Archive for February, 2007
« Previous EntriesBilly Thorpe: Australia’s Loudest Man goes Quiet
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007There will be many Australian sharpie Baby Boomers very quiet today. The hero of loud, Australian Rock and Roll, Billy Thorpe, died at 60 of a heart attack over night.
I wonder if in this election year, the pollies will pull a State Funeral. I hope so, as the impact his music had on that generation [...]
Inspiration from the Valley Vista Party
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Stephanie Quilao, from Silicon Valley, recently hosted a Vista party. I wasn't invited, sadly.
However: this guy was. He's 12 and he's programming using Visual Studio on Vista. We all want to know more!
Microsoft has the Express versions of Visual Studio available for free. That's right, no cost.
Then pop over to Coding4Fun to see what you could code. Every [...]
Ray Ozzie pops up
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007Prior to his appearance at MIX07, Ray Ozzie has talked at a Goldman Sachs conference.
Builder.com.au subtitles their report: "Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie doesn't necessarily think Google has all the answers, but he does credit the company for opening Microsoft's eyes."
There is going to be more than one 'google' cloud in the internet sky.
Possibly [...]
Andrew Gets Photoshop happy with Zune
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Meet me at Barcamp Sydney
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007This weekend's fun: BarCamp Sydney
In the UK they may translate this to Pubcamp - but that would be the completely wrong interpretation.
Liam is coming along too - so you will see us with the new video camera (named Flashheart) in hand getting geek stories from participants.
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Arhhhh! Tagged.com got me
Monday, February 26th, 2007Yeah, user error. My mistake. I should have watched all the check boxes on the site. Mea Culpa. Now all my gmail contacts get spam from me. Ugly.
So, whilst I am on the topic: social networking sites should only opt-in, not opt-out. Make it a little more difficult to show your friends you are an [...]
Rent Microsoft Office for AU$25/year (buy for AU$75)
Monday, February 26th, 2007edit title for correctness and shortness. 9:30pm
Yes, I work for Microsoft. Let's get that out of the way. The above link will find me, but please don't send me OEM offers.
Every day I get spam'd to buy OEM Microsoft and Adobe products. For prices ranging from US$10 to US$175, and I can get Office or Adobe [...]
Baldrick the Zune, Found!
Monday, February 26th, 2007Baldrick, my kidnapped Zune, has a report from his travels around Australia last week. He has been keeping some very important company.
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Matt Sherrod is new Crowded House Drummer
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Matt Sherrod, drummer for Beck, is joining the reformed Crowded House as the drummer.
Knowing the quality of Beck's percussion, this is going to lead into some interesting directions.
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Frances Allen wins Turing Award
Saturday, February 24th, 2007As posted by Anna Liu, Frances Allen won this year's Turing Award.
This whole industry has been created by two very famous women:
Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace: when Charles Babbage invented the hardware known as the Analytical Engine, Ada started programming -or- the software. A century out of time, these two very smart people collaborated not via [...]
