We have just had Long Bank holiday weekend in the U.K. so I have taken the opportunity to carry out some spring cleaning and have  been clearing out a load of boxes . I came across a long forgotten box of floppy disks. It took be another 20 minutes to locate my USB Floppy drive reader. After going...

Hi Everyone, I am really excited to tell you that due to our continued success Premier Field Engineering in the U.K. is looking to recruit some more Engineers to join our ranks. If you are interested in joining a dynamic and exciting team, and working for a great Company, and love working with a wide...

Apologies for not blogging recent weeks. I have been tremendously busy plus working out of the country My good friend Justin Zarb showed me this the other day. Microsoft Desktop Player This is a great utility that gives you a platform to search for technet content based around . You can either use the...

I have been doing a fair amount of technical writing and also recording of demos recently, of both technical content and also professional internal development initiatives. The product that I have found really useful in doing this really easy. 1. Editing my videos and recordings and taking my live meetings...

      On the 19th of June I was very proud to be part of a “Digigirlz” day held at Microsoft. So what did this day involve ? We invited 10 schools from around the local area of Reading and Bracknell of up to 20 girls per school to an Action Packed Day. The day was designed to inspire and...

  On the theme of going Virtual and saving all those expensive Travel Costs. Then MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainers) checkout this opportunity to get some excellent online technical and professional training. Being an MCT since 1996  …. :).  I know the value of keeping your skillset up...

  Hi , I think this is definitely worth a mention. I know that many of your are experiencing very restricted travel limitations due to the current Economic Climate. Well to help you maintain and grow your skills we are running a Virtual Technet Conference. Some of the highlights are as follows;...

Well I have finally gone bonkers and anyone who knows me personally knows what a determined tenacious person I am . On September 27th 2008 I am partaking in a Computer Aid International Event across Madagascar. So what is this amazing event. I am taking part in the computer aid Madagascar Cycle Challenge...

Well I was lucky enough to be at both Teched in Orlando last week and also at Teched I.T. Forum Last November. One of the things that really put a smile on my face in both places was the speaker Idol contest. Last November a friend of mine Ilse Van Criekinge won speaker idol contest @ Teched I.T. Forum...

Being a school Governor I am always interested in great offers for Software now Staff at colleges and Universities can take advantage of a Great Offer which was formerly only open to Students. If you are interested Read On ! Students of colleges and universities have been able to buy Office 2007 Ultimate...

I had a great evening the other night representing Microsoft at BCS IT Computer Awards Dinner 2007 http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.16272 . It was a great occasion and a great chance to dress up !. However Microsoft was up for a couple of awards most notably; GCS Women in I.T. Award and also...

A good friend and colleague Mark Empson has entered the Blog Community. He is to be found here http://blogs.technet.com/mempson/ . His main areas of technology will be Platforms and Active Directory. But I happen to know he is an guru on Windows 2008 so keep a close eye on some really excellent blog...

Well I am now getting excited. I am going to be working on the Ask the Experts Stand @ Teched IT Forum in Barcelona next week. I am really looking forward to this as I had an absolutely brilliant time out in Orlando this year at Teched. I will be intending to build upon my 2008 knowledge and catch loads...

As soon as friends or acquaintances find out about the job I do then it turns into a Doctors waiting room of people asking questions around the various ailments on their Computer. To be honest I don't really mind and usually advise them the best I can. Plus the offer of a bottle of wine to come and look...

Well back from holidays and back to work. I have been catching up on my mountains of Emails. Whilst catching up on some posts the on Tafiti which is swahili for "do research" website looks really exciting. It uses "silverlight" technology and takes a completely innonative approach to carrying out searches...

I was reading about this recently some online Picture editing software by Picnik. This has the following cool pictures The great thing about this is it can all happen online with functionality to hook into flickr facebook and picassa One-click photo fixing or in-depth tweaking Crop, rotate, and resize...

This article caught my attention. I often go running. I have done 5 1/2 Marathons to date. I also invariably wear my MP3 player. However this will make me think twice ! Jogger burnt by headphones after lightning strike http://news.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029666,49291583,00.htm Eek !

I seem to be on a run of recommending books, oh well must be that time of year. Anyway one fact you my not know about me is that I used to be in the Royal Navy working in Radio Telecommunications. Therefore I have a background in using Cipher and One time pads and Encryption Technologies. This has been...

Guys and Girls - A new book from Microsoft Press to add to your reading list. I am going to try some of the techniques to some-how make sense of my busy diary....although I am still booked out until December ! ISBN: 9780735623439 Author: Sally McGhee and John Wittry Pages: 368 Synopsis Get expert advice...

It was good fun reading this article by Steve Ranger talking about how so called time saving gadgets which are meant to save your time ....you end up wasting hours and hours "playing" with them. I can totally empathise with this. I recently spent an aimless Saturday afternoon checking out all the functionality...

Well today has been great. My inaugural Operations day for Premier Field Engineering "Virtual Server and Beyond " has come to a close. I can honestly say it went really really well. I must admit it was hard work putting it all together but I had a really great Colleague Sarah Lidington working with me...

Well back from Orlando Florida after having a brilliant and technically challenging time. I was manning the Technical Learning Center on the Server Core Stand, and met loads of great colleagues and other professionals. I also was working alongside Ben Pearce and Justin Zarb , and Wayne Richards.I also...

Well as the time draws nearer I am getting more and more excited. I am going out to Florida this Sunday with some colleagues two of them who you may know from their blogs, Justin Zarb and Ben Pearce to represent Microsoft Premier Field Engineering from the U.K. and to work on the Longhorn Demo Stands...

I came across this add-in the other day which pretty useful. This allows you do to do the following ; "Windows Live Local for Outlook adds maps, routes, traffic updates, driving directions, and travel time to your Microsoft Office Outlook meeting requests. See maps in road, aerial, bird’s eye view,*...

If you have read my blog over the last few weeks or months, you are probably aware that one of my passions is to encourage more girls to choose Computing as a Career. Well lucky me....Microsoft Also think this too !...I am involved in a initiative at work to encourage more women in technology as is my...