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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...
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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)...
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Systems of belief ... and Ray Ozzie.
My colleague Orlando has a thankless task. We have our big training event this week and Orlando has the job of pulling together the "summit" for evangelists the weekend before the event. Past summits...
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Cars, jobs, and retailing. Why belief matters
A few days ago now, I ordered the replacement for my company car. If you don't live in the UK, it's probably news to you that our tax system means that many people get a car and fuel as part of their...
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Mail stress.
I started typing this blog post at 07:21. Outlook has already received the first 50 items of the day. Most of which were from night-owls in the US, a few from Asia/Pacific, and only a couple from...
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IE 8 testing - part 2
One of the things about a new browser is that various web sites expect particular ID strings to identify browsers they know and get awkward if they don't recognize the browser ID. So one of the nice...
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It's not about computation, it's connection and visualization
Yesterday Microsoft UK had its company conference in Brighton, and I always have mixed feelings about these affairs. We transported 1000 people 100 miles and told and with no sense of irony whatsoever...
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My enduring love for OCS .. and a Nice windows 7 feature
My job as an evangelist focuses on Windows platform (client and Server OS), including management (i.e. PowerShell) and Virtualization. But there are other Microsoft products which from my day to day...
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A uniquely good day to be at Microsoft
I don’t think you can have missed that today was the day Windows 7 became generally available. I’ve been trying to come up with some unique angle on this for a blog post and not getting anywhere. Two...
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Safer Internet day
I don’t often paste things from senior Microsoft folks into my blog, but I’d like to quote some things from our managing director here in the UK, Gordon FrazerFebruary 9th marks Safer Internet Day, a...
View ArticleVirtualization announcements today.
In another window I am listening to the desktop Virtualization hour which I blogged about yesterday. A couple of hours ahead of the broadcast we posted the press release on Press pass which contained...
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The 50th birthday that would have been
If you believe in the parallel universes then there are ones where Ayrton Senna is celebrating his 50th birthday today, having won 6, 7 or 8 world championships. In this one, the 50th anniversary of...
View ArticleHow to make and share Panoramas more easily – Microsoft ICE + Photosynth
I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I was working on a post about scanned images – in fact it’s the same set of scanned images I was using in this earlier post. In that post I talked about putting...
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GPS, and other kinds of Picture tagging with PowerShell
Well… I have been off for a bit and you can have a read of the previous post for some background on that. During that time I’ve done a lot of walking, taking photos as I go. Having raved about my HTC...
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Exploring the IMAGE PowerShell Module
In part one of this series I showed the finished version of photo-tagging script I’ve been using. I based my work (which is available for download) on James Brundage’s PSImageTools module for...
View ArticleWorking with the image module for PowerShell; part 3, GPS and other data
In Part one I showed how my downloadable PowerShell module can tag photos using related data – like GPS position – which was logged as they were being taken, and in part two I showed how I’d extended...
View ArticleAn unexpected call from a help desk? Hang up.
My phone rang: it was my dad. Father/son combinations don’t ring to chat like mother/daughter ones do, and Dad had been having computer problems. Specifically, Excel had been crashing but managing to...
View ArticleThinking about the cloud (part 1).
I was telling someone recently that before I joined Microsoft I spent the late 1990s running a small training company. The number of employees varied, averaging out at a dozen or so. I delivered...
View ArticleThinking about the cloud – part 2, Office 365
In my previous post I was talking in general terms about why BPOS was a sound idea. The recent announcement of Ray Ozzie’s retirement set people quoting his mantra “Three screens and a cloud” – the...
View ArticleSo long, farewell Auf Wiedersehen, good bye
Today is my last day at Microsoft after 10 years, it’s sad to be going, but as someone said once “Regrets. I’ve had a few, but then again too few to mention.” I’ve met some great people while I’ve...
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