UK techdays Free events in London – including after hours.

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, ...

Cars, social media, phones, windows media and there’s no hiding with co-pilot.

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 ...

A FAT (32) lot of good that did me …

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 ...

Photographic resolution and scans.

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 ...

How to use old drivers with a new OS – more on XP mode

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 ...

New IPD Guide (Beta) – The Dynamic Data Center

Friday, March 5th, 2010

For those of you not familiar with the IPD Guides, they aim to provide a couple of key benefits: Help to define the technical decision flow through the planning process. List the decisions to be made and the commonly available options to ...

TechNet Article: VDI is the answer. Now, what was the question?

Friday, March 5th, 2010

If you’re not a subscriber to the TechNet newsletter, it’s actually a pretty good bi-weekly resource on Microsoft technologies, events, user groups, blogs, videos and more.  In this issue however, yours truly was asked to prepare an article on Desktop Virtualisation, to which I obliged.  I thought ...

Steve Ballmer talks about our cloud strategy

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 ...

Academy Live for Partners – Microsoft Virtualisation: Desktop to Datacenter to Cloud

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Presented by Kenon Owens Monday, March 29th 2010 – 16:00-17:00 GMT As Organizations begin to see the Value of Virtualization and adopt different Virtualization Technologies, they may want to know what’s next? Who can help me realize the benefits of virtualization today, and prepare me to leverage my ...

Microsoft Virtualisation Summit 2010

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

  If you’re around on the 12th April 2010, and you’re interested in learning a bit about Microsoft Virtualisation technologies, plus, have a chat over a brew with me, then this could be the “Virtualisation Summit for you!” Looking at virtualization but unsure about your ...