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a weblog by cameron reilly
February 2004 - Posts
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It's always an honour to be Scobled . :-) Thanks Robert. Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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My mate Darien has been talking up the potential of High Performance Computing using Windows in Malaysia. Go Darien ! Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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. Read More...
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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 Open Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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. Read More...
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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 Read More...
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More on DJ Danger Mouse's “Grey Album”. Accoring to greytuesday.org : “Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24 hours in protest of EMI's Read More...
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I've been trying for a couple of years to figure out what kind of tattoo I should get. My sister got a bluebird on her foot a year ago. I realize I am going to have this for the rest of my life and so I want to choose carefully. Recently I've been thinking Read More...
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I've been arguing this myself for a couple of years and it's good to see music industry analysts starting to agree . Having a physical cd is of little interest to me these days. They just clutter up my house. If I am going to buy music, I would rather Read More...
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There’s been a lot of hoo-hah going on over the last month about DJ Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album , a remix of Jay Z's Black Album with the Beatles' White Album. It’s obviously illegal , but what is most interesting to me is the amount Read More...
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Interesting new stats being reported on hacks against Linux. I've also read these reports in Slashdot recently. What I'm most interested in understanding is: who are these people who are hacking Linux and what is their motivation? I can kind of understand Read More...
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Here's some more interesting positive press from The San Diego Channel about calorie restriction as a way to live longer, healthier lives. Read More...
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Billboard has this article on the Lou Reed live CD, project name “Rock'n'Roll Animal 2: Gimme Some Sugar”, official title “Animal Serenade”, which is due March 23! I can't wait for this CD. I saw Lou's last tour and it was an amazing Read More...
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okay, not as funny as most I've seen (my blog must be too boring), but here are some of the recent Google searches that lead people here during the last few days... it's an interesting glimpse into where some folks are at right now... "purpose of life" Read More...
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My erstwhile colleague Jason McConnell just pointed out to me that /. seems to be down ?? I'm getting this message: 503 Service Unavailable The service is not available. Please try again later. UPDATE (2.25pm AEST) - it's back up! Read More...
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Tonight I was fortunate enough to catch Jamie Oehlers ' 2nd last gig in Melbourne before he heads off to spend a few years gigging around Europe. Oehlers, who is from Perth in Western Australia originally, but has lived and played in Melbourne for the Read More...
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I'm reading Buzz Bruggeman's updates of Demo 2004 . It sounds like lots of cool stuff has been shown there. And, by the way, if you haven't already tried it, check out Buzz's product Activewords . I'm using it more and more to speed up the way I work. Read More...
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ShareALot is a new photo sharing service that's been getting some column inches today due mostly to the launch of their product at DEMO (and don't get me started about how upset I am that I'm not there in person...). ShareALot is promoted as as application Read More...
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Finally Microsoft has a cool ad . Down here in Australia we haven't been fortunate enough to be frustrated by the first SPOT watches, so I am fascinated by reviews like the one Scoble posted recently . When I was in NYC recently the place was SMOTHERED Read More...
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I posted recently about the long-term social implications of integrated camera phones. Apparently one of them might be a reduction in flashers. This from the Atlanta Journal : " An Alpharetta woman thought she was helping a lost motorist over the weekend Read More...
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I often wonder what it must be like being a child of the online generation. How will it change your outlook never knowing life before the web. What vistas will open up to them? How does it impact your psyche having always had information at your fingertips? Read More...
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We announced last week that the project to combine our e-business products into a single suite has been stopped for the time being. This article in CRN states we made the decision in response to customer input who were not so interested in buying a software Read More...
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Darien is an E-business Technology Specialist with Microsoft Malaysia and he's just started his first blog . We met recently at Ithaca but he's an Adelaide boy! Funny where you meet people. I'm very keen to see more non-Redmond MSFT'rs blogging. Not everyone Read More...
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This is an interesting post and it reminds me a lot about the book I've been trying to write in my spare time for the last couple of years. For the last ten years I've made an informal study of Napoleon's life and career. I must have read 50+ books on Read More...
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#1. streamline the processing of paper forms you can't totally eradicate yet The paperless office. Remember that? We're still working on it. And sometimes there are paper forms that you can't get rid of just yet. For a variety of reasons. Some legal. Read More...
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nice Technorati hack which shows the top Amazon products discussed in the last 24 hours. Read More...
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A colleague of mine, who recently joined Microsoft from Sun, was explaining to me yesterday something known as "S.I. Compensation". This is where a Systems Integrator (S.I.) is compensated financially by a technology vendor whose products they sell. It's Read More...
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I hope you will excuse this indulgence, but I am fascinated by the Janet Jackson "event", though for different reasons than most. (okay, this is your cue to click on your next RSS feed if you are one of those "hey this is supposed to be a technology blog Read More...
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As anyone who reads my blog can probably tell, I’m not a developer. Neither am I a technical evangelist. I don’t write books. I don’t write code. I don’t speak at many events. I’m not a MCSE , MCP or MVP. I’m what Microsoft internally calls a “solution Read More...
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From RebelGeekz : "I would like my ideal home to have one box in a hidden place, only one, that will be the main brain of my Home Information System. Picture it like a black cube with some green LEDs indicating the brain's temperature and some other unimportant Read More...
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I'm a big fan of Wolfram's work in "A New Kind Of Science". Of course, I don't pretend to understand anything he's saying, but I do love the pretty pictures... Anyways... he's released the entire contents of the book online . Not only is the book up there, Read More...
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see AMG for CD details. I saw Blanchard play in NYC and he has a great sound which this CD captures perfectly. Read More...
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This is an interesting article in Wired about a guy called John Sperling who is leaving his $3 billion fortune to research. Sperling wants us to live longer lives, so he is investing in cloning and genetic research. It's great to see someone in the private Read More...
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According to ZDnet , the offices and homes of the Sharman Networks folks were raided a couple of days ago. Read More...
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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, Read More...
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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. This email Read More...
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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 Read More...
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My good mate Frank Arrigo has put together an OPML list of blogs from Australian developers ! Read More...
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A quick overview on the difference between Indigo and BizTalk from someone on the outside. Read More...
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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 Read More...
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This is a fairly recent dump of the playlist on my Nomad. I'd say my favourite artists (judging by the number of tracks I have of each artist) would be: Lou Reed Van Morrison Van Halen / David Lee Roth Vince Jones Tom Waits The Rolling Stones The Beatles Read More...
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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 ] Read More...
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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 . Read More...
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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 new Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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. Read More...
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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. Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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. Read More...
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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 Read More...
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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. Read More...
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