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Friday, July 29, 2005 12:11 PM

Escape from Yesterworld : Enough Already, Yes I Have Seen It

If I get another person sending me a link to the Escape Yesterworld site I will scream. Of course I have seen it, what do you think I do live in a cave or something!!! Yes, it's funny. Yes, it's viral. Yes, I get the joke. Check it out at http://www.escapeyesterworld.com/
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Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:37 PM

Tech.Ed Flair T-Shirt Competition

We have had some excellent entries in the Tech.Ed Flair T-Shirt competition. I had to put them all onto my blog. Great work all of you. Week 1 Winners Tuesday 19 July - Monday 25 July 2005  
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Thursday, July 28, 2005 12:45 PM

Ready, Set, Download : Windows Vista Beta 1 on MSDN

You've seen the news, now download the bits from MSDN Subscriber Downloads and TechNet Downloads ... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/default.mspx And while you are downloading, have a look at the Windows Vista Dev Center on MSDN or
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:56 PM

Back in Oz and Back Online

Today I got home from my trip to Atlanta. What a tiring trip. I'm trying to stay awake until tonight so that I can adjust my circadian rhythm. It was terrific to catch up with Robert Scoble yesterday in Atlanta. We had a great chat about life the universe
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Monday, July 25, 2005 2:17 AM

Onoj has a new gig - he's one of us now

On the shuttle coming back from the attendee party at Six Flags Over Georgia I bumbed into fellow aussie Jonathan Wells. Jono is a PM in the Developer Division, working for John "Grumpy" Montgomery, focusing on mobility, he setup the Smart Client
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Monday, July 25, 2005 1:52 AM

It's all Small Virtual Earth after all

So, I am sitting in the CNN Center Plaza in Atlanta (My Location on Virtual Earth), drinking a tall Americano from the local Starbucks, waiting to meet Robert Scoble - we hooked up, he got his departure time wrong. Anyways, I turn on my laptop and access
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Monday, July 25, 2005 12:12 AM

Wrapup : MGB Atlanta 2005

I'm putting down my thoughts following the past few days at MGB here in Atlanta. It was a 3 day event - I've already covered some stuff about the Big Day, but I failed to mention a few other hilights from the sessions, like MSN Virtual Earth and
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Sunday, July 24, 2005 11:32 PM

Star Cross Geek Bloggers - or How I Almost Meetup With The Scobleizer

Yesterday (Saturday) was the final day of MGB (my summary of events is coming soon). Robert Scoble was in Atlanta presenting a session and then was heading out to a local Geek Dinner he arranged. I tried to setup a time to meet him during the
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Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:19 AM

Wow - Wikipedia knows about Windows Vista too

I hinted at Longhorn's new name in my last post, andn the blogosphere has been overloaded by the news, but the thing that I found interesting is that there is a Wikipedia entry for Windows Vista. I know, it's un update of the old Longhorn entry, but man,
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Friday, July 22, 2005 4:16 PM

The Big Day : MGB Atlanta 2005

How can I describe this day? It's hard, as I am a bit tired, but I'll just write what comes out, stream of consciousness style.... 12 Hour in the Georgia Dome Presentations from all the senior VPs Spanking Demos of upcoming products, such as "Office
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Monday, July 18, 2005 12:35 PM

Atlanta bound

Lots of Microsoftees are getting ready to head to Atlanta for the annual Microsoft Global Briefing, or as we call it, MGB. I made the trip to Atlanta last year as well. MGB is held annually at the start of a financial year and usually in one of
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:25 PM

WeFly 247 available for order in Australia

w00t! We now have WeFly247 available for Aussie developers.. This free DVD contains everything you need to know to build fully functional applications using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and features recorded presentations, source code and step by step
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 1:21 PM

Aussie upgrade pricing for VS 2005

The latest MSDN Flash is baked and going out now. It has some of the local (AUSSIE) upgrade pricing for VS 2005, for MSDN subscribers. [ Currently Playing : Kiss Off - Violent Femmes - Viva Wisconsin (04:29) ]
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:55 PM

Big update to Aussie .NET Blogger OPML

Inspired by my TagCloud mania, Grant Holliday created a Readify Tag Cloud which give me motivation to update the Aussie .NET Blogger list with the outstanding Readify bloggers that I had missed so far. I think I now have the whole set after adding
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:43 PM

I'm addicted to Tag Clouds

After signing up earlier today with Tag Cloud, I begun playing around with other collections. It is addictive The bloggers from ANZ DPE Microsoft Bloggers on BLOGS.MSDN.COM All feeds that I am subscribed to Robert Scoble's Main
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:56 PM

Watching the conversation

Last week the whole team came together for a bunch of meetings in Sydney. In one session we traded stories on tactics and techniques we used to get our job done. I shared with the team what I do to keep a watch on the blogosphere. Just like Scoble, I
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 1:19 PM

Tag Clouds, the Aussie .NET Bloggers and me

There's a lot of buzz around folksonomy and social tagging services, such as we see in Flickr or del.icio.us, and a lot of terrific applications are appearing around this One cool app I have stumbled upon is Tag Cloud, which is an an automated Folksonomy
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:00 PM

TechEd Australia 2005 Agenda

Chuck has posted the current agenda for TechEd Australia. Thanks Dude! So, spread the word. It's going to be big If you are going, don't forget to proudly show your flair and register at Teched Bloggers Technorati Tag: TechEdAU [ Currently Playing
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:53 AM

Review time - ranking those you love

During this time of year Microsoft goes through the annual review process. Other Microsoft managers have written their thoughts on this process - Microsoft's 3.0 (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Curve), Microsoft Stack Ranking is not Good
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Monday, July 11, 2005 12:32 PM

ANZ Imagine Cup 2005 winner

During the MEDC event in Sydney, I was one of the judges for the Image Cup finals. The winning team was Team Doug, with ‘Colle’, which makes it easy to create and share flash cards, provides automated and intelligent training and allows for collaboration
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Friday, July 08, 2005 3:28 PM

Biztalker's pls talk to us

There's been a few posts regarding open consulting positions at Microsoft Australia, based in Sydney and Canberra - Matt and Mick have led the charge with the call. Prospective applicants would need to "demonstrate strong consulting experience and
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Friday, July 08, 2005 12:30 PM

Scoble and Mr Ballmer

Last week Steve Ballmer was in Australia, talking to staff, press, partners and Business Sunday. Today he's talking to Robert Scoble on Channel 9. Developers, developers, developers [ Currently Playing : Dangerous Game - Kylie Minogue - Intimate
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Friday, July 08, 2005 11:10 AM

Nine MVPs!

What the? I got a note this week about another MVP joining Readify - this time it is Ken Schaefer, one of our IIS MVPs. This makes it now a total of 9 MVPs working for Readify. Mitch has a good post which explains the phenomenon of Readify being
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Monday, July 04, 2005 10:55 AM

More MVPs than you can shake a stick at.

Last week I posted about Readify having seven MVPs on staff. Well, things changed over the weekend. They now have 8. Congratulations to Martin Granell on his new appointment as Solutions Architect MVP. How do I know this? Well Mitch, Greg, Kim, Joseph
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Friday, July 01, 2005 11:37 AM

Hello FY06

One fiscal year ends, and another begins. And I'm not the only one excited by this. For me, this means staff reviews, a new budget to spend and finalising plans for the next 12 months. Gosh I have been busy since I came back to work! [ Currently Playing
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