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A couple of weeks ago I was in Cambridge/UK for business meetings – I arrived the day before meetings started to give me some time to shake off jetlag and walk around the city. The city has many of the landmarks you would expect from a typical English
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Check out this Engadget article – If Microsoft made toasters Interestingly the toaster has a Microsoft Dynamics logo on the side… Perhaps this is the best thing since sliced bread… - Mike
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I’m working on a side project, trying to get some code up and running that uses an old software stack and was having some issues – I decided to write a quick e-mail to the developer that initially worked on the stack to see if he had some ideas on how
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I’ve temporarily disabled the blog e-mail contact form for my blog due to blog e-mail spam. I will re-enable at some point in the near future. if you want to send me questions you can do so at “mikehall @ microsoft.com” - Mike
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A couple of weeks ago a few people in the team had an international food tasting experience, starting with Spotted Dick and custard – This week we decided to step up a notch, trying “Baked Beans” from around the world, in this case three US bean varieties
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Someone at work decided it would be good to try out some international foods over the next couple of weeks, this weeks treat… see below. Next week – a comparison of Baked Beans (US vs. UK) [why does US beans have a lump of pork in the can?]. - Mike
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Yesterday I posted “ I am a Device ” to the blog, and got a comment back that “we are what we eat”, so we could be a cheeseburger, or a slice of lemon loaf, but we cannot be a “PC” – but there are a number of similarities between a PC and a person, some
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I've been in Cambridge, UK for the last few days, and spotted perhaps the best coffee cart in the world (see below). The coffee making kit is on the back of the car (click to get the large version of the image). Very cool! - Mike
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While waiting for the Starbucks iCup machine to do it's thing I noticed that the stack of cups precisely mirrored the number of bars on my cell phone... spooky! - Mike
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Found this Dilbert cartoon quite funny (not even remotely close though). - Mike
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Spotted at the opening ceremony of the Embedded Systems Conference in Shenzhen - a marching band, one of which was carrying a... Tuba! - I assume that this was tucked away and out of sight for the trip in the car to the conference center! ( see previous
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I arrived in Shenzhen/China at about 8pm last night for the Embedded Systems Conference China - Just across the street from the hotel there's an interesting road sign... Which includes a Speed Restriction sign (40kph) and a sign that clearly shows that
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The trip from Aachen to Nuremberg went pretty well, a few slow spots (around Frankfurt for example), and some heavy rain that slowed everything down. We did manage to make "reasonable progress" on more than one occasion - Mike Glass (back seat of the
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Today we finished our meetings in Aachen (Germany) at a good time, jetlag was catching up with Chris, Mike, and I, you could easily see that there were a number of very tired looking people in the meeting room. So we decided to go and eat somewhere in
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Yesterday I took a flight from London to Dusseldorf and met one of my colleagues (who shall remain nameless for now) who was going to drive us both to Aachen for meetings at the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) - We had an Audi A8 rental car
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