Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
You may have seen that registration for UK TechDays events from 12th to 16th April is already open - but you probably won’t have seen this newly announced session, even if you are following @uktechdays on twitter After Hours @ UK Tech Days 2010 – Wednesday 14th April, ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
As titles go that’s an odd one, but stay with me. I’ve written before about my Citroen C6: Before Christmas a warning message popped up saying something was wrong with the hydro-pneumatic suspension which give the big Citroens their wonderful ride. A visit to the garage confirmed the ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
First rule of blogging. Don’t blog when angry. I’ve been through a time consuming process which could be called educational – in the sense of “Well ! That taught me a lesson”. My drug regime has been mentioned before in my posts, and this is one of those ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
I’ve also heard it said that every time you use an equation you lose half the audience. I’m going to take that risk : In photography there are a lot of equations which come up in the form 1/x + 1/y = 1/z , and one of those is for ...
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
In a post a while back about Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) I wrote “I’ve got a bad track record choosing scanners” and described the most recent one I’ve bought as a “piece of junk”. Because my experience has been bad I don’t scan much, and because I don’t scan much ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Yesterday Steve gave a talk at the University of Washington to discuss how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology. You can watch the speech on demand here, the video is about 85 minutes long, and if you want to get a snapshot of ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Yesterday I wrote about end-of-life planning for OSes and so it makes sense to talk about the end of a service pack, as retirement – it is after all the word that is used on the product lifecycle pages. Of course we don’t mean retirement in go and live by ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
No. I’m not talking about sorting out the music for one’s funeral* … I think every manager I have had in my 10 years at Microsoft has grumbled that I’m not great with planning – it’s a fair criticism and I try to work on it. When the ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
On the MDOP blog there is an announcement of new releases of both APP-V (which runs applications in a Virtualized “bubble” so they don’t clash with each other) and MED-V (which runs a centrally managed virtualized OS) App-V 4.6 can ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
One of the things that seemed odd when I first came to Microsoft, was the way we put up posters for our own internal consumption. I’ve long since grown used to it: inevitably some of these are interesting, some are not, some are eye-catching and some are not. ...
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