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Nigel Watson, an Architect Advisor at Microsoft, based in Melbourne Australia.

October 2006 - Posts

Better living through sugar...
I'm all in favour of innovation, but this is going too far. Read More...
When words just aren't enough...
How about sending a cake instead? Any guesses on who the IE team sent this (poison-free) cake to ? Read More...
Princess is having a rant
Princess is having a bit of a rant over on blogspot about the shady dealings of a certain well-known internet-based mobile phone ring-tone outfit. These charlatans took funds out of a prepaid mobile phone account she holds, which would be cool except Read More...
Web vNext ARCast, and... what is Web vNext again?
While I'm on the subject of ARCasts, Check out Ron's audio ARCast ( part1 , part2 ) of the Tech.Ed 2006 Web vNext Panel with Rowan Simpson (of tradme.co.nz fame), George Moore (GM of Windows Live), and Scott Guthrie (GM for .NET). Great discussion, captured Read More...
CommSee architectural v-ARCast up on SkyScrapr
While Ron was visiting Australia in August, he spent a day chatting - on video - with the Commonwealth Bank's CommSee architecture team. I'm pleased to report that these conversations are now available online at SkyScrapr as an ARCast . It's well worth Read More...
SaaS presentation to the Sydney .NET User's Group
Thanks very much to Adam and Tim for inviting me to present at the Sydney .NET Users Group on Software as a Service (SaaS) on Wednesday night. It was great to see so many people there, and I thought that the discussion during and after the session was Read More...
Office ate my homework, Vista stuck a finger down it's throat... :)
I've been running Vista RC1 (5728) for the last week or so on my main laptop (a Tosh M4), and so far I've been pretty impressed with it. Perf and stability are both excellent, and I've had no major problems with drivers for my machine (unlike my early Read More...
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