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The title of this post in ComputerWeekly got me thinking. Men are from Mars, Women are better. Better at using the right side of their brains actually. As I blogged before about that damned dancer rotating different ways depending on how...
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Aargh! I’ve just seen the viral video advertising Windows 7 and the PDC this year. I’m full of cringe. We do seem to be getting a bit of a name for videos that make you talk… cringe… react… etc. But I suppose it’s better to be talked...
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Ian sent me this as he found it on Jeff’s blog who found it on the unlocked workstation web site It does get the point across about locking your workstations and as Jeff says: Next time you come across an unlocked workstation, just open a browser on it...
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So Nokia have signed a deal to use mobile phones as oyster cards . For those of you who don’t live in London, Oyster cards are cards which are pre-loaded with money and can be used on the london transportation system so you don’t need to buy your...
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When you get to know people you often find that a lot of us suffer from low self esteem or lack of confidence. We often doubt our own abilities and this is reflected in our work. But to the person looking in from the outside – we appear...
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The title caught my eye – and the content made me smile. Thank you Judith for this post that is certainly worth passing on to a wider audience. and so true too… Share this post: Read More...
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Sometimes I get a bit overwhelmed about all of the different social networking tools out there – there are so many with new sites for me to subscribe to all the time. I feel such a luddite from time to time. But I’m not alone, apparently. According...
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BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Justice evades Hamilton This came in on my phone while, ironically , I was talking to someone from AMD who wanted to get involved with some stuff we’re doing: as it turned out it was a bad fit anyway. Beforehand...
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I saw this brilliant article over on the dumb little man blog about eliminating waste – that’s time wasting stuff by the way and had to share it. Number 10 really strikes a chord: Say NO! The most lasting way to eliminate waste is to learn to say no....
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Today is a big day for Microsoft. Today we launch our Life without Walls campaign to reconnect with consumers and remind them and us why Windows is so important in our everyday lives. It’s about connection. Connecting...
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i was forwarded this mail after Steve helped Wagner to get his TechNet subscription. I’m copying this in full as it’s so rare we get thanked like this and i wanted everyone to know that when we get mails like this, they really make our day...
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Wang Li had a problem with Outlook: When I compose a email in Outlook 2003, the default font size is very small. I have to change it before writting the message. It sometime will some how change itself back to the default size while writting the message...
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Jeff loves the new Windows ads – but then you’d expect him to – as he’s a Microsoftee, but actually there’s been a lot of comments internally from techies who actually hate the adverts. I’ve been saying how much I like them – not because I’m internal...
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In past posts I've talked about a mythical Microsoft product named "Basingstoke". Microsoft's legal folks recommend that if you have to come up with a codename for something Geographical is good - they're fairly safe from a trademark...
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I like it. but then again, I liked the first video . Just shows them as real people with real lives… Enjoy – there’ll be more… Technorati Tags: Microsoft video , gates and seinfeld Share this post: Read More...
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Went downstairs the other day for lunch and this was sitting in the foyer. If you want the chance to race in one of these babies then enter the XBOX 360 Bathurst Challenge . I wonder if they'll give us a chance to take this for a spin around the carpark...
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Everyone as been going on about PptPlex since they saw it at the company conference last week and I’ve really been looking forward to playing with it but today is the first chance I’ve actually been able to sit down, install it and have a play with it...
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I’m at the 5th Women in Games conference here at the University of Warwick in the UK and I’m floored by the talent all around me. All of the amazing female games developers who are here. Where are all the recruiters? This place would...
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Twitter and the web, and the blogosphere is full of doom merchants with prophecies about the end of the world when they switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and send particles running around in both directions to try and recreate what happened in...
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I downloaded Autocollage 2008 from Microsoft Research in the UK and in under a minute had a collage. Here’s one of my efforts – really simple. You can download the trial version – or purchase immediately. It selects the photos from the directory...
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I’m actually looking forward to my flight back to the UK. But you know I’m terrified of flying. Well there’s a codicil to this. Except on an A380. What an amazing plane. There’s loads and loads of room – even in economy. The air bridges...
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Georgina has been busy working on our Calendar of events for the next few months and has published the list. Click on the links for more information and to register: 13 August 2008, London: Microsoft Virtualisation and Management Technologies 21...
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I've just seen this video of our new commercial showing Bill Gates in a shoe shop. Look out for more in the coming months... I just love the wiggle... Share this post: Read More...
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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 we told them about what the company was doing about...
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One of the most amazing and geeky things I’ve seen at tech.ed Australia is the RFID tags and avatars. As you walk into a room for a session, the count goes up, we know how many people are in the room – we can see their avatars – and we can see instantly...
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