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March 2008 - Posts

SharedView is very cool.
Every once in a while I am blown away by something.  Not because it is the latest and greatest, but because it does what it does in such a simple and easy to use way... this is one of those things. SharedView is a very nifty little remote application Read More...
Who's the kiwi?
Saw this chap ask Steve B a question at Mix ... he sounded like a kiwi ... I mean he used "Wicked" and a bunch of other kiwi'isms. Great question too! :) http://visitmix.com/blogs/News/Watch-Steve-Ballmer-and-Guy-Kawasaki-Live/ Read More...
Floor cleaning robots...
We moved into our new house last week and it is a lot bigger than the last. That means lots of vacuum cleaning. So becoming more accustomed to being lazy in my old age ... there was only one thing for it... a Roomba & a Scooba. Floor cleaning robots Read More...
What do Mix 08, Silverlight, the Beatles & New Zealand all have in common?...
At Mix08 today Hard Rock demo'ed their new web based Silverlight 2.0 application that allows a user to browse (in amazing detail) their catalogue of rock history. ( http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/ ) If you zoom into the middle left of the bigger image Read More...
It almost made me cry too.... kinda...
Scoble recently had a wee cry about a new Microsoft Research project called World Wide Telescope that he saw prior to it being announced. See here: http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/what-made-me-cry-microsofts-world-wide-telescope/ Well, today I got a Read More...
My Hugh MacLeod sketch ...
At the Office Developers Conference a few weeks back Hugh MacLeod was at the attendee party drawing stuff for people on business cards. If you don't follow Hugh you can here: http://www.gapingvoid.com/ Here is my drawing: Read More...
B visits campus
My good friend Brendon, from New Zealand is over in the Seattle at the moment for next weeks SharePoint conference. He runs a Gold Partner back home called Provoke. They are doing awesome SharePoint work and delivering some screaming solutions such as Read More...
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