Wet String and Sellotape : Miscellaneous Humour

Offtopic - Humour and Irony - Laser ice levelling - nice!

Mike P — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Have to love the technology used to level the runway in Antarctica for the first regular link down there from Oz.....cannot help thinking about the irony of landing a plane on the ice in order to study the environment....lol

Good weekend all!

Fast plan to get into High End Enterprise Search...!

Mike P — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:38:26 GMT

Here are some more stories all around the FAST announcement yesterday - you have to love the manner in which the story is reported differently in the different media - Hats off to the IHT for using a picture of Bill Gates with Slash from Guns 'n' Roses to add just a touch of exotica to the story!

The Financial Times:

The Daily Telegraph:

The International Herald Tribune:

All positive news indeed!

Merry Christmas....yo ho ho greetings from all at Microsoft!

Mike P — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:47:33 GMT

Dear Friend & Business Partner,

I would like to thank you for all your hard work and passion in 2007 – the SharePoint business has seen tremendous growth in the last year at Microsoft and this can be attributed to you our loyal partners. From knowing many of you personally and having worked with all of you I know that our growth has transcended into profitable and sustainable business for you too.

We started the year off with a view to transforming the way our customers looked at Enterprise wide Search and I can successfully say that we have made some huge leaps in the ways that analysts, press and customers see the business we have been growing together. You will have seen these reports on my blog and also the great customers stories on the site we built at the end of May. Stay tuned for news on how you can get involved in the rewrite of the customer facing search site – so do please make sure we know about all of your Enterprise Search wins as they come in! After all don’t forget there is the Enterprise Search Ski Incentive to compete for – Year to date we have over 101 wins around Enterprise Search which is 140% of the target we set ourselves back in July – great healthy competition!

I hope you have a fantastic festive break and I look forward to helping your businesses to grow and prosper even further in 2008, and don’t forget if the Turkey and TV gets a little dull over the holidays – take the afternoon off from the relatives and go and install some more MOSS 2007!

Merry Christmas!

Mike Pallot

We have made a donation to the NSPCC as part of the
production of this e-card.

Top Stuff I have seen recently..

Mike P — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:16:00 GMT

Made me smile:

How to tell if your boss is nuts: saw this from the brilliant Execupundit blog: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/bing/0706/quiz.crazybosses.fortune/index.html

Think I might be lucky having read some of those weirdo options to tick!

Things that make me smile...World Communications Awards...:-)

Mike P — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:16:28 GMT

So there I was working away and an e-mail from the World Communications Awards dropped into my inbox - so I had a quick look and the irony was amazing!

Made me smile - happens to us all!

Human 2.0: Windows Compute Human Server...early product team discussions..

Mike P — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:45:00 GMT

So as you will have seen last week and will see again tomorrow we have been out and about with the Partner TV video camera taking shots from the product teams when we manage to catch them!

Here is a fascinating video clip of some early work we have planned - all around making Human 2.0: The example used is my boss Steve Clayton - huge thanks go to Ryan Waite for this amazing product insight:

Enjoy!

Overtime for mobile mail users?

Mike P — Mon, 28 May 2007 17:58:44 GMT

Was trawling around a few blogs and came across this interesting article on Over-Time Pay For Reading E-mail on Your Blackberry at Home now it does strike me as amusing for the following reasons:

Surely if this is legal advice from am esteemed law professor, then I should be charged for each 6 minute increment I check out the blog? Don't tell me the world is going soft and we are now getting benevolent lawyers - I will see parking attendants in central London hugging babies next!
A very interesting view that an employer providing the ability to work flexibly and remotely should then be charged for that benefit contribution by the very employee they are trying to help...?

Please tell me someone hasn't forgotten the best button on these devices:

Hmmm seems someone forgot to tell the plaintiff in the above case that a little two way flexibility was a good thing?

Enjoy!

CCS and MSFT Share price...!

Mike P — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:51:04 GMT

So whilst we run the first user group for CCS at Microsoft, look what happens to the MSFT share price!

Made me smile!

Great new look...just 'wash and go' for blogs!

Mike P — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:52:00 GMT

Huge huge thanks to my mate Matt for helping me make this blog look soooo much better! Really needed the 'pimp my blog' experience! If you fancy checking out Vista, Virtualisation and more then check out his blog Peering through Windows.

Enjoy!

Great ballmer video on Google and joining Microsoft

Mike P — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:28:39 GMT

Nice refreshing video here showing you a relaxed Steve and his views on Google as well as his joining process into Microsoft:

Ballmer: Google's growth strategy is 'insane'

Kind of cool and candid - hope you all have a great weekend!

Enjoy!

Progress: activity doesn't always equal better experience :-)

Mike P — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:48:18 GMT

Made me smile, feels like this sometimes in business :-)

For all those people who think that bosses are perfect - remember we are all learning...

Mike P — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:44:37 GMT

I was just reading a new blog that I have recently subscribed to called Execupundit.com - it's truly a great place to read some pragmatic cool advice and the following really got me thinking:

http://www.execupundit.com/2007/02/note-from-boss-to-employees-what-some.html

Sure we are all guilty of sometimes getting frustrated that our boss isn't perfect or doesn't see the full picture (whilst we hide their reading glasses through not communicating well enough :-))

Hmmmm note to self - must try harder, wishing you all a cool weekend! Am off to flog myself with some birch for previously committed offences to past and present bosses...lol

Enjoy!

Humour from Oz: Hmmm to Google or to LiveSearch...that is the question :-)

Mike P — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:41:00 GMT

One of my colleagues Nick over in Oz sent this post over to me which made me smile:

http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2007/02/21/google-versus-live-search.aspx

Nick fed us this vital bit of context as apparently the chap playing the tv presenter is actually the CEO of Channel 9, check it out:

In Australia everyone gets it more easily than others will for there is a sub context:
· The presenter is a guy called Eddie McGuire, and the show is on a channel called Channel 9 (one of the big 4)
· He also happens to be the CEO of Channel 9
· MSN in Australia is actually a joint venture between Channel 9 and Microsoft

Nice...expecting the Google response any minute :-)

Something slightly Freudian about this, Google advertisingMicrosoft Channel Builder programmes for HPC from this blog...

Mike P — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:30:35 GMT

Made me smile:

Google Blogs Alert for: IBM +HPC -postion -job

Channel Builder - Want to partner with HPC SIs in the UK ...
By Mike P
Seric an IBM partner from Paisley in Scotland are looking for HPC ISVs to help broaden their route to market....screenshot below of how Microsoft can help you to broaden your connections..just a small token :-) ...
TechNet Blogs - http://blogs.technet.com/default.aspx?GroupID=6

Thanks to Billy for forwarding! If you fancy setting up alerts from Live.com then have a look at the following for reference:

http://www.alerts.msn.com/Alerts/Default.aspx

Four types of great alerts, notably:

News Alerts and websites
Stock quotes, travel alerts etc etc
Single interface for managing them all

You can also choose to set up some simple rules so that you don’t get interrupted on your peak busy times etc etc

Enjoy!

Wet String and Sellotape : Miscellaneous Humour

Offtopic - Humour and Irony - Laser ice levelling - nice!

Fast plan to get into High End Enterprise Search...!

Merry Christmas....yo ho ho greetings from all at Microsoft!

Top Stuff I have seen recently..

Things that make me smile...World Communications Awards...:-)

Human 2.0: Windows Compute Human Server...early product team discussions..

Overtime for mobile mail users?

CCS and MSFT Share price...!

Great new look...just 'wash and go' for blogs!

Great ballmer video on Google and joining Microsoft

Progress: activity doesn't always equal better experience :-)

More on presentations..had me in tears..

For all those people who think that bosses are perfect - remember we are all learning...

Humour from Oz: Hmmm to Google or to LiveSearch...that is the question :-)

Something slightly Freudian about this, Google advertisingMicrosoft Channel Builder programmes for HPC from this blog...