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A field guide to geek types

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 1:30 PM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/09/a-field-guide-to-geek-types.aspx'; This is why my blog is called Geek in Disguise – I think :) Check out Wired’s guide to geeks and let know which you think I’m closest to Read More...
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Sony goes Thunderbirds

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:56 PM by stevecla01
I just got this in an email from Sony. It’s a pretty nice looking device but here’s what grabbed my attention “Freedom from wires” but the image shows two sets of headphones and one of them with wires. I think what they’re Read More...
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It all started here

Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 11:06 AM by stevecla01
    This week sees many people remembering the BBC Micro – for me the first real computer I ever dabbled with aged about 7 I think. We had a whole bank of these 8-bit, 128k units back at my school (Wirral Grammar) and marvelled at programming Read More...
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Free Wifi in London...Mapped

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 9:42 PM by stevecla01
  Handy info from Londonist: Free Wifi in London...Mapped ....just wish if was on Live Maps. Boo hoo :( Read More...
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WorldWide Telescope - the real boffins

Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 8:19 PM by stevecla01
  I've never been big on astronomy but this may change all of that. I tried to read A Brief History of Time a few years back and the astronomy thing was just beyond me. Perhaps software can help change that :) Robert Scoble cried when he saw this Read More...
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Buzzword Bingo: Zero-sum Game

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:47 PM by stevecla01
A while back I explained what Orders of Magnitude is all about as it's one of those overused but poorly understood terms. In the same vein I was pleased to see Mark Harrison's explanation of Zero Sum Gain. It's a phrase I hear a fair bit from people like Read More...
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My favourite new gadget

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:07 PM by stevecla01
I collected my Eye Fi card last week from my pal Ben Tamblyn and can't tell you how excited I am about this gadget - it's too cool for school. Though I didn't get to use it in Seattle much as I couldn't find an open (enough) network to configure the card, Read More...
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Zune Games

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:14 AM by stevecla01
This bodes well - XNA Studio developed games on Zune's. Engadget has some more details but as @kr8tr twittered "Write a game once and have it on the XBOX 360, the PC, AND the Zune?! Really. Amazing. Really amazing". Yup.  Pac Man would Read More...
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How Big Is Your Music Collection?

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:51 PM by stevecla01
I'd hazard a guess that some of my readers have pretty extensive (digital) music collections that they can boast of down at the pub. You can't fit all those tunes on your 80gb Zune or iPod right? Well you're not alone....how about this collection: 3 Million Read More...
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Reveal Wireless Keys

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:49 PM by stevecla01
  On the one hand this may seem like a curious program but twice this week I have found reason to want to use it - I was at a friends house who hadn't changed their default key and couldn't remember it and then my Mac stopped connecting to my access Read More...
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Information Architects - All Change

Posted Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:16 PM by stevecla01
  I think we can safely say the Information Architects team are no fans of Microsoft but it may be that their recent Trend Map may have some delays on the line if the Yahoo deal goes through. They claim that Microsoft will not be happy as "Passport" Read More...
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Quickly locking your Windows PC

Posted Saturday, February 02, 2008 1:03 PM by stevecla01
Okay, I know you can press Windows Key + L but I really like to have an icon in my taskbar for this little task so every time I install a Windows OS I tend to add this as one of my first tweaks. Why? Well I learnt early on at Microsoft that leaving your Read More...
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I'm a Comic

Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:01 PM by stevecla01
  Heroes Happen Here features tech savvy crime fighters like Lord Firewall who "stands between chaos and order" - groovy. The first cartoon above reminded me of myself. When people ask what I do at Microsoft I tend to say "stuff" Read More...
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Surfing on the bus

Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 2:47 PM by stevecla01
I've heard good things about the Connector buses running around the Redmond area that provide free wifi to Microsofties on their way to work. Not being a huge public transport user, I was delighted to find we had the same technology on the bus that took Read More...
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Microsoft is Comical

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:55 PM by stevecla01
  More and more product groups here at Microsoft are starting to understand the power of communities, social networking and viral. You could argue that we've been good at viruses for a while  but lets not go there. Meantime though, the http://www.itdevcomics.com Read More...
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