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Sunday, April 05, 2009 4:09 PM

My New Blog

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Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:07 AM

1 Month in

This week was one of wrap up and preparation. The end of Q3 for our financial year, preparing for a strong Q4, and all the next financial year planning that’s about to come crashing down, and that’s not to mention TechEd09 . Huge things planned there.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:30 AM

Introducing the Real Virtual Shave Team

Well we had “The Big Shave” yesterday, and whilst I’m still collating all of the photos and editing the video(s) for everyone, I did throw this quick video together to introduce (most of) the team… As you can probably tell from the brief snippets, the
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Friday, March 13, 2009 11:54 AM

Smackdown Crew goes Bald

Rick “Mad-eye Murdoch” Anderson and I, “Colonel Hannibal” from the Aussie “Mobile Smackdown” crew, are about to become bald. We’re participating in the Leukaemia Foundation’s annual “Shave for a Cure” at 12pm today in the office. You can join the team
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:00 PM

MyPhone

This week I was migrated back to a QWERTY keyboard driven WinMo phone. Thanks to our friends at Palm. It is an awesome device, but more on that in another post. For now I want to talk about the much vaunted new service, MyPhone. It’s in beta, so I did
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:56 PM

Counting the cost…

The thing about cycling to work, no matter the justifications, is that you actually have to get home again. There were times today that I seriously considered just taking the bike on the train, but I’m glad I didn’t So like any beginner at something,
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 3:04 PM

All things to all people?

Recently I got my hands on a Samsung i900 , aka the “Omnia” (which is Latin for “all” or “everything”) and I’ll be honest, I had been coveting this device since I first set eyes on it last August. Looking Good What’s not to desire? 5MPx camera with flash,
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:01 AM

3 Good Reasons

Over the last year or so, I’ve been considering cycling to work, and this morning made the first run. Whew. There are 3 reasons which led to this momentous outcome: Drop the spare tire . Yep, I’ve been up and down with weight, and of course consistent
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:55 AM

SWMUG Nostalgia Night - Preamble

Tonight, (Tue Jan 13) at the Sydney Windows Mobile Usergroup, we host our annual “Nostalgia Night.” As this is our first meeting of the year, at a time when vendors are showing off the future of technology at Macworld and Consumer Electronics Show, but
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:41 PM

Roadtest: Acer Aspire One

I’ve now been using this great little laptop for just over a week. Where last week I was asked “Which one did you get?” this week I’ve constantly been asked variations on the same question: “How does it perform?” “Do you like it?” “What would I do with
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:00 PM

SWMUG 2008 Christmas Parte

Back in January 2002, 8 intrepid geeks had coffee in a Lindfield Cafe at the inaugural meeting of what was then the Sydney PocketPC Usergroup. Tuesday night saw almost 50 people celebrating the continued success of the group from those humble beginnings.
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 5:52 AM

My new toy: Acer Aspire One

I did it! I followed my new rule for gadget buying. i.e. Divide the price of the gadget you desire by $100. Then consider the purchase for the resultant number of days. As it turns out, with the Aspire One, I considered for somewhat longer than the 5
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Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:27 PM

Shift Happens

By now you’ll have read/heard the news, that the team I work in, DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) has appointed a new Director for Australia. I.e. I have a new boss. My previous boss, Norbert Haehnel, has returned to his homeland of Germany to
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:08 AM

The Girl Effect

This week I’ve been given two great opportunities. The first was to deliver the closing keynote at the annual VITTA (Victorian IT Teachers Association) conference. Here I spoke about how to prepare our students for roles that don’t yet exist on technologies
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:03 PM

Sydney Windows Mobile Usergroup Christmas PARTY

The Details: When: Tuesday 9 th of December @ 6:15 pm Where: We meet at the Ablaze Grill & Bar @ Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park (formerly Fox  Studios), and then around 7:45 pm we head to the Comedy Store . Tickets are just $40 for members
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