I couldn't help wondering what the carbon footprint was of the SnowMobile I hired for the day today (whilst on holiday). It was amazing fun but nonetheless I wonder what the impact was on the environment? Did it emit less than my commute to the office...

Whilst traveling it's great that all my other devices can charge from my laptop - is it matter amps?

Check out the post titled Bill Gates talks about Free Software, Students, and Technology for all the details including who is eligible and in which countries it is available. There is a full list of products here which at the time I wrote this post...

I've just bought the cheapest wireless router I could find to share my hotel broadband connection with my room-mates. Note: The Internet access is covered in the room rate and we are allowed to share it. Against my better judgment I ran the software...

I'm using a one year old Zune and a one year old HTC S620 Windows mobile phone - both of which I've upgraded FOR FREE to Zune2 and Windows Mobile 6 - the benefits are significant hence I don't need to replace the devices a year on. Note: I replaced...

I'm on holiday enjoying riding on lovely fresh powder this week. In a bar on the mountain I saw the following sign:

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I'm waiting for a flight to my snowboarding holiday and am enjoying the benefits of true mobile computing - I'm using my Samsung Q1 Ultra PC running Vista (Home Premium) together with my Vodafone "pebble" 3G adaptor (connected via USB) - both are items...

I'm sure the answer varies dramatically from device to device. Adam Carter has posted a video showing you how to find out on TechNet Edge

Click here to register for this free day's training on Microsoft Forefront security products. It's taking place in London on the 27th Feb. I'm surprised to say that there are still some places left. It's not a sales session in disquise - it's one of the...

James Senior has an interesting post that explains how you can become an early adoptor for the next exams and hence upgrade your qualification by studying for the new certifications and passing a single transistion exam. It's well worth reading more on...

I read this sometime ago on the Girly Geekdom blog in Sarah's piece about wearable technologies - it seems just perfect today for those of you who may be separated by geography for Valentines day. You can send a hug to your partner over the airwaves ...

Mark Russinovich has posted a great article which goes into detail upon how to file copy functionality in Windows Vista's Service Pack 1 is a great improvement. As Mark mentions there are improvements right across the operating system including performance...

Periodically I browse through my junk mail folder to make sure nothing I actually want to receive is hidden away in there - typically I find a handful of messages I wanted and hundreds of junk messages. I'm very happy to be able to let you know that I...

The Windows Server team blog has announced that Windows Server 2008 has been released to manufacture :-) You can download an evaluation copy of Windows Server 2008 and give it a whirl yourself. The countdown has begun for the release of Hyper-v...

James and I demonstrated how to implement iSCSI earlier in the year whilst touring around the UK - many of the audience were keen to find out more. iSCSI is a cool technology as it allows you to share an area of disk on a server to other machines across...

There a literally a handful two handfuls (not that that's really a word!) of places left for the Windows Mobile and System Centre Mobile Device Manager TechNet event that's taking place in London in the morning of 26th of February. All you have to do...

Visit the DDD Scotland site to find out all about this event - if it's even 1/2 as good as previous Reading based DDDs you're in for a treat if you are able to go. Make sure you register ASAP to make sure you get a place put the date in your diary and...

I am intrigued by the recent annoucement that you'll be able to incorporate Facebook applications in your own website simply by embedding some Java code according to Duncan Riley's post on TechCrunch titled Facebook Apps on Any Website: Clever Move ....

I've been contacted by someone who's being bullied online asking for advice. I was typing a reply when I mentioned it to Eileen who came up with a much simpler suggestion than I was going to give. Eileen adviced me that there's a report abuse facility...

The VistaSquad User Group are meeting again next week - it's a great place to discuss both development and infrastructure matters with your peers and it's free. If you'd like to attend then simply add a comment to their announcements blog. The event...

I'm sorry to have read (moments ago) that one of the most enthusiastic geeks I'm lucky enough to work with is in hospital following a freak accident. I have been somewhat heartened to read the second update on Dmitry's blog and look forward to hearing...

Craig Murphy was pretty quick of the blocks with his post. The launch site doesn't let you register yet and it doesn't have the session abstracts yet either but that cat's out of the bag - our UK customer launch event is taking place on the 19th March...

Amy has posted 50+ Killer Online Resources for Computer Science Students on the Virtual Hosting blog which she describes as follows: "Computer science students are lucky because the Internet is like a living textbook, full of information and advice for...

Like sooooo many people my thoughts keep going back to "what can I do to reduce my (negative) impact on the environment?" and "what can I do to help others be more environmentally friendly?" Clearly there are no appealing simple answers. Becomming...