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My festive geek gift list
19 December 08 11:12 AM
Everyone else does one of these, so I couldn’t resist throwing my gadget and geek desires onto HTML/RSS. Flip Mino HD This little beauty is an HD video recording device. It would be cool to start capturing more and more video moments both personally (family Read More...
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I'm 5 today...5 years at Microsoft
07 July 08 12:16 PM
(Image courtesy of HouseofSims ) I've been at Microsoft for exactly 5 years today. Doesn't time fly! What have I done since I started? Some highlights/history: Joined as an i- contractor to deliver technical events to students Built Project Hurricane Read More...
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My lack of blogging....
13 May 08 04:41 PM
I've been mad busy planning the UK Imagine Cup finals on the 5th June and haven't had a chance to stop....until we got a shipment of Popfly ducks for each of the attendees to the event! Thought it was worth a post :-) Read More...
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My love for Silverlight...
25 March 08 04:32 PM
...is so strong that I had umbrellas made for a recent event: (The pantone matches the nebula logo as well!) :-) Read More...
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Last.fm Comes to Vista Media Centre
25 March 08 10:20 AM
I'm a big fan of Last.fm and will be giving this a go on my home machine for listening to music. Last.fm Comes to Vista Media Centre ( Sarah Perez ) Read More...
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Herding cats at Microsoft
18 March 08 03:49 PM
I work for the United Nations apparently. I work in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group at Microsoft, or DPE (or D&PE if you are in the US) and people have a uniform response internally and externally - "Eh?". This article on C|net Read More...
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Off to Seattle
01 February 08 01:16 PM
It's been a manic few weeks recently trying to get the Imagine Cup Workshops going for the finalists in the UK Software Design category. They are up here on the UK Academic Team blog - we're looking forward to hosting these guys and seeing what they can Read More...
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Synergy - great for multi-PC setups like mine
06 January 08 08:27 PM
I've got a spiffing Dell XPS 420 as my main home machine and I've been spending a lot of time on it working on personal projects and being an ADD-type of person tend to do work stuff at the same time on my Lenovo laptop. I always struggled with having Read More...
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A little blog redirection
21 August 07 08:41 PM
I've been umming and ahhing about what to do with this now that I have changed roles and no longer getting to spend all my time with the fun world of Silverlight and WPF. I've had some great experiences and decent traffic through my blog, especially around Read More...
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Last.fm sells for 140m of her majesty's pounds
31 May 07 03:49 PM
One of my favourite music sites, Last.fm , has been bought by a US media company , CBS, for £140m ($280m). This is fantastic news for a number of reasons: they are a UK start-up and have great personality to boot; and they have some really cool software+services Read More...
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Me = Evangelism -> Marketing
18 May 07 02:07 PM
It's finally public knowledge, that I am moving away from pure evangelism (yeap, that's my job title!) and over to marketing! I currently spend a lot of time deep in technology (primarily Silverlight and WPF ) coding, learning it and talking about it Read More...
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Random presenting experience
17 May 07 03:49 PM
I thought it was too weird/funny not to post about. I was presenting yesterday on Silverlight to a group of about 100 developers attending under the MSDN umbrella . Unfortunately, I had come down with a pretty dodgy virus which meant I wasn't really on Read More...
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I've been blogging for ages
10 April 07 09:40 PM
Well, I'm nicely ticking along with blogging (over the 100 post mark) and I was doing some research into a program I used to run in the academic team called Project Hurricane which has all but disappeared off t'internet. So, I fired up the Wayback Machine Read More...
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It's me..at the MSDN roadshow
27 March 07 05:11 PM
I get the Parry photography experience... (I'm the dot at the front looking at the camera, everyone else is looking at me...or asleep :-)) MSDN Roadshow 2007 Comes Home Technorati tags: martin parry , mark johnston , msdn roadshow Read More...
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OT: Put a Linux Guru through pain (for charity...mate)
26 February 07 08:18 PM
Jono Bacon , Mr Ubuntu Community dude/ Herder of Cats /all-round-good-chap, is attempting to perform, record, mix and master an entire album by himself in 24 hours! And he's doing it for Comic Relief , a very noble charity and UK TV event. In good banter, Read More...
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