Recently I got to go home to Australia to visit family. Qantas kindly bumped me up from Economy to Premium Economy – there’s a reason behind that one that I may share later. I have to say that I wasn’t looking forward to the trip home due to the rather...

So Ive been furiously reinstalling all my machines to Windows 7 RTM (one of the perks of being in a Windows feature team :) ). Today one of my machines had a nasty issue with Zune after I had my PC count reset (I have three machines I wanted to run...

I’m a Qantas Platinum flyer. I have been for nearly 4 years now I think and a Gold flier for several years before that – though I’m about to lose Platinum at the end of this year. After the move to Redmond I (thankfully) just don’t fly much anymore. Though...

When I ran the TechEd content for Australia and NZ, I never realized exactly what went into running an event of this size and magnitude. Its definitely not just about organizing a few speakers and some rooms… :) One part you may not see or even appreciate...