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Microsoft Announces new language: Db.NET

April 1, 2012 Humour

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In a perhaps unsurprising move, Microsoft has chosen this Sunday to announce their latest .NET language: Db.NET The release comes a day prior to the lang.next conference commencing in Seattle on Monday. Dubbed as vNext.NET the language features a number of key enhancements including the new Ostinato Framework, Morendo Garbage Collection systems and Cantando Installer. [...]

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WordPad Zero Day exploit

December 17, 2008 General

OMG, panic! But don’t be distracted by that other zero day exploit (you know, the Internet Explorer one), here’s where your security gaze should be firmly focused: WordPad. It turns out that WordPad has a significant exploit. And by significant, I mean it affects at least one person. I strongly recommend WordPad users (both of [...]

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Bogus tips for IT Managers

December 12, 2008 Humour

Any blog that has 4 Ps in its title is worth reading in my book. That aside, I’ve been reading Phil Factor’s Phrenetic Phoughts (oh hang on, that’s only 3 Ps – you tricked me with that clever similar sounding thing Phil) for years now. It’s always a classic read. And for managers like me, [...]

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Do more with this Ad

November 22, 2008 Humour

I spotted this gem on MSDN tonight (yeah, slow night…). Above the annoying flashing ad was a link titled ‘Do more with this Ad’. You got me. I clicked it. Amazing, they’re after my feedback. They care about me. My opinion counts. I submitted my response, refreshed the page and waited expectantly for the refreshing [...]

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TIP: How to be an annoying presenter #1 – the ZoomIt virus

August 30, 2008 Humour

I consider myself an average presenter. Not terrible, but not great. I’m working on being a great presenter. To this end, as well as working on what I should be doing, I’ve also been spending time analysing what should be avoided. Over the coming weeks and months I’ll be sharing a few tips on what [...]

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Advice for would-be CIOs

August 7, 2008 Humour

I don’t know if you read CIO magazine. I do because I plan on being a CIO in the next 5 years. Of course, I realise that reading a magazine won’t make you into a CIO, but it sure does highlight the skills you need to work on. Take last month’s edition for example. In [...]

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Microsoft Fiji naming fiasco – not the first time

June 30, 2008 Humour

Having your code name objected to is nothing new. This (possibly hoax) story about Fiji (the island nation) objecting to Microsoft’s use of ‘Fiji’ as a code name is nothing new. Most recently this happened when the Visual FoxPro team were releasing the Sedna Add-ons and received numerous complaints from the inhabitants of Neptune (via [...]

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Gobbledygook – graphed

February 3, 2008 Humour

What a classic – David Meerman Scott analyses the use of meaning phrases by news services. Topping the list: 'next generation', 'robust' and 'world class'. See also his Gobbledygook Manifesto. Great stuff – perfect for your next game of wank bingo. Technorati Tags: Gobbledygook

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Political correctness link

December 19, 2007 Humour

Yep, I agree with Wayne that this is getting silly. Sesame Street being wound back due to all that harmful stuff they did in the 70s, 80s and 90s. No wonder this world is in such a mess But fear not, the pendulum swings both ways and in a decade or so we'll see the [...]

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Here comes another bubble v1.1

December 19, 2007 Humour

Not wanting to be the only person on the planet who hasn't linked to this, here's my late link. After some silly copyright hoo-haa last week, a revised version is up on YouTube. This time there's some bonus material – the credits (which will be read by a total of 4 people, maybe less . [...]

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Stephen King loves Britney Spears

November 26, 2007 Humour

Well, not really. This wonderful interview with Stephen by Time magazine is a nice rebuke to what the media tells us is important news. IF the media is right about what is important to the public, then we should be making Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan the Time Persons of the Year. Or so claims [...]

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Windows GMail

November 20, 2007 Humour

From Google Blogoscoped comes this gem on what GMail would look like if Microsoft had designed it. It's too close to reality to be funny… Technorati Tags: Microsoft GMail, Blogoscoped

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Project Failure – How To Tip

November 19, 2007 Humour

Jason Yip eloquently captures the easiest way to derail a project. Technorati Tags: Jason Yip, Fail to prioritise

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CLASSIC: Mark’s Infinite Solutions

November 9, 2007 Humour

This is seriously one of the funniest sites I have witnessed – I was in pain laughing at some of his amazing solutions. The attention to detail is priceless. The best IMO is his tip to increase WiFi strength, followed by his now famous How to Sign Up for GoogleTV Beta, but all of them [...]

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Email scams still pull in the suckers

November 5, 2007 Humour

Anyone reading today's news article on an email scam involving the late Kerry Packer would probably smile at the humour of it all. After all, who falls for these grammatically incorrect, spelling mistake-ridden spamming irritations. Well, scroll down to the bottom of the article – apparently plenty of well informed Aussies do. Disturbingly, $500K a [...]

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Online demo on how to use the mouse

October 22, 2007 Humour

Aleks at work sent this one around today – a demo on how to use the mouse. All you need to do is work out how to navigate through the web site and make it to the link and activate the link – all without using your mouse of course – in order to see [...]

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