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Putting on My Tutor Hat
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:48 AM

The Australian Imagine Cup SD submissions have arrived yesterday. Time to put on my tutor hat (last worn back in Uni) and review the submissions. I need to identify a bunch of submissions before they undergo another round of review and the AU Finals.

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真不了解她 - I really don't understand her
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:07 PM

Last week, my landlady asked me to move out in 3 weeks time. She felt that we couldn't really get along. She thought that I was quiet and not interactive enough. The validity of that comment totally eludes me till this day. I got along very well with

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Rest Well Mini-Microsoft ...
Monday, May 29, 2006 10:49 PM

Looks like Mini-Microsoft is taking a break "All Good Things... " ... don't be gone for too long ... please.

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The Sesame Street Personality Quiz
Monday, May 29, 2006 10:34 PM

What's Your Sesame Street Personality? The quiz says I'm Bert and I think it's pretty spot on :) You Are Bert Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them!You are usually feeling: Logical

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Enhance Your Blog Posts with Free Photos
Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:04 PM

From News.com Web 2.0: BlogSick to death of the rotten stick figures that come with PowerPoint? Want to punch up your presentations, your blog, your Web site? Getting ready to shell out money for custom or stock photography? Don't. Instead, get free photos

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Office 2007 - Windows Vista Beta 2 Videos
Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:58 PM

Last week was a pretty big week for Microsoft, with both flagship products Office 12 (Office 2007) and Windows Vista Beta 2 shipped. CNet had produced two short videos which previews these two major releases and the new features to expect. Office 12/

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Why IBM is in Trouble
Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:10 PM

From PBS "I, Cringely" No word this week from Sam Palmisano. The CEO of IBM was strangely silent following my column last week about Google and Microsoft that also touched on the malaise at IBM -- a malaise very much of Mr. Palmisano's making.

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MEDC 2006 -250506
Sunday, May 28, 2006 8:22 AM

Here is a collection pictures taken during MEDC 2006. I had a positive experience both talking, interacting and learning from customers. I was also kept busy running operational tasks (I almost said multi-threads, as in an operating system terms,

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MEDC 2006, Melbourne - Day 0
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:47 PM

This is Bernard, blogging live from our Melbourne Office. You can locate my current location via Windows Live Local. Tomorrow is ANZ MEDC 2006 and it's all happening in Crown Casino, Melbourne. I have just caught up with some of the speakers this afternoon

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A Dinner Experience at Wildfire
Sunday, May 21, 2006 9:37 AM

Last Thur evening, I was at Wildfire, located at the Sydney Oversea Passenger Terminal. The restaurant ambience was quite intimate, and the venue interior was very luxurious, it truly has the settings for a fine establishment. Our dinner party ordered

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Quote of the Week
Saturday, May 20, 2006 8:33 AM

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, anddoes not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. -- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

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An Update on My Rent Interbank Transfer
Saturday, May 20, 2006 8:28 AM

I got back my money from the bank after the unsuccessful direct debit internet transfer. Good thing I got my money back and wasn't slap with another silly fee.

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Not Just Another Mediatation Video
Saturday, May 20, 2006 8:21 AM

(Via SMH "Start chanting the Kiwi mantra") Check out this 2min Kiwi mediatation video and you might just find yourself moving to another realm.

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News from the Other Side of the Fence
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:06 AM

Java Sun promises to open-source Java (News.com) Google/Cisco Graduate Recruitment and Citizenship Presence in Australia Google hot for tech talent (The Australian IT) Google searches for local talent (SMH) Cisco scouts schools (The

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An Insight into the Blogs I Read
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:56 PM

If you had a chance to review my shared OPML, you will notice that I have subscribe to quite a few Microsoft-Redmond-Seattle based blogs such as Kevin Schofield's Weblog, Kevin Briody "seattleduck", Doug's World and Heather's "Marketing

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Uncanny Similiarities
Monday, May 15, 2006 12:27 AM

I hsve just shared my OPML. For fun, I just click on the link to see who's reading lists are similiar to me.What are the odds that my OPML is remarkably similar to Frank Arrigo and Alfred Thompson? The blogsphere is so huge, interestingly my OPML are

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Are You Into Sudoku?
Monday, May 15, 2006 12:09 AM

If you are into Sudoku, then you should check out Lucas Magder's games development series using Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML featured on Coding 4 Fun site. It is really simple and well structured like tutorial exercise.

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Happy Mother's Day
Sunday, May 14, 2006 2:33 AM

Dear Mummy, Happy Mother's Day! I know this is not the first Mother's Day we had not celebrated today but this year I really felt the distance apart. Maybe it because I am re-adjusting living overseas once again. I'm glad you had received the Mother's

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An Expensive Day; Bad Experience with Internet Banking and House-mate
Friday, May 12, 2006 8:39 PM

Last weekend, I decided to pay my rent in advance via Internet banking to save some time with the bank account number provided by my "landlord" in her own writing. This afternoon, she rang me up asking why the money didn't show up in her account. I was

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MEDC 2006 Attendee Bonus
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:30 PM

Here is a sweetner for the guys attending MEDC 2006. On top of getting top quality Mobile and Embedded development content from Microsoft and industry partners. Now you can also apply what you learnt onto your very own i-Mate SP5/ VIA EPIA CN13000. That's

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MEDC 2006 - Melbourne, Australia
Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:20 PM

This is the Mobile and Embedded developer event for Australia and New Zealand, and you'll be exposed to deep dive seminars covering all the latest Mobile and Embedded developer topics. Come and meet the local Aussie mobile and embedded heros:

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Back to Gym
Monday, May 08, 2006 11:11 PM

A fornight ago, I bought a gym membership in my local gym - Fitness First Chatswood Platinum. I decided a gym membership was what I needed to keep fit especially during winter. Despite the high monthly dues ($86 p/month), I was won over by the sight of

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Subservient Programmer
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 11:54 PM

Just came across this site "Subservient Programmer" this evening. It's just silly and amusing to see the different responses from this guy :P

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This Morning's Sunrise
Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:06 AM

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Bloody Phone Spammer
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:53 PM

This arvo, a missed call number appeared on my mobile. I thought it could be urgent as I didn't have mail access for almost 2 days and returned the call. It turned out to be a bloody scam-ish "Oh you won a XXX lucky draw" conversation. Get lost, spammer!

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Sharpening Your IT Skills thru Competition
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:21 PM

Taking part in IT competitions can give you a chance to build up your team skills, keep up to date with technology and have a better feel of what the “hot spots” are, and sometimes even build up your reputation in the process. Read on more from this article

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BOB - Best of the Best Challenge
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:57 PM

BOB also known as Best of the Best Challenge is a student focused programming competition organised by the Singapore .NET User Group (Go Sgdotnet!), INETA and the Singapore Computer Society. It is a monthly competition where students can use Microsoft

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Even Foreign Policy is now blogging!
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:48 PM

Even Foreign Policy has been maintaining a blog (subscribed!) for quite sometime now. It’s entries as well short and well written, great blog to check out for those into current affairs, politics and economics. Now who can really doubt the effectiveness

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Back from DPE Team Offsite ...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:32 PM

I have just returned from the team offsite in Manly. It was an intensive two days of planning for the H1 FY07. Lots of opinions, field experiences and ideas were shared, “the official and FA sanction” definition of a Web VAR established, and DPE

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UI Refresh for Windows Live Mail Please
Monday, May 01, 2006 12:22 AM

I have been using the new Windows Live Mail beta for awhile now. Honestly, I have not really caught on with the Live Mail Beta UI as I have a big problem with the horrible ads placement layout and client side processing. Don't get me wrong, I recognise

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