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Monday, June 30, 2008 9:53 PM

The very last town hall meeting from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer

I was really touched to listen to Bill Gates’ last Q&A session on Friday at the employee town hall meeting and sad to see them both with tears in their eyes.  it’s obvious that Bill and Steve have a lot of deep affection for each other as the
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Friday, June 27, 2008 4:52 PM

Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly

I first saw this video years ago but found it again on Travis’s blog .  Wise words and advice indeed.  The best tip is the title of this post. Oh, to be able to go back in time and follow all of the advice you know now.  I would have been
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:50 PM

Put your monitor to sleep

- and turn out the lights when you leave are just 2 of the 10 ways to try to curb global warming and improve your carbon footprint. I found these tips on Microsoft’s Environment site (which links to the MSN green site too).  It’s good that we’re
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:58 PM

Looking at Bill Gates’ photo album

I found this lovely slideshow on CNN of Bill Gates’ early photos and hearing him talk about them. It’s almost as if he’s sitting next to you on the sofa, flicking through some prints This image is one of his early business cards and it’s interesting to
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:10 AM

Office Communicator – on voice and video

I suppose there’s one small benefit to being without a car at the moment is that I get to chat to a lot of my colleagues on Communicator and video. Here’s my call with Jane this morning.  I have 1/2Mb broadband, Jane has about 1Mb. We were chatting
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Friday, June 20, 2008 11:40 AM

I’m not really a geek then?…

I’ve been playing Server Quest and I’m totally rubbish at it, my scores are far  too dismal to admit in print (some of these geeks obviously have too much time) but playing it has reminded me to tell you about the TechNet plus subscription offer
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:04 AM

Why, oh Why does this still happen?

I received an email yesterday that left me stunned. "National Electronics Week" is a show now on at Earl's Court. "We urge everyone to come along to the event, celebrate our world class capabilities and put the UK electronics industry back
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:57 AM

New VOIP as you are video

My good friend Bob who works over in the Unified Communications team at corp. sent me the link to this VOIP as you are video (link to the older video of PBX’s chatting to each other is here by the way…). It’s a 15 minute long video available here about
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:20 PM

The HTC Diamond Touch – my next phone?

I’ve been chatting to Angus today by IM- he’s been helping me with an Excel problem that someone contacted me about and the subject got around to phones.   Well he started to rave on about his latest phone that he’s bought – the HTC Diamond
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Monday, June 16, 2008 2:34 PM

Unified Communications TechNet event in Leeds/Bradford

We’re running some events in association with our partners who specialise in these areas – its a way for us to be able to get so some more places as venues are sometimes difficult to find in some towns.  So here’s a Unified communications event that
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Monday, June 16, 2008 12:17 PM

Live and Instant Messenger – on your blog

I know that sometimes I’m not too good at answering my emails immediately, and then the pile up and overwhelm me.  My phone number is on my blog but people only usually use it when they’re totally desperate and angry – or it’s Christmas day and they
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Friday, June 13, 2008 7:11 PM

Sad thoughts about cars

I didn’t blog yesterday as I had a sad day.  I crashed my Trans Am on the way out of the airport and spun off the wet road into a ditch damaging all of the front and the rear quarter – fortunately I’m not too badly hurt, but I think the car may be
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:46 PM

Announcements at TechEd IT Pro’s

Well it looks like I’ve missed a heck of announcements at TechEd yesterday morning during the Keynote.  I’ve been sitting in the bloggers lounge ( Justin has some photo’s of the area) and I’ve been catching up on the feeds I missed and I’ve noticed
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:49 PM

Feels like (IT Pro) home

Well I’m back again – back at TechEd IT Pro this time.  There are twice as many people here and what a buzz!  it’s certainly more noisy than it was last week – perhaps its just the general hubbub of all these people here.  This is the community
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Monday, June 09, 2008 11:22 PM

Women Gamers

I’m trying to sort out all the backlog of mails and things to do before I drive back up to Orlando tomorrow for TechEd IT pro’s and I noticed that Nicola has mailed me about the Women in Games conference in September as the Keynote speakers have been
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Friday, June 06, 2008 8:12 AM

The power of your words

Have you ever snapped at someone because you were busy? stressed? on a deadline? Have you ever teased someone, had a laugh, shared a joke? Been bitingly acerbic? Witty? funny? cutting? I know I have. But after seeing this video, I'll think much more carefully
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:53 PM

Offline: from blogging and work. Can I do it?

Well my WIT session is finished and I'm no longer required at TechEd Developers this week, so I'm going to spend a couple of days in Florida chilling out until it's time to come back to TechEd IT pro's. I'm going to the Kennedy Space Centre today as I've
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:41 PM

Women in Technology lunch: Connecting and Learning

Even though I've presented at several Women in Technology events around the world, I continue to be totally overawed by the calibre of the women in attendance. I stand on stage, and all I want to say is: "Wow". I look around the room at hundreds of women.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:53 PM

Here's your chance to put faces to names...

I'm hanging round at the blogger lounge today as I can't find any sessions that I know anything about in the Developer track at TechEd (apart from Silverlight) and I've noticed that there's a great bunch of speakers lined up who will be present to chat
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Monday, June 02, 2008 11:35 PM

A fistful of Developers

Now This is odd. I've just arrived at TechEd Orlando , driven to the hotel, walked across the road to the Convention Centre and registered, and I'm sitting on the floor in the Community lounge syncing my mail and it all feels really strange. The buzz
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