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Wet String and Sellotape
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Link to the Oil and Gas Event Site for Fluent and 2 great Windows CCS Partners!
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Here’s a link to the Oil & Gas Fluent site with some of the other great partners who were there: http://www.fluent.com/worldwide/europe/events/iocc_06/index.htm The following are well worth checking out: & Enjoy!
IDC - The Hidden Costs of Information Work - get the article here and MS Commentary!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So in many of the Search posts I have written I refer to a whitepaper by IDC called 'The Hidden Costs of Information Work', we cannot give this to you for free unfortunately for IDC licensing reasons - but for those who do wish to review it, IDC make...
OpenSource and HPC..dangerous regarding IP...Have your say?
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Right so today saw a very interesting announcement in the Bangkok Post about OpenSource and Intellectual Property. Now I have lived in the Middle East, US and a few countries in Europe and found these views at a national level quite interesting especially...
Zune in #2 slot for portable digital player market...not bad after first 4 days of sales!
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over 8 years ago
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With all the popular bashing of the Zune going on at the moment you have to ask yourself a couple of things: 1. Have you test driven the product? 2. Have you seen the actual numbers for the first week of launch? Nice article from CNN on the...
Syndicated Live Search being adopted by websites - check out the Register using LiveSearch!
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Right so ‘The Register’ is not one of those websites that would go down in history as a wonderful advocate 100% of the time around Microsoft technology. However with the news that website owners can now syndicate Windows Live on their sites – they have...
Had me crying with laughter...race horses, flocks of chickens and harnessing huskies :-)
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Righty ho, so about a month ago a new product manager started in Microsoft UK called Dr. Michael Newberry – he’s a fantastic Australian and (being wary that there are more than a few Aussies reading this blog) I am looking forward hugely to the Ashes...
Level 300 Technical Training for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - get it now online!
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over 8 years ago
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Interested in Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007? - check out this level 300 technical training from TechEd in Boston last Summer: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032298160&EventCategory...
Personality Test - Quite Amusing results...here're mine!
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Right so I am often sceptical about these things but I have never seen them come out in a graphical way. Apparently I am a Benevolent Builder, hmmm! The immediate feedback from my brothers isn't really printable here :-) ...
Moments in your life when you go WOW!
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Right so before you start saying something like XYZ company had this X months ago - check out how very very very very cool this 3D visualisation is of your town or City on local live.com: http://local.live.com/Default.aspx?enc=0 So how good is it...
Want to Port your code to WCCS 2003 - Free labs coming up in Europe and US!!
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over 8 years ago
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Interested in porting code to run on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003? Want to get best practices, talk direct to the hpc experts from Redmond, and understand the full roadmap for Microsoft in the HPC space – then this training is for you! This...
Zune Desktop download yours now!
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over 8 years ago
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Get yours from here: Zune desktop theme (1.64mb)
Simple syndicated live.com Search option for public facing websites..!
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over 8 years ago
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Windows Live Search Box : We just launched Windows Live Search Box , designed for Web site owners and bloggers who want to quickly add customized search capability to their site. The search box enables visitors to search your site, the Web, or any other...
Like to track your Wind Levels - check out this cool Vistagadget...!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So a few of my close friends will know that I am quite keen on sailing – with the huge momentum behind Vista at the moment imagine how pleased I was to see this Vista Gadget come out specifically for sailors: You can change the location to any one...
MOM Pack available for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Great news we have just announced a MOM pack for WCCS 2003 – want to be among the first to get it, then go here now: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=78279 . So what does it do, here’s what it says in the site – yes a blatant cut...
Announcement: Hands on Enterprise Search Course coming up..!
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over 8 years ago
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Righty ho – (not yo, ho, ho quite yet..) check out this great Enterprise Search course coming up. The course consists of 8 hours of hands on how do you do it stuff! We will be running 5 of these courses from December and running 1 per month – have a good...
How does HPC affect your everyday lives....check out this Video showcasing Prof Simon Cox from Southampton University
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over 8 years ago
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I wish I had seen this when I kicked off my work around the channel in HPC – really cool information in plain English (almost..:-)) about how HPC affects our everyday lives. Say goodbye to geek and say hello to your Mum or boss understanding what you...
Free Search training for first 600 partners...!
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over 8 years ago
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Are you a member of the QuickStart for Microsoft Search? Are you a Microsoft Partner? If so, there is some new training up there which will help you to get the brand new Search specialisation under the IW Competency. Check it out today on: https://www...
Great video on HPC Fluid Dynamics used in Yacht Design...cool stuff from the French!
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over 8 years ago
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Now I absolutely love sailing and so it was very cool to see this video showing fluid dynamics working in the yacht design industry for the Americas Cup. Check out this video: http://www.rocketscientism.com/AREVA/ Enjoy!
Securing SharePoint - best practices and what is Forefront...something rude, a pest spray or something else??
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Forefront Security for SharePoint So this morning I pinged a mail to some of my colleagues over in the Security group – it was some random thing which they generally still humour me on....it remind me about an important aspect of IT that i haven’t...
Less High Performance Computing more High Performance Eating....
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One box down...more to come! Marvellous!
See if this works...BlogRMail with Tags and Photos...
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over 8 years ago
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Seriously cool new application – blogging is just sending e-mail now! Kudos to Steve for the find: http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/default.aspx Published with BlogMailr
Beyond Search: Unleashing the Value of Business Information ....the MS story succinctly..!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
So sometimes the hardest thing to do with a customer is to deliver the compelling business case as to why they should deploy a given solution. The options they have on the table are vast from different market players: Google, Endeca, FST so Microsoft...
Fantastic Oil & Gas video from Schlumberger Sema - Microsoft CCS inaction...nice and simple - nice and clear!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
I saw this the other day and had forgotten to post it until now – SchlumbergerSema have done some great work with CCS 2003 and delivered a great video talking about the benefits of CCS and their proposition in the Oil and Gas Industry: http://workshop...
More Live Ads in the press....check out page 18 of the Sunday Times!
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Another nice ad in the Sunday Times from the Live Team – cool stuff, this time a mix of the other 4 ads... Also – a nice article about the cool new functionality I blogged about a few weeks back around 3d mapping: http://www.timesonline.co...
Nuns on the run on the tinterweb...
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over 8 years ago
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Mike P_1
Leafing through my copy of the Sunday Times today this story made me smile about Nuns blogging: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2471917.html The parallels to what the nuns are doing in giving us a review of their habits (sorry couldn’t...
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