It’s bank holiday Monday and I’m just recovering from a very very busy week. Richard Tubb has already blogged about last week from his perspective here. Once I’d read that I initially wasn’t going to bother with a post of my own for fear of repeating what he said but it’s my blog and I’ll
Well Done Live Team
This is my first live writer post. I’ll be completely honest I didn’t really get the point the first time I saw live writer during it’s beta period. If you were writing a lot of posts offline for upload later i could maybe understand but otherwise i didn’t really get the benefits. I’m using wordpress.com
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AMITPRO Meeting on 11th March 2008
I’ve been so busy this week i forgot to add my usual post after an AMITPRO meeting We had two speakers this month Penny Coventry – Sharepoint MVP This was the first time we’d had any SharePoint content since i starting attending AMITPRO meetings so I was looking forward to learning something new. Especially since Penny
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Using Site Columns to lookup information across sites in Sharepoint 2007
I shared a couple of links with fellow AMITPRO member James Cash earlier this week but thought it would also be worth a blog post as i don’t post enough about SharePoint. A limitation of the previous version of Sharepoint (WSS 2.0) when using lookup fields was that it could only lookup information on that specific
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Is this a wind-up?
Have I stumbled across Microsoft’s next great advertising campaign or am i hopelessly wrong? I saw a post on SBSFAQ a couple of days ago where Wayne said his SBSGuru identity had been stolen and linked to another site I had a quick look at the site and since there were only three entries i
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Data Centers
Richard Tubb outed me over my data center “fetish” recently. I find anything to do with data centers fascinating. I just love reading about how they are put together and any pictures and videos i find are of huge interest I know it’s something I’ll probably never be involved with but i love the contrast
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Action Pack Changes
Not that long ago Microsoft made changes to the way we got desktop operating system in the action pack. They moved to “non-oem” media and there was an awful lot of complaints at the time Thankfully they have taken all the feedback on board and made some changes. Check out the official line here. We’ll
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Tools you take for granted
Just saw Philip Elder’s post about USB adapters for hard disks I’ve been using USB hard disk adapters for years. The original one i had was USB 1 and game with an additional fiddly bit so you could use it on laptop drives as well. As soon as the SATA version become available (the one
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta now available
From here… New features of note Activities: Select an address on a page is and you could click on a “get directions to here” menu option (look up type action) or you could “send” data elsewhere (blog this, show on my facebook, etv) – some pre-created activites are available here WebSlices: Not sure how to
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Paying for incoming mobile calls
I just saw two articles that caught my eye… Ars Technica: Europeans may be forced to pay for incoming cell calls The Register: Should Europeans pay to receive phone calls? I wasn’t entirely aware that US mobile phone users paid for incoming as well as outgoing calls and the report mentioned in the articles suggests