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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:27 AM

Huh?

The fail-pillar and crash-cone? Good thing nobody runs critical business apps on consumer oriented Web 2.0 systems…
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Friday, September 26, 2008 4:29 AM

UQ gets S&ssy

I just saw a story from my old alma mater about them moving away from their old “interesting” mail system will be retired for Microsoft Live@edu Exchange Labs. If you haven’t heard of this, it is like Outlook in the cloud, which in my mind is the most
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Friday, May 02, 2008 6:54 AM

New Australian Live Maps data

Bird's Eye view for Sydney. Check out the Harbour bridge : And in funky photosynthy 3D mode:
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Friday, May 02, 2008 6:23 AM

Social networks are still too closed?

Interesting blog post on social networking over at c|net. Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Social networks are still too closed | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com This quote struck me as odd: "If it's not searchable by Google, it's not open, and open is
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:11 AM

braindump...

I haven't blogged for a while, so I will just stream out what is front of mind lately... Seattle is smaller than I imagined. It reminded me of Adelaide, but with less good wine. Its bizarre to think that Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon.com and Microsoft are
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Monday, February 18, 2008 3:15 AM

The Web 2.0 Office Suite?

Interesting article on microsoft watch regarding usage of web based office suites. Microsoft Watch - Web Services & Browser - R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite While, who knows what would happen if that sizable chunk of uninformed people heard of the
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:38 AM

CSS 1 - Al 0

I finally caught lilian reading my blog on the weekend. The problem was, it was rendering horrible on her mac running firefox. Dark gray background and light gray text. Turns out it was my sloppy CSS. So with IE8's much touted standards compliance I thought
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:55 AM

The Obfuscated Web

I don't even know which language this site is coded in - my guess would be the ghosts of CMS past. http://www.fiat.com/cgi-bin/pbrand.dll/FIAT_COM/home.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=no Do yourself a favour... don't view source. Just walk away. don't do it. you don't
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:11 PM

rumors, trumors and guerilla marketing

The shipping seven blog makes for interesting reading... is it true? is it another fake blog? is it a reverse-psychology IBM blog? Who knows. Anyways, I am really proud to be able to share with you an early build of "7". Okay, so it is DOS 7.
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 6:57 AM

2008 Tech Predictions

It is that time of year to get out my ouji board and crystal ball and gaze into the future. 1. "Green IT" continued to be driven by silly metrics rather than total lifecycle costs. What can we expect to hear? "We are going green - We've
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Monday, December 31, 2007 6:58 AM

RIP Netscape

As of the 1st of February, life support for Netscape Navigator will be turned off . I remember using Netscape for the first time in 1995 - after that I never used a BBS again. Then it started to cost actual real money (at a time where we were paying five
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:47 AM

Popfly gets some ribbon action

Very cool - the ribbon makes an appearance on the web (other than Office Online) hostmapper - Microsoft Popfly
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:02 AM

The Visio 2007 Poker Game

Learn about visio, win prizes and skill up on PPP methodology (Programming with Pretty Pictures). The Visio 2007 IT Pro Game
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:54 AM

Just installed the new live suite...

...on 64 bit Vista - Woohoo! Get it here: www.windowslive.com
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 8:54 AM

Link Your Live IDs Together!

As someone that has multiple hotmail/passport/live.com accounts, I think this is really really cool! Do you have multiple Windows Live IDs? Maybe an older one and a new one, one for work & one for home? A public one and a private one? If so, you know
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