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Technet Edge - For IT Pro's
I came across this relatively new site from the folks that brought us Channel 9/10/8 etc.... Looking it up and and then seeing a video from Security guru Steve Riley plus other posts on HPC,...
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twittering
I've given in to all the noise, hype and plain recommendations around Twitter and taken the plunge. I've looked at it before and it plain confuddled (northern term meaning 'to be very confused'!) me...
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Newsgator instead of Google Reader?
You may remember before Christmas that (almost) every other blog post was bashing Google Reader and their approach to securing your shared lists (or not). Well my problem with Reader was nothing to do...
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Work isn’t a place you go, it’s something you do...
This is from Seth Godin's blog which provided just a link to this excellent article on the modern workplace. Mavericks at Work: Where the Most Original Minds in Business Connect Amongst the 'rules' for...
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RNLI - the real 4th Emergency service?
I was reading in this mornings 'Times' newspaper of a ship that has sunk in the English Channel. The ship was 100m long and the channel being a fairly shallow sea way meant that for a time all that...
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UK Broadband - Who's best?
I've been experiencing some 'frustrations' with my current broadband provider since about July of last year. I'm on a corporately provided service which prior to July last yr was providing reasonable...
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Do you make $250,000 pa from blogging?
There's an interesting article on WSJ highlighting the services available by which bloggers can make money from their postings. The thing that struck me most wasn't the services available, nor the...
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Remote Access... to home
I've been playing with a number of ways of accessing my home network recently and I thought that I would cover them here. First came an installation of the (relatively) new Microsoft Home Server (HS)....
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Widget Maker Slide Closing a New Round of Funding? | Epicenter from Wired.com
Interesting article from Wired. Now this may be me....and whilst I've got a Facebook account, and now a Twitter account, and one of my sons uses MySpace a lot and the other YouTube a lot I can't help...
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Twitter - do you love it or loathe it?
I posted a short while back on the fact that I had lost my 'Twitter' cherry. Like all things new, and as far as I can tell, largely undocumented, it's been an 'interesting' immersion into this new and...
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Soap Box: Mobility - the business case?
My posting on Friday about the M5000 started thinking on that old chestnut - 'How do you write the Business case for mobility?'. I know I'm starting something here, and there are those far more...
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A Better path to Enterprise Architectures...
A colleague sent a link to this article on MSDN. It's talking about Enterprise Architecture and I think it's pretty good. Summary: Sessions offers guidelines for creating an effective enterprise...
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Windows Live Messenger - New version of MSN Messenger
This news is a bit consumer oriented I know but there's a new version of the MSN Messenger available as of today. The download location together with all the highlights are here. Amongst the useful new...
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Vista Hardware Planning
I've just replied to a colleague who had received a query from his customer looking for 'definitive' hardware guidance from Microsoft. Well, as it's the OEM that put your (and my!) machines together...
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This is a test of Live Writer...
And if this works....it's my first post in a Loooooong time.... Lets test a picture too....This is a Warrior 35 yacht called Black Pepper....Nice!
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So What happened to me?
Well, during the Microsoft happy season (you know - June to August when everyone changes jobs/roles/managers/org structures etc!) I decided to take on a new 'challenge'. So, since September I've been...
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(Post) holiday Reading - and Sharepoint growing up...
In the run up to Christmas and during the break I enjoyed catching up on blogs that I'd not read for ages, in fact all the blogs I subscribe to I hadn't read for ages! doh! One that I enjoy reading is...
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Free Office 2007 Training - for a limited time!
This looks like it's worth knowing about. 2007 Microsoft Office Learning Portal Includes links to E-Learning that is currently available for free. Enjoy!...
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Somewhat of a test
So it's happening again....I'm going to try and blog again. Lots of reasons Why but essentially I'm getting a 'buzz' from technology at the moment - there's a lot of Cool about at the moment IMHO and I...
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What software do you use most?
I was reading Paul Thurrot's 'About me' page on his blog at the weekend and noticed his link to 'What I Use' . Being sort of nosy I followed this and saw reference to something called Wakoopa . If...
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