Technorati Tags: Windows Touch , Silverlight , Tricky Business , Microsoft Technology Centre A friend of mine who teaches at a primary school in Leeds is frustrated with the amount of time she gets with her pupils at registration. “I’d love to have more...

Moon director Duncan Jones won ‘Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer’ at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards – after watching it at the weekend, it’s new on my list of top 100 movies. I love a good Sci Fi, so it gets a certain amount...

I own a pair of Nike ID’s and love them – now me and thousands of other females are going to go mad for two – yes two new online stores that are launching in March where anyone can design, create and share their own shoes - Upper Street and iCreate-Shoes...

The good new is the results of the 2009 Barbie Global Career Survey are in, and ‘Computer Engineer Barbie’ won the popular vote, helped along by The Register , no less.  According to the Barbie Media website, Barbie “first broke the ‘plastic ceiling...

Technorati Tags: spatial search , streetside photos , flickr , blaise aguera y arcas , bing Imagine you’re out and about exploring a new city – you orient yourself and then discover what you can do and where you want to go as well as how to get there...

Amber MacArthur has published Top 5 ways not to be annoying on Twitter . They’re mostly common sense but useful all the same, and I have one more to add that’s actually less about being annoying and more about not being trigger happy with the old keyboard...

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Viral joined Microsoft in July 2006, moving over the pond to the UK DPE team in August 2007. LA to Reading… wow, his job must be amazing. What’s your area of focus - and why? I wish I knew! Joking aside, I was hired to be the SharePoint/Office evangelist...

Eric joined the UK DPE team in July 2008 but spent the previous 12 years working with Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) at Microsoft. What’s your area of focus - and why? In January 2010 I started to focus full time on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform...

I’ve had this post in draft for a few days now, so this is blogging lesson No.1 for me – write up what you want to say during the event and publish it asap, otherwise someone will beat you to it ;o) Last Thursday was my first event as a Microsoft Evangelist...

I grabbed Andrew Fryer and he kindly let me interview him on camera – you may recognise Andrew from his videos on PowerPivot Cookery and YY: Introducing Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 . As my first interview on camera I’ve kept it simple, but now I know...