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Jorke pinged me with details of an event he and Professional Geek Nick Hodge are running in Melbourne next Wednesday night, aimed at discussing Microsoft's relationship with Open Source, the Open Source community, and how we as an organisation are embracing
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Got a report this evening (thanks, Michael) that the Australian Architecture Forum site is down. It'll be back online asap, so hold tight if you are trying to register, and keep checking back in with us. In the meantime, check this little fella out: We
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Dave recently pinged me on this little meme that's going around that lets you inflict random factoids about yourself on unsuspecting visitors to your blog. I'm up for it. The ground rules are as follows: Each player starts with eight random facts/habits
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I couldn't resist it. Check out Frank's blog for more TechEd LOLCATs madness .
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I'm all in favour of innovation, but this is going too far.
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How about sending a cake instead? Any guesses on who the IE team sent this (poison-free) cake to ?
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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
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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
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And in case you were wondering, here's Tech.Nigel. Yes, those are my undergarments - I've been working at home a bit lately :) Get your own Meego at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/teched2006/
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I've got a great idea for a new hit TV show that I'm seriously considering pitching to Endemol Southern Star . I'm calling it "Big Bother" - a working title until something better occurs to me. I think the main problem with the current Big Brother formula
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Peter Laudati has an excellent post discussing the ins and outs of getting code across from 1.1 to 2.0. One thing that I wasn't aware of was that the ASP.NET team recently released a new Web Application Project template for VS2005 that essentially replicates
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Following in Dave's footsteps of blogging self-inflicted injuries , I had a run-in with a garden tool on Anzac day that I thought I'd share. Think of it as a cautionary tale against gardening with only your limbic brain engaged. I'd spent the afternoon
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This evening I presented at the Victorian Dot Net User's Group on ATLAS . For those of you who attended who are interested in the code, it's attached to this entry. Also, I should thank Mr Glover for providing the basic materials/slides/resources for
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Happy new year everyone! I hope that everyone managed to get a break of some sort over the holiday period. If you were in Melbourne, then you probably experienced something similar to the picture below on the afternoon of the last day of 2005.... ;) This
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My mate Hugh just spent a weekend hanging out in Melbourne with Princess and I. Hugh works for an Australian company who build FIX (Financial Information eXchange) engines and assorted ancilliary software products. This generally means that he spends
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