This is a personal rant. If you want to read on, please do so, if not, thanks for getting this far. Oh I love how people wave flags "for the greater good" when they really mean "for my own good". Today I saw something that just made me have to comment. Unless you have been in a bunker...
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on Sun, Feb 3 2008
Filed under: Business, Personal, Microsoft, Internet and Web, rant, If you only read one post today
I've been ranting a bit recently about wanting everything for nothing and then I saw Susan's article - http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/11/29/so-how-much-money-has-been-wasted.aspx - and it just goes further to say how much time is spent not moving forward, but going backwards. I...
It's funny working in an industry where if you are not going at 50,000 miles an hour you are considered to be standing still. One area where Microsoft is speeding along is photography. In this post I will explore the announcements, the demos, short and long term products and then the future that...
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on Fri, Nov 23 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Live, Fun, Personal, beta, Microsoft, Windows Client, Vista, Research, Demo, Open Standards, If you only read one post today
Steve describes himself as my loyal blogging servant... how the tides have changed from when he was my boss. Ahhh!! Not my servant, but yours... post blogging edits are a wonderful thing. Well Steve was my boss, not bad really :-) Anyway, he is now a good part of the Software+Services drive in Microsoft...
I'm against anyone who gets too xenophobic or protective of "jobs in my country". Jobs should be filled according to the needs of a company and all aspects that lead to the definition of "needs" should be taken into account. While I am staunchly loyal to the UK, if a job is better...
This is a rant and it is my opinion and does not reflect that of Microsoft or others - It is my Opinion! From 1992 to 1995 I had to write document converters - I had to pick apart binary file formats and translate them to another format. It was hard work and I JUST WISHED people would create a largely...
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on Thu, Sep 6 2007
Filed under: Office System, Developer, Community, Personal, Microsoft, Office 2007, rant, Open XML, Open Standards, If you only read one post today
With a tear in my eye the time has come for me to move my stick hut somewhere new. I have loved working in and with the small business community and with a set of awesome partners who can complain and nag, but normally with good cause and that are more willing to say thank-you and "good job"...
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on Fri, Jul 6 2007
Filed under: SBS 2003, Office System, Support and Tools, Community, Personal, SBSC, Microsoft, Office 2007, SBS 2003 R2, Small business, Partner, If you only read one post today, SBS Cougar