WPF Twitter Clients

I have been using TweetDeck for a while and have nothing against AIR per se, however it is another piece of software that is relatively immature and could bloat my machine.  So on the basis that “like it or lump it I have WPF on my machine already as part of .NET” it would be …

Paris with Microsoft EMEA Communications Team

Interesting few days in Paris this week.  Microsoft’s EMEA Comms team have pulled together a group of specialists in the area of Software plus Services who can provide support to Microsoft Hosting partners in the transition to the wider S+S/SaaS/Cloud/etc agenda.  This is innovatively called the “Business Partner Support Group” 🙂 but mustn’t mock as …

Windows 7 generic RNDIS with Win Mobile HTC – Solution

I recently posted the problem at the bottom of this blog, while trying to get my HTC TYTN to work with Windows 7 either via USB or bluetooth.  Well good news I found a solution. From WinMob menu select Settings, then click the connections tab Now click USB to PC Make sure the “Enable advanced …

Off Topic – The Waterboys, Spirit

Doing some very interesting (not!) but paying work and listening to music.  Waterboys starts playing and we come round the a track called Spirit.  Such an uplifting sentiment that I felt the need to stop, listen again, write this and also shout it out to Twitter land.  Here are the lyrics and you can listen …

Windows 7 – 12 days in, experiences so far

Basically its been a pleasant experience so far. I haven’t experienced any of the “installer bug” problems reported on M-J F’s site and anything that has occurred has been pretty minor (touch wood, make required sacrifices to the beta gods, fingers crossed etc.)  And so with things going so well my feedback is limited, but …

A pair of Great Tits (NSFW!!!)

Now don’t go getting all cross, you were the one that clicked on the link 🙂 Another in my series of experiments about what catches the average tweeters eye…  If you are here then it was you that followed the link 🙂  but now you are here why not check out the rest of the …

And that way Beta Madness Lays……

Since installing Win7 Beta on the test machine at home on the 7th I have been impressed.  So far the only real issues have been associated with IE8 “stability and compatibility”, which was quickly addressed by downloading Firefox.  In fact it has been such a “safe” experience that I am considering installing Win7 beta on …

Problem getting Win 7 product key from MSDN

As outlined in previous post on experiences installing Win 7 earlier today I had a problem getting a product key from MSDN – kept getting error message. My plan was to wait until it was fixed, but by accident/cock up I hit the enter key and the install continued. Well pretty pleased I didn’t wait …

Win7 – initial experiences

Patience is a virtue they say and in my own way I have been patient.  I’ve seen the bittorrent leaks and resisted, I’ve had a machine that has needed a rebuild for months but resisted.  But today I woke up to the official beta download and patience went out the window.  So along with many, …

More people have read this Shirt than my Blog

An experiment to see what attracts people to blogs – and maybe while you are here you may actually find some of the articles interesting 🙂