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Making a “Lucky” Future Windows

Friday, March 21st, 2008

A post­ing on Microsoft Watch by Joe Wil­cox: “10 Ways Microsoft Can Make Win­dows 7 Lucky” provides intriguing 10 things Microsoft can do to make the next ver­sion of Win­dows.
I per­son­ally know very little of what is going on in the Win­dows world, so it’s tough to com­ment on whether Joe is on the mark, […]

Weekend Project: Windows Media Center

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Yes, I know that the cor­rect eng­lish spelling of Cen­ter is Centre.

Thanks to the gen­er­os­ity of Jeffa, I scored an old Mini-ATX case with power sup­ply. Yeah, being the junior on the team — I get all the hand-me-downs.
Some hun­dreds of dol­lars later from AUS­P­CMar­ket, and I have my first ever:

AMD based PC (AMD Athlan64 x2 6000+)
Gigabyte […]

iTunes, iPod Touch and Windows

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

It’s nearly a week since I upgraded my iPod from a gen­er­a­tion 3 to one of the cool, uber-geek iPod Touch devices. As a 99.5% Win­dows Vista user, I am impressed.
The iPod Touch works on our home wifi. In the morn­ing I check emails and other overnight hap­pen­ings from the com­fort of my bed in […]

Geek Project: Debian to Windows Home Server

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Do you have an old PC lying around in your house?
Do you have a swarm of laptops need­ing to be backed up?
Do you have a col­lec­tion of pho­tos, videos that need to be stored cent­rally?
Like me, it’s is time to install a server on your home net­work.
Last year, I trans­formed an old Dell 8200 PC into […]

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 […]

PDF via OpenXML, PowerShell…">Generating PDF via OpenXML, PowerShell…

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Col­league in crime, and fel­low Aus­sie (well, at least he’s nat­ur­al­ised now), Dave Glover has a post that crosses some old ter­rit­or­ies of mine.
Using Power­shell, .Net, OpenXML and some code that I barely under­stand because it’s not Python; he’s been able to gen­er­ate 60 to 70 doc­u­ments per second.
Link­ing it here as it inter­sects the […]

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 […]

Questions from Brisbug, 17th June 2007

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

First flight to Bris­bane, Sydney Air­port 17th June 2007. Up at 4.30am, at the air­port at 5.45am. Up so early, even the cats were sur­prised. Actu­ally one of the cats didn’t even bother to come out and visit as it was so early. Motor into Windor to present to 25–30 mem­bers of the Bris­bug User […]

Tool of choice: Windows LiveWriter

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I’ve been dog-fooding (that is, intern­ally test­ing) Win­dows Live­Writer — for cre­at­ing edit­ing and post­ing to my three Blogs. Install, and it just works.
Tim Heuer’s Flickr4Writer plu­gin is a must-have. A major time saver.
There are many pos­it­ive stor­ies about Live­Writer, this how­ever James Clarke’s takes the cake: Jet­Fuel: Sil­ver­light plu­gin for Live­Writer.  Some­thing else to play with!

DO WANT!">DO WANT!

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Microsoft Sur­face Com­put­ing. More than just Windows.

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