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Neil Finn Lyric Server goes Mashup

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

The Microsoft PopFly alpha can make you lose three days. In a good way. I haven't had so much fun since, well, Photoshop maybe.
I've created a public PopFly "Block" called NeilFinnLyrics (now shared) this is bare, bare bones. It simply uses the new REST interface to the Random Neil Finn Lyric Server.  The Lyric [...]

Explaining to my Mum what I actually do

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Having grown up on a farm, I saw what my Dad did every day. I saw it grow; and helped around. I learnt how to read clouds and the sky to determine the weather, and what the time was without a watch. From memory, at about 12 years old pretty much anything that could be [...]

Small Geek in the Wheel

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

More cluely people join the Australian DPE team. It's way cool having smart friends on the team to balance my ignorance on all Microsoft matters important.
A Special shout out to the ever helpful Jeffa and Captain Coates.

Frank seems to be relieving his end-of-year frustrations by changing my title in the HR system. It [...]

3 Days to Silverlight

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Readify have a 3 day training course to learn Silverlight.
On my TBD list for 2007. Since mossyblog refuses to show me his l33t sk1llz.

Notice the keyboard and t-shirt. In the above photo he's in Orcas doing some piece of Silverlight. On the screen in the background are a whole bunch of figures that is enthralling [...]

Asserting Diplomatic Immunity in Subverting the Microsoft Hierarchy

Monday, June 18th, 2007

After a series of presentations I gave to Principals of Victorian schools, I had described my role at Microsoft as a digital diplomat. This perfectly describes a part of my job as a bridge between the digital immigrants and digital natives. (Prensky, Marc: 2001)

Now Frank Arrigo, my manager, has entered that into the internal Microsoft [...]

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 [...]

Holiday, not too far away

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Ahh, Japan. How I look forward to thee.

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I CAN HAS LOLCODE.COM T-SHIRT

Friday, June 15th, 2007

As the LOLCATS meme goes TechEd; here one of my submissions:

Now, in the interest of learning new programming languages: I purchased a LOLCODE.com T-shirt. What was interesting was the non-geeks looking at me strangely. People already think I am "out there", and the LOLCODE t-shirt just proves it.

Before you start dis'in my new language of [...]

SQLExpress

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

SQLExpress hmm, need to research more. Need to get off MySQL.

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AU ReMIX SOLD OUT!

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

ReMIX 07 is SOLD OUT.
Arrrgh.  I hope I got a room, otherwise I'm sleeping outside in cooooold, coooold Melbourne.

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