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January 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:13 PM

Business Sunday investigates Corporate Blogging

This morning I was interviewed by Ali Moore for a story she is doing to be shown on Business Sunday about corporate blogging. Pretty normal, huh? I've done a bunch of these kind of interviews in the past for The Bulletin and Computerworld.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:02 PM

Proud Geek Dad Moment - Billy Get's His Tablet

Today I headed out with Billy to his new high school to collect his new Tablet PC   When we got it home and fired it up, I was pleasantly surprised - not only did they have all the latest powertoys and the experience packs (tablet experience packs,
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Friday, January 20, 2006 8:40 AM

1st MSDN Flash for 2006 is out

The first MSDN Flash of the year has just gone out. We have a guest editor, Finula Crowe, for this edition. I was off on holidays until this week and Finula kindly stepped in to get this out. Thanks Fin!!!   Ready for
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:47 PM

ASP.NET 2.0 resources

I got asked a question this week about resources for ASP.NET. This is a FAQ, so let's preserve it asp.net developer center on msdn web developer center on msdn australia “official” asp.net v2 site  msdn article on the asp.net 2.0 provider model
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:09 PM

[aus-dotnet] Code Camp Oz II: Request for Speakers!

Ah Code Camp. By all accounts, it was a wonderful get together last year in Wagga. and the boys are getting ready to do it all again April 23rd/24th 2006. Mitch has put out a call to speakers. More info on the official Code Camp Oz site From:
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:46 PM

MyHeritage.Com Face Recognition Fun

I saw a few posts flying around last week about myheritage.com (via Sanaz, Michael Coates, Robert Scoble, Channel9), so I thought I would try it out. I used 2 different photos and got 2 different results! What a surprise The first one matched me with
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:02 AM

Mix06 has flair

What's a conference without any flair these days - a lame one that's for sure.  Well Mix06 isn't going to be a lame conference. Infact, it is going to rock, and it has flair that rocks too. Have a look at this mixed collection: If you
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:38 PM

QMSDNUG Meeting - Tue 17th - Dave Apelt - Greg Low

Another User Group Meeting - this one is tonight!! QMSDNUG JANUARY MEETING NOTICE   Hi Folks,   Happy new year to you all! Our meeting this month will be Tuesday, the 17th January.   This month, we have two sessions.  
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:09 PM

K-JAM, Microsoft Voice Command, Bluetooth Headset and a registry hack

I scored a Bluetooth headset for Christmas from my kids (seems they were tired of me always getting caught talking on my phone while driving) for use with my K-JAM So, I installed Microsoft Voice Command, applied a little registry hack magic (thanks
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:24 PM

*FREE* Training for VS2005 and SQL 2005 from Drake Training

This offer just bubbled into my inbox. Better act quick if you are in Melbourne. 1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Date: Wednesday 25 January.Time: 9am-4.30pm. Location: Drake Training: Level 3, 455 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC, 3000. Cost: Free.Target
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:00 AM

Sydney .NET User Group Wednesday 18th January 2006

It's User Group Meeting time. Hope you can make it.  Sydney .NET User Group Wednesday 18th January 2006Microsoft's Virtual Earth Online MappingThere are over 50 apps that run on top of Microsoft's VirtualEarth online mapping service. This month
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Monday, January 16, 2006 2:44 PM

MVPs have the goods

Further to my earlier post about new MVPs, let me point you to a lovely story from one of our local Aussie MVPs, Darren Neimke. Turns out Darren had some free copies of VSTS to give out, and he then made a local developer very very happy. That's
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Monday, January 16, 2006 2:12 PM

New Year, New MVPS

One thing that happened while I was on leave, was the announcement of some new MVPs in Australia & New Zealand Adam Cogan - Visual Developer - Team System  Ben Hoffman - Windows Server System - Exchange Server Ben Walters - Microsoft
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Monday, January 16, 2006 11:02 AM

Hello 2006 - Back from my break

So, I find myself back at work following a few weeks off with my family and my Talking Boony. What's been happening while I was gone? [ Currently Playing : Mockingbird - Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits [CD1] (04:11) ]
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