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Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:33 PM by dsumner
I know, I know, I am a useless blogger. In my schedule  I have regular “update blog” diary item. It is amazing  how I lack the ability to  keep to this commitment, though perhaps my personal trainer could also say the same about my running Read More...
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ITag

Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:52 PM by dsumner
http://www.microsoft.com/tag/content/support/developer/ More about this – Shortly. Read More...
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Revisiting the Long Tail & Woolworths

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:02 PM by dsumner
Opportunity is all around. Perhaps some might  call me  crazy for  stating that  but wherever   change occurs in a market, opportunity is also created. Recent  changes in our economy have been so great that it has  Read More...
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Photosynth on CNN & Presidential Inauguration

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:06 AM by dsumner
  Earlier this week I posted a note about how a silverlight version of photosynth was now available.  You can now see that tool used in the context of the Presidential inauguration  on CNN.com.   http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/ Read More...
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Photosynth viewer in Silverlight

Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 9:12 AM by dsumner
Many of you will now have had a chance to  try out Photosynth which can be found  at http://photosynth.net/ Photosynth can essentially  stitch images together while maintaining ( if the image is shot correctly) the relative position of Read More...
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Microsoft Surface and Tesco Wines

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:04 PM by dsumner
I thought it  about time I should write up a little about a trial project that was put together with Microsoft Surface with Tesco wines. While Microsoft obviously  supplied the base hardware. Two of our partners Identity Mine and Conchango   Read More...
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MIX09 are you going?

Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:19 PM by dsumner
MIX is  the key event for Microsoft in the Online space. This year’s event will  be held in Las Vegas between the 18th and 20th of March. Even if you can’t make it – its worth booking marking  as all the content from the event will be posted Read More...
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Making a product that matters

Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:46 PM by dsumner
I’ve been reading “ Design Matters : How great designs will make people  love your company” by  Robert Brunner and Stewart Emery. Its an interesting text, though  it does come over a little strong in the Apple/Jobs fan boy department. Perhaps Read More...
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Weekend: Books

Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 6:05 PM by dsumner
I have to  admit to being a bit of  book fiend. I just can’t walk past a bookshop without going in. I always seem to have  a want list, and Christmas always  gives me the excuse to go, sometimes literally, for larger volumes. The first Read More...
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Microsoft Research & the Christmas Lectures

Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 8:35 PM by dsumner
I mentioned in a previously  that Chris Bishop ( chief research scientist at Microsoft Cambridge)  from will be presenting the Christmas lectures  at the royal  Institution , this year. You can find more details regarding the lectures Read More...
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That’s the wonder of Woolworths ( and the Media)

Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 8:13 PM by dsumner
Well, its all over  bar the sale of the stores for dear old woolies. A huge percentage of the population will be misty eyed at the  demise of Woolworths. Once the only source  of anything decent  in a  the small town high street. Read More...
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The rise of Netbooks and Microsoft Windows 7

Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 3:51 PM by dsumner
  As Marc   recently noted  I have been  fortunate enough to try out a test build of Windows 7 on an Advent netbook. There are plenty of reviews circulating  on the web about the new capabilities of Windows 7.  Take your Read More...
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Food

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:22 PM by dsumner
Or rather very good food, is becoming  an  increasingly hard an exclusive  thing to find. Clearly having the time to have have had a lunch or two at a few Alain Ducasse restaurants   in France has had an effect on me.   Read More...
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Windows Home Server

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:21 PM by dsumner
So, your home PC dies ( disk fails, blows up etc). You haven't  got a backup ( or if you have its only of a few things, and  not very up to date). This would be the exact moment when you could say "never mind, I have a complete, up to date Read More...
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The Neglected Blog

Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:45 AM by dsumner
Well I have to admit to some  failure in my ability to update and maintain this blog. The biggest sin in blogging appears to be failing to blog regularly. Really , I have tried! But I don't have a job with any real regular pattern to it, and I can Read More...
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