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While waiting for the Starbucks iCup machine to do it's thing I noticed that the stack of cups precisely mirrored the number of bars on my cell phone... spooky! - Mike
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Found this Dilbert cartoon quite funny (not even remotely close though). - Mike
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Spotted at the opening ceremony of the Embedded Systems Conference in Shenzhen - a marching band, one of which was carrying a... Tuba! - I assume that this was tucked away and out of sight for the trip in the car to the conference center! ( see previous
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I arrived in Shenzhen/China at about 8pm last night for the Embedded Systems Conference China - Just across the street from the hotel there's an interesting road sign... Which includes a Speed Restriction sign (40kph) and a sign that clearly shows that
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While waiting to get my morning Vanilla Latte (Grande, obviously), I noticed Randy Ramig from the Windows Mobile team wearing a lump of cheese on his head (see below). I can imagine the morning decision process... "Now, do I wear the Cheese, or the baseball
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I've just taken the Transformers quiz and it turns out I'm 79% Jazz! (I wonder what the other 21% is?) I AM 79% JAZZ Take the Transformers Quiz - Mike
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The guys at the NxtGenUG are heading to TechEd Europe/Barcelona (5-9 November 2007), and they appear to have "lost" something... Guess who might have have it? <g> So, rather than simply giving the "item" back to the NxtGenUG guys I thought it might
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MEDC 2007 Australia/New Zealand kicks off tomorrow morning (Tuesday 15th May), today we've been at the Microsoft Sydney office and have been rehearsing the keynote and sessions for MEDC. Security at the Microsoft office is amazing, take a look at the
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Some of the content owners for MEDC 2007 have put together a short video showing some of the ways "NOT" to present at a conference. Have you seen any presentations like the ones in the video ? - Mike
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Forget the bluetooth headset, why carry two devices that both need to be charged, perhaps the PhoneBoy from Stilic-Force is what you need. - Mike
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Derek Snyder and Loke Uei have been running around Microsoft Campus with a video camera to see how well prepared speakers are for their session at MEDC 2007 - check out the video on Lokes Blog . - Mike
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Finally arrived in Nuremberg after the flight from Paris was delayed due to problems with the aircraft. Tomorrow (Monday) is setup day at the conference center, most of the rest of the team are arriving tomorrow. I really like Nuremberg with it's mix
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The first day of Tech Days France/Paris is now over, this is a huge event with close to 12,000 attendees registered for a FREE multi-day technical event covering a whole range of Microsoft products and technologies, ranging from .NET Microframework, Visual
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Gosh, it must be Channel 9 day or something, here's another great video over on MSDN Channel 9 - Rory Blyth catches up with Mike Calligaro and discusses some of the interesting projects he's worked on (including Sega Dreamcast) and driver development.
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An interesting side effect of moving the Platform Builder tools into the VS 2005 shell is that it's possible to press "F9" to set a breakpoint in non-source files such as a BIB file (see image below) Note that the breakpoint won't fire unless you have
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