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May 2008 - Posts

PDC 2008 – Details Are Now Up

http://www.microsoftpdc.com Since 1991, the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) has been Microsoft’s premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects. Attend the PDC to understand the future of the Microsoft platform and to exchange
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Thanks to Photojunkie for taking my picture @ MESH

Toronto photographer PhotoJunkie was at MESH taking portraits with his old-school film gear and he asked me to be on of the subjects… thanks for the pic ! Credit:  Photojunkie, May 2008
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Windows 7 Multi-Touch Demo From D6 Conference

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
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EnergizeIT vs. Anime North = Geek/Nerd Heaven

Ok – this made for a very strange mix of people outside the Toronto Congress Centre.  Saturday was EnergizeIT 2008 and 1200 of Canada’s technical professional community were there in force.  At the same time, Anime North was underway
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Press: MSDN Canada Code Awards and Technet Canada Innovation Awards

Canadian software developers win big time in technology contests A powerful case management system for the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Canada's first critical care information system snagged the top prizes at two recently concluded technology
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Bill Buxton makes a surprise appearance at MESH08

Microsoft Research guru Bill Buxton (well known author and all around big brain ) dropped in at MESH08.  There is a great video of his talk with Nora Young from the CBC show Spark .  Bill is always an engaging speaker.  The question posed
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More On EnergizeIT

EnergizeIT Shows Why Anything is Possible Within the Canadian IT Community Hosted by Microsoft Canada, annual event is designed to educate, recognize leaders in the community, and showcase the latest technologies MISSISSAUGA, ON – May 20, 2008 –
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My continued love of the Dell M1330

My team and I have come to a clear conclusion – the vast majority of really happy Vista users are also M1330 or M1530 users.  Seriously, when I talk to somebody and they say that they are loving their Vista experience they always seem to answer
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T-1 Day to EnergizeIT!!!

Saturday is EnergizeIT our annual IT Community event.  I will be on stage kicking off the day, talking about how we are going to help make you successful over the course of the next year and handing out the MSDN and TechNet awards with Phil Sorgen
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New photography show @ on10.net – ShutterSpeed

ShutterSpeed Episode 01
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Interesting Fast Company Article on our new ad agency…

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/126/believe-it-or-not-hes-a-pc.html?page=0%2C0
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Public Launch Of The Worldwide Telescope – Seriously Cool

The Worldwide Telescope project from Microsoft Research is now available.  It is simply incredible.  If you are into astronomy or not you should check this out.  The guided tours are a particular highlight.  This is an amazing project
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An Interesting Fact About The “Blackberry Fund”

        Rick talks about the recent announcement of the fund here .  It’s a $150M fund to drive mobile software/technology innovation. It’s a great idea and I am proud to see it headquartered north of the border. I

EnergizeIT 2008 – Are you going?

www.energizeit.ca This is our “capstone” event for the year (remember, when I say year, I am talking fiscal year – July – June). EnergizeIT is the premier event for Canada’s IT Technology Professionals.  This year's

Just Geeky: Family Guy Enters The Matrix

Too good not to share.
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mesh (no, not the Live Service, the conference)

  It is ironic that we announced a new (amazing) product/service called Live Mesh at the same time, but the MESH conference in Toronto is just around the corner.  The agenda looks really solid.  I like MARS as a venue, but I hope they have

On CP24 talking about Dreamspark…..

I was on CP24 yesterday talking about DreamSpark which is a program that enables students to download Microsoft developer and design tools at no charge. Video: Dreamspark From Microsoft

Rick & Christian on Channel 10

Over the last few months there has been a Microsoft-wide contest to encourage people to “improve the art of the demo”.  Two of our team – Rick and Christian – came in second place.  Not bad!!  The video is now up
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