You know you're in for an interesting conversation when the first sentence you hear starts with "I know it's against industry best practice but....". Know, there's nothing wrong with going against the "industry best practice" if you've got a good reason...

Finally.... my new laptop should arrive tomorrow! :) Hopefully it will be rebuilt and ready for a flogging by tomorrow afternoon...

I get a reasonable amount of email each day. Not a lot, about a hundred or two each day (sometimes a lot more). I don't know why I did it, but a few years ago I tried arranging my email by "Conversation" and I really didn't like it. I much preferred...

Yesterday I was asked if a certain method in the .NET framework returns a null. Too easy. Downloaded and installed Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector (wasn't installed because I'm on a new machine... normally the first thing to be installed!) When you...

Today we are making the English version available as a free download . Other languages will be available in the coming weeks.

David Horne is set to become the Anglican Church’s first internet evangelist. Evangelists :) Read more here...

Wow! Last night I saw a talk from David Suzuki . It wasn't his normal environmental speach... it was just about his life. He's promoting his autobiography . Even if you don't agree with his views I urge you to go see him talk. He's a brilliant man. ...

Well ... I'm back from my week off. While I was away I got a year older, gained a lawn mower, iRiver Clix, and a Panasonic HDD Recorder. Awesome week! I also did a heap of tourist stuff in Canberra! My parents were visiting so we spent the whole week...

I just bought my Dad an iRiver Clix for his birthday. I've been waiting to buy it for a few weeks... was just waiting for the price to come down just that little bit extra at JB. Frank Arrigo has the same one :) I think I need one too! ps...

So you're looking for some dummy data? Well how about downloading the wikipedia ???!! There are over 2 milliion pages on the wikipedia. Don't try to crawl the site, it won't let you. No robots allowed! Go to http://download.wikipedia.org and you...

In my previous post I mentioned that I found the Infrastructure Optimization blog. A few people have pointed out that I haven't actually mentioned what Infrastructure Optimization (IO) is. Fair call. Here follows the brief, mile high view. Infrastructure...

Just found their blog at http://blogs.technet.com/io/default.aspx The first line of the most recent post is funny (or not, while it's happening)... you can probably relate. :) “ Almost half of all unplanned service outages happen because of system...

Wow ... that's a long blog title, but it sums up this post nicely! :) There is a VPC ( Virtual PC ) available from the MSDN Subscriptions download area. Just do a search for “VPC” and you will find “ Visual Studio 2005 Team System VPC - Part 1 of 2...

I’ve been trying to figure out what to blog. Like everyone else in the world I can’t blog about confidential information I’m privy to from my employer and/or clients. The problem is that THIS content makes up about 90% of what I know about and deal with...

I actually found out about (and joined) Grant Holliday's new TFS mailing list a while ago, but I thought I'd share it with the tiny audience who already read my blog. :) "On Saturday morning, I had an idea. It’s now Sunday evening and it’s off the...

I've been chatting with a few guys I used to work with about the Enterprise Search capabilities of MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server). They wanted some info on how it works and what it looks like from a dev and admin perspective, programatically...

Hello and welcome! I am a consultant with the Microsoft Services team in Canberra , Australia . I was a little apprehensive about creating a blog because I didn’t think I really had much to say… but then I read David Lempher’s first blog post...