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Monday, July 21, 2008 10:32 AM

How to annoy customers... e-commerce

In a few minutes I will be heading off to a Microsoft event in Seattle, and on the way I will be taking in some diving just the other side of the Canadian border. I already know that the hotel chain I'm staying with in Canada has complimentary Internet
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:29 PM

You know you have been doing too much PowerShell when you translate Macbeth ...

When you wake up with Powershell in your head for things which are not scripting tasks, as I did this morning, you being to thing I need a holiday, or perhaps "Get-Vacation -days 7" It stated with the thought that Waiting for Godot could be one line of
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Friday, June 27, 2008 1:40 PM

Off topic. The not so sweet FA.

For me to write a post about football (or Soccer if you prefer) - even on a Friday - is a pretty odd occurrence. I played Rugby instead and I'm not even an armchair fan of the game - would rather watch Motor Racing. I belong to that contingent who are
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:38 PM

Security, Security, Security.

The story last week that someone had left a secret folder of documents on a train - which were then given to the BBC brought back memories for me. Shortly after my wife and I had moved into our first house, she brought home a brown paper envelope she
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:39 PM

Off topic. The Cost of fuel, market forces and being green

Part of my salary package working at Microsoft UK is a company car, for which Microsoft buys the fuel. I can opt out of this scheme and take money instead (which is taxed like any other Salary payment) and the Tax office also works out the notional value
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:17 PM

Surprise of the day: In praise of McDonalds

I'm working from home today - not so much to be green but I had a routine appointment with my Doctor late in the morning and it just made more sense. Because it's half term I'm also minding my daughter so she ended up coming with me to the Doctor's and
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:53 PM

Top travel tip. Use the calendar. Properly

One of the things that we noticed on the roadshow was the *much* better system for getting us feedback (see here and here oh and here ) and - always looking for ways to improve our processes - a couple of us noted that there's a big document mailed out
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:59 PM

The joy of feedback [again]

I make a point of saying at the roadshows that we read all the comments and take note of them I wanted to share one particular comment but first off I want to give you a flavour of what people said they liked at one of last weeks events; here they are,
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 9:12 AM

Humphrey Lyttelton. 1921-2008.

On the Roadshow we have been in Cinemas so it seemed appropriate to have a round of IT professional's film club, an idea which we lifted from Radio 4's "I'm sorry I haven't a clue". I've never really taken to any other Radio station: I can remember
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Friday, April 04, 2008 3:36 PM

Who says health and safety people have no sense of humour ?

This from a colleague who says her team's blog is far to serious for this kind of Friday afternoon frivolity. I was walking through [Microsoft UK Building 5]  lobby and saw one of our maintenance guys putting up a display box with a sword in it.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:20 PM

Powershell in Birmingham

For those in the audience, the files needed for this demo are in my skydrive folder (link on the left of this blog in the "NEWS" box or use this link ).  Unfortunately having run through the demo for the last time I moved 3 files from my
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:20 AM

Expensive Hypervisors - a bad idea even if you can afford them

There's a saying in politics People will fall more easily for a big lie than for a small one*. I think someone at VMware has picked this up because they're trying a really big lie . VMWare doesn't need memory. Or to quote the post more precisely: VMware
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 5:52 PM

Looking after customers...

I'm back from my holiday, and as usual after a break trying to get back into the swing of things ... Various observations seem to link together. Connecting flights in Miami rather than Nassau saved me money but it wasn't worth it. Miami International
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:10 PM

Everything comes to those who wait ....

Something which by turns amuses and annoys me is they people seem to have become very fond of Windows XP only since the arrival of Windows Vista. Now... I'm an old hand at this, and I first heard it when I was working to upgrade my company's supplied
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:10 AM

An interesting journey with PowerShell GPS data and SVG. (Part 1)

Eileen phoned me from a traffic jam yesterday. "I've got a demon in the car" she said. A little late for a technical person Eileen has joined the world of Sat Nav owners and her characterization of hers put me in mind of the personal Dis-organizer device
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