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Tech.Ed 2006 Site is Up!
Sunday, April 30, 2006 10:43 AM

The Australian Tech.Ed 2006 site is now live! Check out the site's smooth slick Aero-ish look and a Vista overture. It's happening on Aug 22-25 in Sydney this year. Students in Australia - Locked down Aug 22 in your calendar! An awesome Student Day

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TGIF!
Friday, April 28, 2006 8:31 PM

This week has been a pretty hectic week and I am just glad it's Friday. The previous weekends had been spent busy hanging out with friends and relatives visiting from Singapore. I have friends from Singapore almost every weekend since my move to

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IT Workers In Demand
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:19 PM

The local IT industry continue to see hiring growth in the latest article from The Australian IT - "IT workers in demand"(26/4)

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IE 7 Beta 2 Released
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:16 PM

The Internet Explorer Team has released IE 7 Beta 2 (that's right, the full blown beta experience, not preview, just one more step to full release) this week and it's now available for download here. Has anyone tested it's compatibility with theSpoke

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Beat the World Record!
Sunday, April 23, 2006 2:21 PM

Taxi ride to Coogee beach - $18.80 Quick brekkie before staff briefing - $4.45 Being a part of world largest water balloon challenge at Coogee beach - Priceless (I was part of the grey team too!) You can read more the

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An Alternative Point of View: Why life offline has its virtues
Saturday, April 22, 2006 9:13 PM

BBC regular columnist Bill Thompson explains why he does not want to put all his life online. More on BBC News

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Saving One Soul at a Time <grin />
Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:25 PM

I'm having a great time meeting the attendees at the ASWEC 2006. During the event, I had the pleasure to chat with Kevin Francis. Kevin is an Australian Solution Architect MVP working for Infosys in Melbourne (WOAH! GO MELBOURNE!). He gave an enlightening

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Live from ASWEC 2006
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:27 PM

This week I'm out of the office and as I am attending The Australian Software Enginnering Conference (ASWEC 2006) in Sydney. I'm excited to be here as I have the opportunity to discuss with industry software practitioners and academics about application

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Photo2Search: Explore the Real World via Camera Phone
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:06 AM

Fresh from Microsoft Research Asia Labs: Camera-phone users may be able to search the Web for information via photographs of their surroundings. Read more ... Ber: Now that is one piece of technology I can definitely look forward :) Via: Run Like

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MS-Ipod?
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:13 PM

This morning I came across this "MS-Ipod" video link from VB NET Helper Newsletter (highly recommended resource for VB developers out there).I thought it was prety spot on and its quite funny to laugh at ourselves.

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Importance of Personal Branding as a Competitive Advantage
Monday, April 17, 2006 9:27 PM

Here is an article from Coding Horror "Your Personal Brand" about the importance of personal branding as a competitive advantage in today's world. Source: Run like the Wind, Sweat like a Pig "Importance of Personal Branding as a Competitive Advantage

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What’s in a Name? A Microsoft alias Tale
Monday, April 17, 2006 9:08 PM

Neel Ishwar Murarka "Bubba" wrote an interesting annotate about Microsoft alias as he guest blogs on the Scobleizer. I didn't get to determine my alias but good thing the MS-IT guys gave me a nice alias "t-berno". It's back to work tomorrow :)

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Russia dominates computer-programming contest
Monday, April 17, 2006 7:09 PM

Russia takes four of the top 10 spots in the 2006 Associate for Computer Machinery's International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC).- more from News.comThe programming questions used in the competition are available online here.Are we expecting

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Look Ma! No Sweat!
Monday, April 17, 2006 3:55 PM

This arvo, managed to fix up my own wardrobe from IKEA. Must admit, I'm pretty pleased with myself. I'm generally quite hopeless with it comes to working with tools. I guess there is a survival instinct in everyone that helps us overcome our "perceived"

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100 Days Report - Observations of a Nouveau Blogger
Monday, April 17, 2006 3:06 PM

I am very fond of Guy Kawasaki's blog because he shares many bite sized insighful observations about competing in today business. When he blogged about his first 100 days as a blogger, I was quite surprised to know that he had not been blogging for

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Sydney Harbour Bridge in the Evening
Sunday, April 16, 2006 11:42 PM

I like this picture very much. It would be better if I had a tripod, but for now, it's looks great as an icon as my MSN Messenger display picture.

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My First Easter in Sydney
Sunday, April 16, 2006 11:30 AM

This morning, I went for Easter Sunday mass, expecting a pretty much run of the mill program. Isn't it what early morning masses are for? Standard, no-frill, basic and lean. The scene that greeted me at the Church entrance was quite the contrary. The

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Are You Using IE 7 Beta 2 Preview?
Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:30 PM

Are you using IE 7 Beta 2 Preview? Noticed some bugs, or have a feature suggestion or some burning IE related devlopment issues? The IE team had posted the transcript from their recent web chat (April 13) that touched on some of these issues, it's

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Blogroll Finally Organised
Friday, April 14, 2006 12:31 PM

Things have changed so much since the last time I caught up with blogs, and boy! I feel like a dinosaur from those Office 2003 ads. Gretchen from JobsBlog is leaving Microsoft, Kevin Schofield has started a new Education blog (subscribed!), loads

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i-Juice
Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:28 PM

Finally I got Internet access sorted at home for this Easter. I'm in Internet bliss ... ahhhhh

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Suffering from Coding Dysfunction?
Sunday, April 09, 2006 11:47 AM

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How I Work: Bill Gates
Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:50 PM

This week I attended NEO (New Employee Orientation) which was an entire week program. One of the tracks focused on the tools and services available to employees here in Microsoft, services like Live Meeting, conferencing and the necessary evil– Outlook.The

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New Online Games with Sex Appeal
Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:46 PM

Online games have so far mainly revolved around the killing of fantasy monsters. The occasional fight with a Stormtrooper provides some variety.Companies are now developing a handful of games - though calling them that is a stretch - designed to give

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Boom month for IT jobs
Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:13 AM

Recently I noticed an improvement on IT new graduates employment figures here in Australia (see "Boom month for IT jobs" The Australian IT), how's the situation in your part of the world? I am particularly pleased to see an huge improvement in software

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