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Farewell Technet!

Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 5:46 PM by James Senior
I'm moving home to a new blog at www.jamessenior.com ! This move also represents a rebrand for both myself and my content but more explained in my first post: Welcome from Microsoft's Social Web Guy! It has been an emotional three years on the TechNet Read More...
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New Biography

Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:06 PM by James Senior
Just drafted a new bio, interested to get your feedback! James Senior ( http://www.jamessenior.com ) James is based in Seattle as the Technical Evangelist for Live Services at Microsoft. Live Services provide both amazing online experiences for 500 million Read More...
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Delighting customers – a business imperative

Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:55 AM by James Senior
Having been in the USA for a little over a month, there can be a lot said for the customer service I’ve come to expect and how far people will go to make sure you – the customer – are delighted with your experience.  It’s a far cry from Europe where Read More...
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Driving Speeds

Posted Sunday, November 09, 2008 10:32 PM by James Senior
This made me chuckle especially having recently had to adjust my driving speed over here in the US.  Graph courtesy of GraphJam Read More...
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Settling in

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:07 PM by James Senior
It was my first full day yesterday in Building 18, Microsoft HQ and as well as unpacking my new laptop (another X61 Tablet – solid as a rock) I got settled in my office.  I won’t lie to you – it was a little bit on the bare side, with just a desk Read More...
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Here begins the period of craziness - and I can’t wait

Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:34 PM by James Senior
Well, well, well. It’s mid-October and my life is about to get insane.  Yesterday a consultant from the removal company came round to size up all my personal possessions ready for the big move to Seattle .  Tomorrow I head to the US Embassy Read More...
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Financial Services Craziness

Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:23 PM by James Senior
Seems like a great time to pick up a bargain in Financial Services.  Bank of America bought Merrill Lynch this week for $USD 50 billion and now there are talks of Lloyds TSB merging with HBOS – wow! Currently, the market values HBOS at £10 billion Read More...
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Microsoft hiring Ninjas

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:27 AM by James Senior
I was chatting with my pal Viral today and he pointed out an employee at Microsoft who had the title "Zune Ninja" stored in Active Directory.  What a cool title I thought - I wonder if I can change my title to become "Partner Technology Read More...
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I'm Back

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 3:30 AM by James Senior
I'm back! Well, nearly.  I couldn't resist a pre flight blog post (that's my plane above) to get me back in the swing of things when I touch down in the UK in about 10 hours.  My business trip/holiday has been great.  I've been staying Read More...
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Will I get down to 0?

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:04 PM by James Senior
  Today was admin day. This morning I started with around 200 emails that needed actioning. With under an hour to go until the weekend I've promised myself to clear my inbox - I've never seen my inbox this empty it feels great!  Read More...
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Editing the host file in Vista

Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007 2:11 PM by James Senior
Nothing like a good bit of Host file editing to while away the Tuesday afternoon, except I couldn't save the file in notepad. A quick Live Search later and I found this excellent post by Tim which walks you through the steps very nicely. Of course I forgot Read More...
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When error messages are good

Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:38 PM by James Senior
I was playing around with the new image library of the space shuttle when I broke Photosynth. I got a javascript popup telling me about my faux-pas and instead of just dismissing the error without reading it, for the first time in my life I read an error Read More...
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Bursting the Web 2.0 Bubble

Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 3:10 PM by James Senior
Jack writes on the Guardian technology blog about the fear in the industry about the impending bursting of the Web bubble. I've been thinking about this too and I have been worried too I have to say - going so far as to say that it was inevitable. After Read More...
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iPod connectivity on planes

Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:02 PM by James Senior
Genius! :-P "On Tuesday, Apple announced a partnership with carriers Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM and United. Beginning in mid-2007, the six airlines will offer iPod connectivity so that travelers can charge their iPods in transit. Additionally, Read More...
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Microsoft: Change the world or go home?

Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 10:48 AM by James Senior
It's interesting how different people are interpreting Hugh MacLeod's latest cartoon on Microsoft (pictured right). I personally believe we do a lot of things that change the world - it's just that most of the time people don't stop to realise. When you Read More...
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