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Windows 7 Shutdown Options

12 May 2009 on General, Windows

A couple of years back when Windows Vista came out I blogged about the several Windows Vista Shutdown options that were available back then after reading an article on Joel Spolsky’s blog. It’s really great to see that a suggestion I had back then on a possible solution to this problem has actually been incorporated in Windows 7! I may not have been the only person who though of this but hey I did think about it and now it exists as a feature! Here’s a snippet from what I wrote back in January 2007 *“So Microsoft…

Terrible Broadband Service & Customer Support from Telstra: Part 1

14 Apr 2009 on Broadband, General

I’ve thought about not posting this a few times but my patience is now fully exhausted thanks to the quality – or lack of it – of service from Telstra here. Just over 3 weeks ago I shifted to another house that’s about 2 or 3 blocks down from my previous address. Before moving we made arrangements for the Phone number and internet connection (which was ADSL 2+) to be transferred to the new address. Now this is where it all started (and continues to) go wrong. After moving to the new address and having the phone number connected I…

Goodbye Ferrit!

17 Jan 2009 on General

Wow. It’s been over 6 months since my last blog post! I’m sure this will change in 2009 and here goes the first post this year, and I’m sure many more will come. I received the email below on Tuesday and for some reason it does not surprise me! What’s seems a bit strange is that the news did not seem to be picked up by anyone. I havent seen any blog posts on the topic or even articles on Stuff or NZ Herald or anything and I probably wouldn’t have known if I hadn’…

To Get Certified Or Not To Get Certified?

02 Jun 2008 on .NET, Certification, General

Thoughts on my mind as I get ready for upgrading my MCAD .NET to MCPD Web… Getting certified was something that I got interested in doing not long after finishing my degree at university back in 2005. Given that I was involved with Microsoft stuff and .NET at the time my choice of certification was to be Microsoft Certified and more specifically Certified in .NET so in 2006 I started working towards the Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) .NET certification and had that completed, this of course was in .NET 1.1. I personally find a lot of value in…

Changes at the Christchurch .NET User Group

23 May 2008 on General, NZ.NET

Next month I’m going to be re locating to Melbourne and as a result I have handed over the .NET User Group leadership today as announced by Darryl. It has been a great couple of years since taking over the user group from Peter Jones. I really enjoyed running the group during that time and regret to be handing it over but I kind of had to 🙂 The new user group leader is Christopher Fairbairn whom you might have seen presenting at the 2008 Summer Road Trip that was held earlier this year. So from now on Chris will…

Thoughts on building a great business

07 Apr 2008 on Business, General

I’ve just introduced a new blog category to my blog topics Business. So in this category you will find some of my personal thoughts on business related things. Despite being at an early stage in my career, the idea of running a business at some point during my career journey is something I’m interested in doing. At this stage I’m not sure when that might happen, but I guess I’ll know eventually. Below are some initial thoughts on what I think makes a good business. This category is basically my thoughts regarding things I think I’…

Upcoming .NET user group events

02 Apr 2008 on Christchurch .NET User Group, NZ.NET

Next week we will be having our next user group session for the year where Peter Jones will be talking on SharePoint for ASP Developers. Also coming up this month is a session on Embedded Development which will also be the inaugural session for the newly launching Embedded user group. More details on the embedded user group session soon. Don’t forget, if you’ve got any questions, suggestions or ideas for the user group and session content feel free to post a comment here or contact me directly.…

dasblog Macros & Technorati tags

17 Feb 2008 on DasBlog, General, Technorati

I was spending some time today trying to figure out how to turn DasBlog categories into technorati friendly links because it seems Technorati doesn’t pickup the default dasblog category URLs, I’ve come across some posts that talk about creating custom macros to display digg it …etc links at the footer and this I came across this link here that has a list of tons of existing dasBlog Macros. In the link above I found that there already exists a <%TechnoratiTags%> tag that you can use, this will display your categories at technorati tags instead of the default…

Welcome to 2008, 2008 Summer Road Trip

16 Feb 2008 on NZ.NET, 2008SummerRoadTrip

Hey everyone and welcome to 2008, so this is my first post of the year and I’ve deliberately delayed my first blogging so that I start blogging straight after the 2008RoadTrip here in Christchurch. As you may know, Darryl, Jeremy and Chris have been doing a tour around the country (the road trip) with Chris and Jeremy presenting on SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 along with a local speaker covering Visual Studio 2008 and Darryl tagging along. I think Chris and JB have done a fantastic job presenting despite Chris feeling a little unwell. Our very own…

A new web search experience: Tafiti

30 Dec 2007 on Windows Live

A long time ago I wrote this post about Creativity & Innovation in products & service offerings in IT. Without repeating my other post; I mentioned that I find it interesting to see that big players in one area in the IT industry, such as Google in search and Microsoft in Windows & Office products start going away from their core competencies and offer additional products and services and move away from enhancing their core product (or so it seems to me anyway – not in all cases but in some) for instance, can anyone tell me what the latest major…