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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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Woah there cowboy, you've got information overload!

Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 10:14 AM by James Senior
Ok I have waaaaay too much information coming at me in every direction. I need to cut back on my information addiction... I went to "Informatics Anonymous" last week (saw my boss and Matt there) and got the following things of my chest: I'm subscribed Read More...
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Live Q&A: Do you think Vista will be a success?

Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 2:52 PM by James Senior
Check out this cool new Windows Live site called Live Q&A . It's a community driven site where you can ask any question and get it answered by a whole host of different people. I did a quick search for Vista and came across this question: Do you think Read More...
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Vista's Blue Screen of Death

Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 11:36 AM by James Senior
:-) Courtesy of Long Zheng . Read More...
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What has BMW got to do with Vista Build numbers?

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 8:27 AM by James Senior
I just found an excellent, excellent, excellent post by Long Zheng which explains the complicated beast which is Windows Vista version branching . He listened to a pod-cast by Sven Hallauer, Director of Release Management for Windows Vista and interpreted Read More...
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Shopping for cars, much like buying Windows in the future...

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:35 PM by James Senior
Those thought leaders over at Gartner have sited Virtualisation as the end of what we know as Windows. So, in the future we should expect a more modular approach where you can build your own Windows according to your needs. It's comparable to choosing Read More...
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How many Microsoft employees does it take to fix a lightbulb?

Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:16 AM by James Senior
Feel free to insert your own punchline in the comment section :-) In this post I wanted to highlight how many people at Microsoft are all pulling together to make Vista the best possible product for our customers and partners. At last count there were Read More...
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Snakes on a Plane - but no internet!!!???

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 7:47 AM by James Senior
I read this this today... Can't believe they have made the decision to not offer internet on planes. Tim Farrar who is president of a satellite comms company gave this enlightened quote: "I don't see a future for global inflight broadband," Am I the only Read More...
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