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NSW Internship 2009 Information Night

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Are you a final year Medical Student looking towards an Internship with the NSW Health System in 2009? Then come along on the 22nd May and get the information that you're looking for!

Thanks to Nicholas Rayner for getting Microsoft involved in this info night.

Long Zheng on Windows ME

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Oops, I am going to refrain from dissing Windows ME in the future.
Sorry, Long. You are right.

DG.TV rocks.

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

The Delicate Genius has a small digital video camera, and he's not afraid to use it!
Go have a watch and listen as he interviews interesting people, in his own style.

Now, LOLZ aside: Working for Microsoft

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

After this excellent and funny video, many former work mates ask me what its like to work for Microsoft. The chutzpah to take time to make a video like this is in itself a testament to the cultural state of Microsoft. Well, some parts at least.
Rory Blyth, formerly of the Channel 9 team, writes what [...]

What’s it is *really* like working at Microsoft

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

From Tina, on10.net and other people in DPE Redmond:

Life At Microsoft - The Truth Revealed

General Melchett goes Vista Ultimate SP1

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Whilst General Melchett has been Vista x64 from birth, we Microsoft people were recently given early access to the final Vista Service Pack 1.
Last night, I downloaded the updater. Backed up General Melchett. Double clicked. And watched.
So, firstly a note to all. When the installer says 1. Several Reboots and 2. About an hour - [...]

Long Weekend of Geek-ery

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

The above is Liam's new Garry's Mod Server (THEGRID) in the process of being re-animated. New 350Gb PATA drive into the old Dell 5150. PATA is finicky: This master/slave mode plus correct ribbon cables makes the process harder than you would think. Windows XP SP2, Remote Desktop and we are away.
Also, Kudos to Microsoft Activation [...]

School starting: New PC

Friday, January 25th, 2008

After success building my own PC, with a Quad-core Intel Q6600 processor: it was time to update Liam's old PC (Dell 5150 with an old Pentium 4 HT processor)
Using the same case and power supply, but a different memory and motherboard configuration (P35 Gigabyte) the build process was relatively quick. Fresh install of Windows XP, [...]

aoeth does some cool stuff

Friday, January 25th, 2008

... I forgot to subscribe to his blog. As I owe him a wedding present, I am now subscribed.

A New Book on my Boss’ Desk

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Eeeek!

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