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Microsoft - Top 5 Companies to Intern
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:15 AM

Recently, Fortune magazine named Microsoft one of the five best places to intern for real work, praising the company policy of giving all interns the same work as full-time hires. "For interns like Francisco Garcia-Ascanio, the challenge of real work

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Filing Expenses Claim and Tax Return
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:40 AM

Grrr ... welcome to Adulthood 101. Filing two months of expenses claim in one sitting and getting ready to make my annual income tax return claims. Why can't these be easier?

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Virtual Earth Interactive SDK
Monday, August 28, 2006 12:09 PM

Looking to implement a bit of Virtual Earth love onto your next web project? It's easy to accomplish each task with the individual Javascript examples Check out the Virtual Earth SDK online.

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Sander Kleineberg - GU Underground 04
Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:37 AM

My fav dance record labels tend to be those who are avant-garde, progressive and creative. I want to be educated by the artist/DJ, introducing me to new mixes, artists and styles. That is why I am wary of pop labels like Global Underground

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Goodbye Tech.Ed Australia 2006
Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:41 AM

Tech.Ed 2006 - What an experience! The memories, experiences and friendship established will go long down in my memory. I am extremely grateful for the advice, support and encouragement from my manager, team mates (Deeps, Mon and Scott) and Tech.Ed core

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Not Getting Carried Away with One's Success
Friday, August 25, 2006 11:41 PM

Question: What keeps you awake at night? Answer: I worry that we get caught in our own success and forget to reinvent ourselves. We have such a strong culture in the company that without realizing it we are sometimes saying “but that’s not our way of

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Look Ma! Team Australia on Channel 9
Friday, August 25, 2006 2:05 PM

The Australian Imagine Cup Team's interview with Channel 9 had been uploaded! Check it out from here (from 05:21-11:37).

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India Sightseeing Pictures
Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:33 PM

During my time in India, I had 1.5 days to do some sight-seeing. India is an incredible country, 1.5 days certainly not enough. Here is a selection of the photos taken. Taj Mahal New Delhi

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A Visit to Microsoft Research India
Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:56 PM

During my trip to India, the Canberra Times journalist – Dianelle and I visited Microsoft Research Labs in Bangalore, India to understand the innovation behind Microsoft research. We were warmly welcomed by Dr. Anadan and his team including Dr. Toyama,

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Pictures from WW Imagine Cup Finals 2006, India
Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:30 PM

Imagine Cup WW Finals was truly a memorable experience. I was awed and humbled by the talent, creativity, intelligence, passion and diversity of ideas from all the contestants during the finals in India. That is what engaging with the academic community

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Pictures of Tech.Ed 2006 Expo Area
Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:13 PM

Microsoft Technology Showcase Digital Lifestyle Dev'garten CommNet Canbana Sessions

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Pictures from Student Day - 22 Aug
Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:20 AM

Here are the pictures taken during Tech.Ed Student Day - 22 Aug 2006. The opening address was absolutely well received by the audience and many students blitzed our speakers unceasingly at the Speakers Stand. The situation was pretty similiar for the

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Tech.Ed Haiku - my own composition
Monday, August 21, 2006 11:00 PM

Tech.Ed where I amMeeting the communityBlogging response slow

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An Interview with Long Zheng, Presenter - Student Day
Monday, August 21, 2006 1:06 AM

Student Day (Aug 21) and Tech.Ed (Aug 22-25) are happening next week and finally I will have a chance to meet and work along side with my new friend – Long Zheng. Long is co-presenter with Frank Arrigo on Office 2007 on Student Day. We have been IM-ing

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Speedtest.net - My Result
Monday, August 21, 2006 1:05 AM

What's your connection results like?

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Behind The Scenes At TechEd #8 - Bernard Oh
Sunday, August 20, 2006 10:21 AM

Recently I did a Techtalk Blog "Behind the Scenes"interview with Geoff Appleby (Visual Basic MVP, awesome community leader based in Canberra) about Student Day. Woah! My first blog interview. Check it out!

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Positive Quote for the Week
Sunday, August 20, 2006 2:45 AM

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade intothem with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. -- Arland Gilbert ... Student Partners Day (private event, Aug 21), Student Day (Aug 22), Tech.Ed 2006 (Aug 23-25) all happening

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Final boarding call for Al Kyder and Terry Wrist
Friday, August 18, 2006 11:47 PM

Came across this blog entry "Final boarding call for Al Kyder (Al Qaeda) and Terry Wrist (Terrorist)" from Long's blog. The video is quite funny, just look at the flight attendant's face! It's also amazing how lax airport security are. Sometimes I wonder

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AU Student Partners Live!
Friday, August 18, 2006 11:19 PM

The new AU Student Partners program has been launched, replacing the old Student Ambassadors program. New in this release is the integration of our Student Partners profiles and their university details together with Local Live AU.You can try it for

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Redmond-Asia Recruitment Offsite
Friday, August 18, 2006 5:48 PM

The Microsoft International Recruitment team is visiting Asia to conduct interviews for interested and qualified software development candidates (SDE/ SDET). These full time positions are based in Redmond.Click here for more information about this opportunity.If

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Monash-Microsoft Scholarship Opportunity
Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:15 PM

Microsoft Australia have partnered with Monash University to offer an undergraduate ICT scholarship. Click here for more information. More such scholarship opportunities for other universitites are in the pipeline. Kudos to Deeps for making this

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Vote Neil!
Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:30 PM

Vote for Neil Bamber - Make Him our Community's Choice! Description about Neil's ApplicationA relationship tracking system An application that tracks the relationships between friends and business associates. Each person would be represented by a

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My Imagine Cup Haiku by Dave L.
Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:25 PM

The newest old oneInbound from battle of dreamsTimely return home ... it sounds so good, and I love it man! I'm gonna use it as my Imagine Cup de-brief introduction. Thanks Dave!

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DPE explores our Japanese side
Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:03 PM

I suspect Dave L has been adding something in our water supply. Suddenly several people in our team had began sprouting haiku. Here's mine The mental rush push thrueventually it arrives in in moment of anticipation I open yours Here are others floating

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Agile IT graduates equipped for long-term career success
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:24 AM

To get a job in today's changing and demand job market requires a multi-facets individual. Check out the Ron Weber's article "Agile IT graduates equipped for long-term career success" on the Herald to understand more about it.

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Good bye Singapore .. Hello Sydney
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:15 AM

For the past two days, I was in Singapore on a transit visit back home. Managed to catch up with Ax and SM over dinner on Mon as well as friends from Earth9 and APAC RHQ. This transit stop has been a great bonus (thanks Ben!). Sadly, I will be on

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A Mobile Work Force Experience
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:37 PM

What a global and mobile work force we live in these days. I am currently working on the Australia Student Day in the APAC RHQ Drop (Singapore) in one of the drop-in office rooms. There are good wireless coverage and international phone calls facility,

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RE: Where is this place?
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 3:13 PM

Refering to my earlier post "Where is this place?", Andrey was correct. That picture I took was from the side enterance of the Baha'i Temple (also known as the Lotus Temple) in Delhi. It's a beautiful temple and their interior is very minimal and reflective.

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Where is this Place?
Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:03 PM

Wanna make a guess where is this place?

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And the winner is ....
Friday, August 11, 2006 10:13 PM

And the winner of this year's Imagine Cup WW Finals (Software Design Invitational) is the team from Italy! Congrats, Giorgio and team members. That's two world wide finals wins for the nation of Italy: FIFA World Cup and now Microsoft Imagine Cup

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This Antz's Blog Got Mentioned!
Friday, August 11, 2006 1:33 PM

Well this little antz' baby project - Student Day was mentioned by Jobsblog (Dhanyawaad! Priya - International Recruiter) as well as JobSyntax (Thanks Zoe and Gretchen). What a privilege!

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Day 4 Pictures- Imagine Cup Finals
Friday, August 11, 2006 2:20 AM

Sorry for the lack of entries because I have been incredibly busy for the past 2 days. I was over in Bangalore to make a visit to Microsoft Research (India). P.Anadan (Managing Director), Ken Toyama (Asst. Managing Director), Vidya (Director, Strategy)

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Day 1 Pictures - Imagine Cup Finals 06
Monday, August 07, 2006 7:42 PM

The Aussie Team have completed had just completed their initial lighting round presentation with the SDI judges and now preparing for theirRound 1 presentations. I reckon the boys were pretty relaxed during their presentation. I reckon Skippy brought

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Day 0 Pictures- Imagine Cup Finals 06
Monday, August 07, 2006 4:56 AM

I have uploaded my pictures taken during Day 0 (06 Aug 06) of the Imagine Cup WW Finals on this flickr "ic_ww_finals_06" account. My new friend, Marcin, a participant from the Polish SDI team, has also created his own Imagine

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Day 0 - Imagine Cup Finals (Agra)
Sunday, August 06, 2006 4:35 PM

Throughout the morning, various teams participating in this year's Imagine Cup 2006 gradually made their way to the Jaypee Palace Hotel. You really got to be here to realise exactly how international the Imagine Cup has grown. So far I have made contact

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We Arrived - Welcome to Imagine Cup 2006
Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:05 AM

After more than 27 hours on the road and in the sky, the Australian Imagine Cup Team have finally arrived safe and sound here in Agra, India. We are currently checked in to the Jaypee Palace Hotel. Man, I need a shave and a proper shower.

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Imagine Cup 2006 WW Finals Countdown: SDI Teams Preview
Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:47 PM

T-4! Only four more days to the Imagine Cup WW Finals in India. If you are interested to find out what are the projects submitted for the Software Design Invitationals, you must check out this link! Here is the direct link to the Australia SDI entry

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Tech.Ed Student Day - Your Pass to a Great Day Out!
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:34 PM

Are you enrolled in an IT course in school? Wondering what diverse opportunities lies ahead as the IT sector? Want to gain tips from leading recruiters from Michael Page and Microsoft on how to excel in today's job market? Want to preview the upcoming

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Great Dell Hardware Offer
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:33 PM

Wanna score a great hardware deal? Check out these great value Tech.Ed desktops (Vista-ready) deals. It's all goodness! Dell Optiplex GX620 Model 1 - AUD 999.09 x GST1 GB of RAM 80GB Hard disk Intel Pentium 2.8Ghz Dual Core Processor 128Mb of dedicated

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