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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:49 PM

Surprise of the day. In praise of Roadchef.

A few days ago I posted in praise of McDonalds for their free WiFi . So I shouldn't have been surprised to stop at the motorway services and find Roadchef (at least at Norton Canes , off the M6 Toll) are doing the same. But in an otherwise predictable
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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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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:36 PM

Touch phones.

I was wrong. People seem to get on better with "touch" phones than I thought. I understand that different form factors suit different people. Just as some want a PDA and some want a phone, it seems that some want 12 keys, some want Qwerty and some want
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Friday, December 14, 2007 6:57 PM

USB Battery

**Warning** Neither I nor Microsoft will take any responsibility for what happens if you follow these instructions. I am not recommending this, just reporting my experience. For ages now I've had a bookmark for a hack to make a "USB Battery" . I wrote
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Friday, December 07, 2007 2:56 PM

The voice of Co-pilot 7

When I had my previous smartphone , I decided I'd try running Satellite Navigation software on it. ALK were the first to support the phone with Co-Pilot. Co-pilot 5 had it's foibles but basically it worked. It didn't work with Windows Mobile 6 which is
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:10 AM

It must be the truth #2. Astroturf and a rather less green Apple.

Silly me believing stuff I read on the Internet. First there was the The register's story about only 26,000 iphones being activated in the UK . Next came Electronics weekly's usual " Made by Monkeys " e-mail - I'm not sure how I ended up on the list for
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Saturday, December 01, 2007 12:23 AM

Office 2007 support for Windows mobile

One of our Redmond product managers was visiting today, and since he's old friend of mine from my days in consulting we took a chance to grab a Coffee. In putting the world to rights we took in the problem of one part of Microsoft not knowing what another
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Friday, November 30, 2007 2:46 PM

Exchange 2007 SP1 released

The news went live on the Exchange Web Page yesterday. Technet Magazine has " 16 new features in Exchange SP1 " the one which is of most interest to me is " Improvements to Unified Messaging "... that's all about integration with OCS and communicator.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:08 AM

It must be the truth ‘cos it’s there in the news

I have learnt better than to read everything I read on The register . But, deary, deary me. It seems only 26,000 iPhones have been activated in the UK. That was against a launch forecast of 100,000 for the first weekend. Indeed the register paints a picture
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Friday, June 08, 2007 2:07 PM

Mobile phone round-up

Steve has been had a play with the HTC "Touch" (lucky man). He asks "who on Earth would want an iPhone?!" That's simple, any one who buys for what the badge says about them. The kind of person who thinks a £300 (after contract) fashion accessory phone
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:36 PM

Manuscript Teaspoons and why Jason's getting a better voice experience than I am

I was going to write about my Experience of using Outlook Voice Access. And Voice command on my phone. I have phone set up so that when it sees my Bluetooth headset, it announces my calls. On a typical day I'll clear mail that came in overnight before
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:21 PM

PCs and Macs. And smartphones.

Having had a go at Google, I suppose it's time to look at Apple. Odd as it may sound Microsoft people don't dislike Apple. iPod's market penetration among Microsoft employees is probably higher than the population as a whole. Ask many of us what hardware
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Sunday, April 29, 2007 12:32 PM

Voice command

I'm tapping this in from the qwerty keypad on the E650 - which may turn out to be a masochistic thing to do.... My notes go into OneNote Mobile and are all bback to OneNote on my laptop. I can then hit "blog this" in OneNote: like Darren I love OneNote
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Friday, April 27, 2007 2:38 PM

Rights managed mail. Windows Mobile 6 pulls a new trick.

Digital rights management get a bad press. To most of us, as consumers of music or video it's something which limits what we do. We can tell right from wrong, we don't need stuff to limit us ... right ? Of course People who create "intellectual property"
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