculator

I was impressed when I saw this story a couple of weeks ago about this ancient calculator that has been discovered in Greece. it looks like a mechanical computer - which is what it is really. Fairly complicated gearing system too. Mind you, the Mayans
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Monday, December 04, 2006 9:12 AM

Who would have thought it?

So. The Register uses Live Search on it's site.... Hats off to the Windows Live team...
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Friday, December 01, 2006 9:54 PM

Second Life Grey Goo

Steve (who is still making superb bits of machinima ) told me about this worm affecting Second Life. it's a proof of concept worm that caused a lot of aggravation - a "Grief bomb" I'm quite impressed by the idea of the Second Life concept - apart from
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:59 PM

Can't decide what to do?

Paul has created a neat little mashup using Virtual Earth and a number of other API's. and its UK focused too. It's called the Random Day out Generator Basically, you enter a postcode, when you want to go out and the type of things you like doing/eating.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:30 PM

The links of human kindness

I'm really impressed with how the world really works. Last month I was on tour doing my Unified Communications demos and labs, and had my first stop in Athens. Troy and I had some free time so we went around the Acropolis, the Parthenon and then onto
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Thursday, November 23, 2006 7:13 PM

Do what? for world peace?

Completely off topic for me, and very bizarre but I'm linking to this article in the NY Times about what to do on December 22nd to focus on World peace. I won't say much more as its certainly not technical, nor is it IT related at all, but it certainly
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:09 PM

Powershell: all you ever wanted to know

I've been inundated with Powershell questions this morning. (Powershell RTM'd today and is available to download) I've been on the Ask the Experts desk at IT Forum today. I love working at the front desk. The questions are amazing, From amazingly good
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:31 PM

RSS - just how popular is it?

I wrote the article below for the TechNet newsletter this week and I've been amazed at the huge response I've had to the article. I've decided to reproduce it here to see if blog readers have the same thoughts about RSS than those who read the TechNet
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:02 PM

Error, Error, Error!

I got this error message on my machine last night. I don't remember what I was actually doing - perhaps I was just closing things down for the night. But it made me laugh out loud, so I thought I'd share it with you. Nothing like "emphasising" the fact
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:24 PM

Don't work late.

I like this tip about leaving the office on time. I got it from the Microsoft at work newsletter that I subscribe to. Christian writes an excellent newsletter (and blog too by the way). I feel strongly that we should all get into the habit of working
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:30 PM

Wiki's - changing your interaction with Microsoft

I love Wiki's. They're an amazing collaboration tool, quicker and lighter than Sharepoint. the document you have is the "definitive" final document. When we're planning the roadshow, or the next set of Technet events, we use a Wiki. we all put our ideas
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:54 PM

Girly Geeks at ITForum

I've been chatting to the Organisers of ITForum and whinging about why they were planning to hold a Woman in Technology event, and a Girly Geek dinner for TechEd Developers, but not for TechEdITForum. Why not ITForum. Surely there are women in Infrastructure
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:01 PM

Control your virtualised environments

The lovely Dave told me about Appsense , and as I've been getting up to speed with Softricity recently, I thought I'd take a closer look as the two seem to go hand in hand. The bad thing about Virtualised applications is that they start to hog memory
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