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Monday, February 23, 2009 9:57 AM

Windows 7 on my Mac Mini

Back in the day, Dave and I bought (intel) Mac Minis (there was a retail outlet which had apparently decided to stop selling them and they were going pretty cheap). It’s been my main Vista machine at home for 18 months or so now (running bootcamp), I
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:05 PM

Walking the Walk

I love my job – not least because much of the time this is my office. All made possible via the magic of wireless and mobile devices. Speaking of walking, I was on the way back from the Gym the other day and spotted this – I didn’t know we’d branched
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Monday, May 05, 2008 8:38 AM

Machinations

Just trying out a new look. After my plan comes to fruition, I should be ready to subsume the brand .
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:39 PM

Recognising Talent

<disclaimer>If it's not obvious from the content, I have a personal interest in this post</disclaimer> I was going to thinly disguise this post as a follow on from Frank 's ASP.NET Site of the {insert time period here} , but I'm just going
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:35 AM

New Non-Technical Blogs

My OPML is full of many of Australia's top technical people, but there are also a few non-technical people that I love reading (Dilbert's Scott Adams is always great value for example). Here are a couple of new ones I've added: Michele Connolly's How
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:31 PM

WPF? Pah!

I'm sitting in Joseph Cooney's (excellent) session on WPF at CodeCampOz , and it seems to me that the canonical demo of WPF is an animated button bouncing around a form. Of course, this is something VFP has been able to do for ever: **************************************************
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:06 PM

The pyramid expands

Darren 's been tagged and, in turn, has passed it on to me. When I was chatting a couple of weeks ago with my new colleague Michael Kordahi , he said that he had a completely different impression of me reading my blog from what he got by talking to me,
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Saturday, August 19, 2006 2:53 PM

The Haiku Hits Keep On Coming

Tech•Ed looms ever nearer Consumes all my time See you on the other side If you need a Tech•Ed Haiku for your OOF , see Dave in the Dev'Garten - he's offered to write you one .
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:11 PM

Logo Generator

I had to go (dot) one better than Frank :)
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Monday, August 01, 2005 9:38 AM

HP 6365 in the USA - another blonde moment.

Susan is not the only one to have a blond moment with a phone recently. I brought my iPAQ 6365 Pocket PC Smart Phone to TechReady here in Seattle and ducked into the local T-Mobile shop for a pre-paid SIM (as a company policy, we don’t do global
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