Another Microsoft Blogger

I'm always excited about finding little apps that improve my productivity and this is my latest: ActiveWords . Check it out. It's a great little app that lets you associate text with pre-determined functions. Listening: Leonard Bernstein...

I mentioned in my post yesterday that I was pumped up about Frank Arrigo's presentation on our ISV strategy. I've asked him to provide some links to more info on what we are doing. Here they are: - http://www.microsoft.com/australia/partner/partnering...

Just got back from spending a few days up at the Gold Coast for Microsoft's Australia & New Zealand Partner Conference 2003 .   Sarah Bond, our E-business Server Product Manager and I presented a break-out yesterday on E- Business...

I'm up at the Gold Coast for a couple of days at the Microsoft Partner Conference at the Royal Pines Resort. Being an ex-Queenslander, I always snigger at the suggestion that QLD is "beautiful one day, perfect the next" and, as if on cue, as I arrived...

Kasparov lost to X3D Fritz in Game Two today of the Man-Machine World Chess Championship !

As someone who LIVES on my Pocket PC Phone these days, I sadly had to take it in for repairs for the second time in a month today... all my fault, it seems I am the world's biggest klutz! Beware: while they are packed with HEAPS of features... robustness...

as I was leaving "Matrix Revolutions" the other night, mentally adding the Wachowski Brothers' names to the "Filmakers Who Betrayed My Faith" list (current members are Lucas and Chris Carter), I suddenely had a realization that made...

Further to my recent post about Ebay becoming the 11th largest retailer in the USA, I should share my latest contribution to their coffers... my latest ebay conquest ... or should I say my latest capitulation? Anyone else out there appreciate...

I just had a great IM chat with Mark Baartse who is the Online Platform Manager at Microsoft Australia. He's apparently a man with a vision - to have our local CEO, Steve Vamos, as a blogger. I think it's a great idea to have Microsoft execs blogging...

about time someone introduced a new online service in this country! I recently signed up with Meteor Entertainment . They are one of the 3 new services in Oz where you can order rental DVD's online and they will mail them to you... then you return...

The one, the only, Frank Arrigo, my good buddy, has a blog here . (when I figure out how to work the blogroll on this thing I will add him ;-)... Frank is a long long long-time Softie, with a long list of important jobs behind him, including being...

According to this article , "Virginia Tech's decision to build a supercomputer out of 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5s -- a true break from the architecture of traditional, mainframe supercomputers -- allowed the university to cut its costs in half . According...

As an old dotcommer, it's very exciting for me to see the news recently that Ebay is now the 11th largest U.S. retailer . A realization of the dotcom vision of a new brand of retailer with no inventory.