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Ferrari powered by Sharepoint
18 August 09 03:07 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I noticed that the Sharepoint case study for Ferrari today, posted at the end of July – link here . The case study includes a cool video hosted in a nice Silverlight player – looks really slick and well worth a look, especially if you’re one of the Tifosi Read More...
The Emperor’s New Clothes
28 July 09 11:35 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Firstly, apologies for the silence in recent weeks – it’s been a busy time and, well, y’know. Once you’re a week or two behind blog posting, you might as well be a month or two behind… Anyway. Lots has happened IT-wise in the last few months. Windows Read More...
Formula 1 back on the BBC – only 2 weeks to go…
15 March 09 07:09 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I haven’t been looking forward to an F1 season as much, for ages – since the Damon Hill years, probably. A number of things are helping to build anticipation: Rule Changes – this year, the FIA has torn up the rule book somewhat by resizing aero components Read More...
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Sign of the times: new car registrations
12 March 09 08:26 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I recall the 1st of August in years gone by, as the day that new car registrations would be released – in the UK, if you didn’t know, car registration numbers are centrally issued and every year, the prefix or suffix letter used to advance. For a young Read More...
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Happy 1,234,567,890 seconds since 1/1/1970
13 February 09 06:33 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Well there’s a thing. CNET reported that today officially marks the 1.2-odd billion seconds past the beginning of 1970, a standard that’s used in UNIX (and by the C programming language) as the basis for all time measurements. If you’re reading this before Read More...
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Look what I found in my loft: a 9-year old netbook
30 January 09 06:56 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I splashed out a week or two ago, and bought a Samsung NC10 netbook – a bargain at under £300, and it runs Windows 7 really well. Impressed with the size and utility of the thing, I recalled a forerunner of the netbook, so went rooting around in my “box Read More...
Top ten things for <insert company name> to do in 2009
13 January 09 11:38 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
It seems this time of year brings out the soothsayer in lots of IT journalists and analysts, if the volume of “ten things to do” articles is anything to go by. Mary-Jo Foley posted a couple of weeks ago on what she thought Microsoft might/should do this Read More...
How to wash your car properly
01 January 09 11:30 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
Another post from the "Random Stuff" category. Just over a year ago, I wrote on how to cook the perfect fillet steak , and amusingly, it's by far the most-read post on this blog - by a factor of more than two... So here's another one for the New Year, Read More...
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Border Lines in Word & Outlook
12 December 08 08:10 AM | Ewan | 2 Comments   
OK, I've been bad. Let my blog - which I used to update fairly frequently, though not the multi-posts-per-day, at-any-hour-of-the-day type thing that Steve Clayton does. Maybe that's why he wins awards and I don't :) - wither and dry up. I got a new job Read More...
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Imperialism, Metric-centricity and Live Search
17 April 08 12:51 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   
I'm a child of a mixed up time when it comes to measures and the likes. I am feet and inches tall, stones and pounds heavy, when it's cold outside, it's below zero degrees, but when it's hot, it's in the 80s. I learned small measurement in mms and cms, Read More...
Seadragon begets Silverlight "Deep Zoom"
12 March 08 09:37 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
There's a headline that might baffle... Seadragon Inc was a Seattle-based software company who had done a load of work on handling vast quantities of imagery and being able to manipulate the data in real-time, on-screen. Microsoft acquired Seadragon and Read More...
Bird's Eye view on Live maps - how cool is that?
06 January 08 11:02 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
The Windows Live search team did a pretty major update (a few months ago) to a number of elements of the search engine at live.com , but one of the nicest is the maps integration. Type in a postcode, a place or business name and click on Maps and you'll Read More...
I need some Flo Control - or Arnie Control, more like
02 January 08 08:31 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Regulars may remember the trouble my PC was having with Arnie the cat ... well I could use some more technology in and around the house to solve another little problem. Arnie & his sister have now got quite big - they're just over a year old, so fully-functional Read More...
Fun and games with identity (and keeping it safe)
26 November 07 03:54 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
I was going to title this post, " the Wizard of Id " but decided against it. It hasn't been a great week for the UK government's HMRC (Revenue & Customs) department, who admitted losing a couple of CDs which had an unencrypted export of the name, Read More...
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NASA's new server - with 4Tb of RAM and 2048 CPU cores
16 November 07 04:07 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Wow. George Ou from ZDNet wrote yesterday about NASA's new supercomputer, the most powerful single node computer in the world. It comprises 1024 dual-core Itanium2 CPUs with 4Tb of memory. The article doesn't say what OS the beast is running, but one Read More...
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Ewan Dalton:: Some hopefully sensible commentary around various technologies, starting with Exchange Server and other communications technologies but anything to do with software and electronics, basically... I've been at Microsoft for over 10 years so have a rich history of playing with stuff that's in development.

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