Technet – Manchester

Just to echo what Richard has already said, the first of a series of Technet events around the country lands in Manchester on Thursday (i previously mentioned it here) I’m attending the main event and the after hours event. I’m already impressed with what i’ve seen when using Vista Media Center functionality with my XBox

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SBSC? Why Bother?

I wasn’t going to post this originally but i’ve changed my mind!  I was talking to someone earlier in the week about the upcoming Midlands User Group meetings *-*-*-*-*-* PLUG *-*-*-*-*-*-*  If your in the Midlands area the next AMITPRO meeting is Tuesday 11th September For more details contact Vijay *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* I’m going to paraphrase

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Vlad does it again

So Vlad finally took the covers of his top secret project Theiving Weasel and what a great idea it is…and i sure didn’t see it coming! It’s a social network built specifically for IT Solution Providers (SBSC in the main though) to help them connect with each other and bring together lots of those distributed resources

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Building Your Small Business

If you haven’t seen this already check it out Susan posted about a message she had from Wayne Small It’s a link to a free e-book written by Dean Calvert, Andy Trish and Arlin Sorenson that gives lots of useful help and advice on building your business by selling SBS I’m just on my second

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Mixing Business With Pleasure

So it’s the morning (afternoon now!) after the night before of my first experience meeting people from the SBS Community My head is still a little fuzzy so it’s taking quite a while to write this 🙂 All in all i had a fantastic time and learnt more in one night about the value of the

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Look what came in the post!

Moo SBS Sticker Books Originally uploaded by Andy Parkes A little while back i came across a website called Moo.com Basically they are a London based company that take your pictures and turn them into mini-cards and notecards for handing out to friends and the like. I thought about getting some pictures of my little

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SBS burned into the brain

Nice post over on coding horror about how baby ducks become instantly attached to the first thing they see and how we do similar things with software “Baby Duck Syndrome is the tendency for computer users to “imprint” on the first system they learn, then judge other systems by their similarity to that first system.

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