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I spend online therefore I work online

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Acquis­i­tions today. I hope Avril isn’t read­ing this:
1. Win­dows Home Server from Tran­quil PC
After much pro­cras­tin­a­tion, I’ve decided to buy some­thing that’s already built. And isn’t going to require lots of coal to be burnt to keep the thing going.
2. Meraki Stand­ard Mesh
All the cool kids were doing it, hon­est! Attempt­ing to wire up Liam whilst he is at […]

Windows Live Chat on Windows Mobile

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Ima­gine: you are out hav­ing a pleas­ant din­ner with your parents-in-law. One thing leads to another, and you start play­ing with your new toy: Win­dows Mobile 6.0 and my new Palm Treo 750.
Minutes before leav­ing the house, I had down­loaded and installed the Win­dows Live cli­ent for Win­dows Mobile into my Treo, and had yet […]

Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Assoc –Conference

Monday, August 27th, 2007

As Simon Hig­gins came down with the ‘flu over the week­end, and I had not been any­where need a TAB or horses, I volun­teered to present. ASCCA here we come!

Hmmm, 45 minutes on Vista. I think I am going to show some inter­est­ing things in Win­dows Vista plus do some vox-pop on Seni­ors. See if a […]

A Geek’s 4.5 Days in Perth

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Whilst driv­ing from Perth air­port to the Hotel on Sunday, I determ­ined that I haven’t been in Perth since late 2005. Nearly 2 years. Perth is greener now.
My first visit to Perth was in 1993. I think I’ve been here at least 27 times through my last 4 employ­ers.
The Dux­ton Hotel’s high-speed inter­net access is […]

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Thursday, July 26th, 2007

AIMIA: “Dis­rupt­ive tech­no­logy — your life mashed up. Decod­ing the con­sumer. ”
Thanks to Mr Pod­cast, Leslie Nas­sar, there is a per­man­ent record of the panel. More “rep­res­ent” than “present”. I hope I assisted people in think­ing.
http://tinyurl.com/2dfc3d

Snippet on IronRuby: Aussie code inside

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

In ScottGu’s com­ments to his excel­lent post, he men­tions that Microsoft licensed some of the QuT Ruby.NET work! w00t! Aus­sie code lives inside Iron­Ruby. Well done, Dr Wayne Kelly and team.
New Microsoft hire (start­ing in Septem­ber), Scott Hansel­man, is also get­ting into the Ruby-way.
Also, Miguel de Icaza gives a big tick to the pro­ject.
Tech­nor­ati Tags: […]

Some Monday Links

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Aliv­etec (That’s the Gold Coast health gad­get guys) go lar­ger than The Geek Stor­ies: ABC’s Good Morn­ing Amer­ica. MSR + Aus­tralian good­ness goes really large! A phone that tells you when you are not breath­ing. W00t!
John Lam gives an update on Iron­Ruby. The first drop is avail­able now. LOLCODE, Ruby, Python. A dif­fi­cult choice!
Want to […]

AUReMIX07: The Movies

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Photo: delic8genius
Just before I depart for a hol­i­day, I’ve pumped out three videos

Inter­view­ing ReMIX attendees on Web­Jam
My Microsoft Pop­fly present­a­tion
The Geek Stories, ReMIX

1 Million Geek March

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

What is an Geek? Is Geek a pejor­at­ive term?
In the UK, being a train­spot­ter or anorak is def­in­itely pejor­at­ive for those out­side the craze.  Duncan Riley uses the mar­ket­ing term Prosumer (pro­fes­sional con­sumer).
If any­one comes up to me and calls me a Geek, I am proud. Hav­ing spent the last year break­ing off the shackles of […]

Alive at Pamplona

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Hey, Jeffa The Geek Stor­ies has the scoop, before The New Invent­ors: watch the inter­view with the Alive Tec CEO Bruce Satch­well — that blue device attached to the patient is made on the Gold Coast!

Email­ing Bruce last night, apart from com­ple­ment­ing me on my sharp eyes and good memory — he also broke the news that […]

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