ok, here's to FY09, wish me luck - my new financial year resolution is to once again blog regularly, documenting my learnings on this journey...

Bronwen, Catherine and the team have been working on this exciting project - GeekGirlBlogs . Check it out! and let us know if you're also a GeekGirlBlogger - I'm sure Bronwen would be happy to add you onto the list.

Darryl Chantry is one of my all time favourite story tellers, just so happens he's also a great software architect from Kiwi land!!

Season II on SBS again, we firstly watched my cousin Johnny Truong (AstroNerd) from Season I , followed by the new series, where Chris Anderson , albeit a 28th year old, made it through the audition... Chris tells me that he found out about the audition from my blog, he now also has a Nerds FC website...

Looks like some of my colleagues have also been blogging about SAF. Here is a great one from Simon Guest - Nathan Shedroff on Achieving Value through Great Design .

A customer architect asked me why do I blog? I was a little caught by surprise, but a few things came to mind: 1. connection with the people I interact with, whether it's work collagues, customers, past colleagues, friends, and acquaintances that I meet at events 2. meet new people online that have similar...

I've been watching Photosynth for a while, and I've been eargerly waiting for the day that I can tell the world it's available for the public to play with too, finally, here it is! http://labs.live.com/photosynth As an aside though, somehow I am never quick enough to make these exciting announcement...

I guess a compilation of the 'Most' list would be appropriate to celebrate my 100th Blog Post! So, here it is: - Most commented blog: Buy versus Build - Most thumbs up on Techtalkblogs : Frank Arrigo's new Girl - Most controversial blog: The end of the 'Enterprise' as we know it - attracted the most...

following my neighrbour JeffA's footstep, after the upgrade of our Community Server , I thought I'd also upgrade the look and feel of my blog - do you like the new Paperclip - Summer look? That's how I feel! really looking forward to spending a nice long summer in oz with my boys ...

Are you using CardSpace? keen to try it out with a Security Token Service? Live Lab has this STS implementation for you to play with right now...

Expect to see some cool blogs at Ian’s site – my prediction is that for every blog about software architecture and his books , there’ll be 5 blogs on wine tasting, 10 posts about skiing… Welcome to the blogosphere Ian!

Last week went by like lightning… firstly Tech Ed New Zealand, then Tech Ed Australia… off to Nigel Watling’s Hands on Lab tomorrow, I won’t be in the office at North Ryde for two weeks before I know it! So what are the highlights at TechEd for me? Ask the Expert Evening, catching up with friends...

My observation of my own blogging style – the more busy I am with doing various architecture design sessions for customers, speaking at events, etc, the more thoughts I want to blog about, but the less often I blog . However, if I watch what other good bloggers do (eg. Frank ) the more he seems stressed...

I was pleasantly surprised to find all these Australian news items on the international MSDN home page : Tech Talk Blogs Microsoft Australia has launched a community blogging portal for local Technology bloggers. Frank Arrigo has been compiling this list of the last couple of years...