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Friday, May 16, 2008 7:41 PM

The amazing Worldwide Telescope

Wow! I downloaded the Worldwide Telescope today and I'm totally transfixed. no wonder the press has been raving about it so much. The mission of the WWT is twofold: To aggregate scientific data from major telescopes, observatories and institutions and
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:06 PM

Right Brain or Left Brain illusion

My mother showed me something which has been driving me totally mad since yesterday. (Click on the icon for the web page with the animated version) It's an illusion which apparently tests whether you're using your right brain or your left brain. I've
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:46 PM

Trojans in MP3's

Oh heck. I need to phone my friend June after her PC became infested with worms and trojans the other week. McAfee have reported that trojans are hiding in MP3 files (there's a really great and informative blog post on the site by the way) Her reaction?
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:19 PM

Save your Word documents in DAISY format and create your own talking book

I was interested to see this article the other day about a new technology we've announced to help people who can't see too well and would prefer things to be read out using text to speech. This add in allows you to translate Open XML documents into DAISY
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Friday, May 09, 2008 9:49 PM

Coders hack Microsoft website? They need to learn DNS...

I was amused at Viral's take on the fact that we'd hacked our own website the other day with the Live to Code ethic that developers seem to embrace so much. More so, as I recently met Josh at our Technical conference this year. Josh had admired my Women
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:23 PM

Operations Manager cross platform Extensions demo at MMS

I've finally got round to having a look at this video about Operations Manager cross platform extensions. Wow. I wish i'd seen this before. Just look at how easy it is to manage and report the health of Oracle, MySQL, Solaris, Apache, Unix and Linux systems
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:53 AM

Sharepoint Webcasts for July 2008

Momentum Webcast: The Enterprise Search Platform in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time Justin Chandoo, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032374284&Culture=en-U
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:47 AM

Unified Communications Webcasts for July 2008

TechNet Webcast: Configuring DNS, Certificates, Ports, and Load Balancers for Communications Server 2007 (Level 300) Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time Byron Spurlock, Consultant - Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft Corporation
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:43 PM

Too many worms

I didn't get a chance to blog on Friday due to the words all IT professionals hate to hear from their friends: " My computer is running slowly, could you come over and take a look at it please ?" My friend June is a nurse who uses her computer for emails,
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:18 PM

Much more scary than doing live demos

I get nervous enough when I'm on stage, demoing beta products - especially the first time I demo stuff live (remember all the problems I had when I demoed Exchange unified messaging to a live audience when there was lots of background noise). But sometimes
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