I'm looking for blibbet -era Microsoft memorabilia. Anything's good. Prefer software. But business cards. Stickers. Boxes. Whatever. Don't ask why. Okay, Yes I'm a geek. Just ping me if you've got anything you want to get rid of. But it has to have the...

I agree with Paschal L that Amazon's RSS feeds are a very cool development. I'm still waiting to see who the first large 'traditional' non-media businesses are to pick up on RSS. I was speaking with Agent Smith yesterday about how he should use RSS at...

Well Scoble certainly knows his stuff. Since I changed the title of my blog, I've gone from #40 "Microsoft blogger" on google to #4. Followed closely by my Aussie mate, Frankarr !

Graeme Philipson in The Age reports: "Last week, the Australian Computer Society released its second annual survey of employment in the IT industry… The ACS data shows unemployment in the IT industry at more than 10 per cent, around twice the national...

This article in AdAge dissects Mel Gibson's marketing campaign around his controversial film, The Passion of The Christ, "... which opened in 3,000 theaters on Feb. 25, Ash Wednesday, took in $26.5 million in 24 hours -- a historic benchmark topped only...

Ovum's comments on the DoJ's negative decision on the ORCL hostile takeover of PSOFT is interesting. "Does it change anything? In the main, no."

" eBay and Microsoft today invited third-party developers to tap into the Web services capabilities of both the eBay platform and the Microsoft Office System to enhance trading on eBay. With the combined power of the two platforms, developers now have...

Tinderblog points us towards this useful app: Cookin' With Google . Enter in a couple of ingredients you find in your fridge, press a button, and it presents you with a list of recipes. Which reminds me to tell you of my latest vegetarian recipe du jour...

Scoble says when you google "Microsoft Blogger", he is #3. I am only #40. So I changed the name of the blog. Let's see what happens.

Tony, the insurance assessor from AAMI, came to our house this afternoon to determine how much they are going to pay out from the burglery. I was impressed when he pulled out his Tablet PC and started to fill out the claim. While he confessed that he...

this looks like a handy plug-in for Outlook : "Add Contacts automatically adds e-mail addresses to the contact folder when you reply a message and/or send a new message."

It's always an honour to be Scobled . :-) Thanks Robert.

Frank Bajak from AP writes this article on RSS . Quotes Reinacker and Scoble (source: Scoble ). Most interesting analogy for me was between RSS readers and Netscape circa '94. Which makes me think - which large corporates are using RSS to publish corporate...

Dylan talks about some of the things he discovered during his recent visit to Redmond. Among the things he found out were that none of his friends at Microsoft blogged, had heard of Scoble or used RSS aggregators. This doesn't surprise me. I talk to colleagues...

When my house was burgled earlier this week, the only irreplacable item they took was the miniDV tapes that held 12 months of moments from the lives of my 3-year old twins, Hunter and Taylor. Riding their first proper bicycles. The Christmas they got...

Wouldn't it be interesting if all of the items that were stolen from my house had been RFID'ed? And the pawn stores were required by law to check the RFID tags on any items brought in for sale. If they could check the ID details on the RFID tag and somehow...

Literally. My house got burgled yesterday while we were all out. First time for me. The thief didn't take much. $500 cash. $5000 worth of DVDs and CDs. But the thing that busts me up is that when they took my miniDV video camera, they took with the case...

A Microsoft Certified Gold Partner in Australia, Strategic Data Management (SDM) , recently helped us put together this case study of the brilliant work they did with the South Australian WorkCover Corporation . "The solution, known as ePMC, or Electronic...

Simonyi is, of course, a living legend. Simonyi was employed by Microsoft Corporation from 1981, where he held titles of Director of Application Development, Chief Architect, and most recently, Distinguished Engineer. While at Microsoft, Simonyi hired...

According to this article in CRM Daily, a new Yankee Group survey found that 34 percent of I.T. spending this year will focus on outward-facing applications that improve customer and supplier interactions. Apparently they expect to see a shift away from...

Don't you hate it when you have some technical issue and you procrastinate getting it resolved and then, when you do finally get around to it, it only takes minutes to sort out!? My home ADSL connection has been slooooow for the last couple of months...

From Microsoft PressPass : “Like the previous version of the product, BizTalk Server 2004 will be offered in four editions: Enterprise, Standard, Partner and Developer. The pricing for these editions is on par with the 2002 version, with ERP...

Forty-four McDonald's restaurants in Australia will offer Telstra mobile customers (apart from pre-paid) and people with an approved credit card wireless broadband internet access from today as part of a partnership with Telstra. Source: The Age

Bernard Wong pointed us towards this video demonstrating some of the current capabilities of humanoid robots. This has got to make you think. I've been following the progress with Honda's ASIMO robot for the last few years and the advances are amazing...

Jeffrey R. Harrow, writer of the very excellent “ The Harrow Technology Report “, has written this article on the current state of "Radio Frequency Identification Tags" (RFID Tags). I've been trying to keep up to date with RFID over the past...