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November 2006 - Posts

I Just Don't Fly Enuff with SQ
Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:51 PM

I flew with Singapore Airlines throughout my college years in Melbourne, chose to stay in Krisflyer partner hotels and recently to India too but still I don't fly enough points to exchange for a practicable return tix home or move up from basic tier.

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Australia Imagine Cup 2007 Blog
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:23 PM

This evening, the new Australia Imagine Cup 2007 blog was launched! I think a blog is the best mechanism to let everyone get up to the minute news about the Imagine Cup. Check out the first entry where I give a sneak preview of the local competition

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Hotmail is now 1GB!
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 6:40 AM

From the Hotmail Team Blog, now all Hotmail accounts are 1GB! It's awesome! Next item on the list, increased spam detection and elimination.

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XNA Game Developer Event - Brisbane
Monday, November 27, 2006 9:13 PM

Games developer enthusiasts readers based in Brissy, good news! The Queensland MSDN User Group Nov meeting draws the focus on games developement and they have 3 exciting speakers to present on 28 Nov (Tue). Speaker 1: Dr Ross Brown (QUT) - The

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Pictures of the Sydney Opera House
Monday, November 27, 2006 8:21 PM

Last evening, I took some pictures of the Sydney Opera House from Circular Quay. You are most welcome to check it out.

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Wollongong Day Trip
Sunday, November 26, 2006 6:28 PM

Here are pictures from my day trip to Wollongong

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Windows Live Mail Desktop Review
Saturday, November 25, 2006 7:14 AM

Recently, I have been toying with Windows Live Mail Desktop. It's more than just the plain Gmail Notifier. It is an application that allows you to have one single view of all your online communication tools - Emails (hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail. your isp

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Cool Live Services Project Opportunity
Friday, November 24, 2006 9:57 PM

Tatham had just alerted me to cool internship opportunity in the company he works for. It's a secret project based around Live Services and Dr Neil is also involved in it. Sounds like something really cool and exciting to be involved in.

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TakeNote.com.au
Friday, November 24, 2006 9:34 PM

This is such a cool site - takenote.com.au You can either write a note to a friend, stranger or back to yourself online and the web site will post the note for you, anywhere free within Australia! I always feel that an effective campagin must always

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Amazing Images of Animals in the Womb
Friday, November 24, 2006 6:15 AM

Baby Elephant For more, check out Amazing Images of Animals in the Womb (BBC News)

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Items on my To-Do List ...
Thursday, November 23, 2006 8:39 PM

There are still several items on my personal to-do list: . update my resume . response to an blog interview invitation . blog about two new technologies . finish up my Wired and New Yorker . start on The Prince but ... I'm not going to do any of

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The origins of iPod
Monday, November 20, 2006 8:40 PM

Recently I came across an article on the Nov 2006 Wired magazine which narrates the orgins of iPod and the prople behind it. It's interesting to look back at the design decisions behind the product and the group of people who were working on it. One

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Wanna Free Vista Cap and Decal?
Monday, November 20, 2006 8:04 PM

Long (from the famed 'istartedsomething.com) is giving away free 3 Vista caps and decals. All you need to do is to provide an attractive proposal where you might stick a Vista decal if you win one. Winners are picked randomly, good luck!

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My 2006 SEA-LAS-TPE Vacation
Saturday, November 18, 2006 8:14 PM

Recently I was on vacation to Seattle, Las Vegas and Taipei. It was a great trip as I had caught up with many friends and fav Microsoft bloggers for chats in Redmond in person. I was also able to attend the campus Vista RTM party too! It was interesting

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The Prince - Machiavelli
Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:57 AM

I'm interested to read The Prince by Machiavelli (wiki)and I'm seeking an edition that has accompanying commentary so that I can understand the underlining concepts better. Can anyone recommend any particular editon or feedback about this book? My

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Questions about the Microsoft Intern Experience?
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:08 PM

I am planning to write about the Microsoft internship program in my next theSpoke-chats article. Does anyone have any questions about the Microsoft internship program? I will attempt to cover both the Australia and US internship programs (of

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Vista RTM Party in Campus - 10 Nov 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:53 PM

Last week (10 Nov 2006) when I was in campus, J-K invited me to come along for the Vista RTM party held in B26 garages. It was a great party, 2 areas with live music, pool tables, massage areas, interesting demos (the Vista racer, and DirectX 10 "the

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Taipei Night Scene
Monday, November 13, 2006 5:03 PM

The energy and pulse of Taipei City is quite unique. Taipei is developed city but this city still retains it's own energy and not all lost to modern global city gentrification. I hope to spend more time in Taipei on another occasion.

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Signage of the Day: The Men's Room in Pacific Place
Monday, November 13, 2006 4:51 PM

The Pacific Place Men's Room signage is quite unique and appropriate especially for a shopping mall.

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theSpoke Users: Upgrade to IE7 with Confidence Today!
Friday, November 10, 2006 6:00 PM

I remembered back in those days of IE7 Beta 1, theSpoke can barely been used with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). It was rather aweful user experience because many parts of this site broke on IE 7 Beta 1. But I'm sure you all know IE 7 has since shipped since

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A PhotoSynth Screencast and Some Demo Screenshots
Friday, November 10, 2006 5:26 PM

(Via Frankarr's Blog) Long Zheng has recently created and uploaded his own screencast of PhotoSynth on Soapbox. Check it out!Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth screencast (by Long Zheng) I have installed and tried PhotoSynth too! You just need

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My Meeting with Zoe and Gretchen
Friday, November 10, 2006 1:20 PM

A few days ago, I caught up with Zoe and Gretchen (former Microsoft Recruiters, now entrepreneurs behind JobSyntax) for coffee. Initially, I had envisaged our coffee to be short meet and greet catch up but instead our meeting went to an hour. Several

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PhotoSynth - New from the Live Lab
Friday, November 10, 2006 11:34 AM

Yesterday I visited an fellow Singaporean who is working as a PM in Microsoft, he showed me around his building and I came across several really cool pictures taken about the Pix team along the corridor. Those digitally enhanced pictures were unbelievable!

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Photo of the Day ... at a Coffee Shop
Friday, November 10, 2006 9:34 AM

Passed by a coffee stall this afternoon and took this picture. American politics is nasty. So much money is spend on campaigning, negative TV ads, talking bad about the different candidates. Is it what the general public want to know about

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Windows Vista is Here - RTM
Thursday, November 09, 2006 8:56 AM

We have finally RTMed Windows Vista today! I have seen bits of Vista (then Longhorn) since my student ambassador days (2004), MVP Global Summit (2005) and today I'm actually in campus (2006)to learn the RTM news of Vista! I wonder if there

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Online Video Contest
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:06 PM

Are you producing your own videos to upload on the Internet and pass on to your friends? Then you wanna check out this contest, where you stand to win a digital camcorder (Sony DCR-HC21 MiniDV Handycam Camcorder) and video editing software

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Grab that URL - a Live Messenger Tip!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:55 AM

Sometimes I leave an URL on my Messenger personal message field, eg: Berno - http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20721457^15321^^nbv^,00.html Nasa, a lead from the Messenger team had blogged ("Tip for those curious but lazy! :)") a tip

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Check out Live Search Now Goes 3D!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:51 AM

Have you checked out the new rendering service from Live Search. Right now, I can view a location (for example a landmark building) in 3D. That will be really cool and useful especially if I’m trying to identify a building in a new area. So now, I can

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Halloween in Campus 2006
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:22 PM

This arvo I caught up with Priya (who also blogs on Technical Careers @ Microsoft) and Carrie over lunch in campus and I noticed a lot of kids are dressed up for Halloween today. I decided to go on a prowl to capture the spirit of Halloween

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Online Travel Shopping
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:46 AM

These days, I am very used to booking my travel arrangement online, I just love a fair price and not just after the cheapest price*. Armed only a tabbed browsing enabled browser (now available on IE 7) and a search engine, I combed the 7 seas web server

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