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This article in The Age says that my hometown has once again been ranked by The Economist as the world's most livable city! So why do I want to move to NYC? “ Often derided as Bleak City by Sydneysiders, Melbourne topped a survey of 130 cities...

From Roger Clarke in Canberra : “It's very likely that a project called SmartGate, conducted by the Australian Customs Service, will be trumpeted throughout the world as the good news that face-recognition technology has been waiting for. ...

The folks at LivingWithoutMicrosoft discover a 2002 study by Harvard Business School professors that actually says Microsoft has been successful because the products are pretty good. Shock horror. “... it is argued that Microsoft's success over...

My good mate Frank Arrigo has put together an OPML list of blogs from Australian developers !

A quick overview on the difference between Indigo and BizTalk from someone on the outside.

Further to that recent post about creating a music playlist RSS feed, I've gone ahead and set one up . At this stage its got a fairly recent playlist dump from my Nomad (warning - it's a large file, about 5000 tracks) and then a rough ranking of my favourite...

Gawker pokes fun at Salon's concern about the impact blogs are having on serious journalism. I didn't know such a thing still existed. [via Calcanis ]

Calcanis points to a new guide to getting the most out of Google . Having just come back from learning about state-of-the-art ways to build massive parallel clusters, I'm fascinated by the section on How Google Works .

secretGeek has a great anecdote from BillG .

Over the last few days I've been thinking (in my spare time) about possible models for viral marketing of new music. I've come up with one idea I'd like to throw out there and see what people think. What if there was some way for people to publish...

This article from Jan 30 at CNN .com contains an interesting statistic: “The largest cost will come from medium-to-small sized companies with 400 employees or less, said Andy Cummins, CEO of technology services firm U.S. Networks. “We think...

From now on this will be know as “Tyson's Rule“. I might adopt it myself.. even extend and embrace it to other forms. The mind boggles. I always wondered why Tyson was such a hit with the ladies and now I know.

Just heard that my blog ranked as the 7th most read blog on blogs.msdn.com in the last week of January (out of 206)! Here are my stats for that week: Aggregator views: 8851. Web views: 2709. I'm quite stunned. Thanks for the support folks.

Dan Gillmor's current post on Siliconvalley.com about MyDoom is interesting reading as are some of the comments attached to the post. Dan writes that he doesn't open any attachment that arrives in his email that he hasn't specifically requested. I also...

From Overclockers: “Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure G5 is a great computer, but I wanted a Dell for Christmas.“ via Jason Calcanis' blog . Update : Apparently it was all a hoax . Oh dear.

A colleague of mine, Jon Yeo (alas, no blog yet), points me towards Musicplasma , a graphical variation on the very useful theme of connecting you from one musical artist you like to another similar artist. I'm not sure yet of how accurate its reporting...

Nothing much new here for anyone reading Indigo blogs or who attended PDC, but worth reading anyway if you are interested in our current public positioning of Indigo.

This says a lot about the intelligence of some of the folks on Slashdot. Are they having a joke? Perhaps. But cheering on a virus is kind of like cheering on a terrorist. Via ExtremeTech .

shopping on Broadway today, found a great store called Yellow Rat Bastard and bought a couple of shirts, including this one . Oh mum, you'd be so proud.

wow, this is the power of blogging... Chris Pratley talks about how OneNote came about. Great post.

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At Cornell today I chatted with Basudev Chaudhuri who is a Senior Research Scientist in Software Development and Scientific Computing with a Cornell-based company called Gene Network Sciences . GNS “accelerates the drug discovery process by creating...

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A blogger from Japan writes a positive review after attending training on the soon-to-be-released BizTalk Server 2004.