Just thought I’d recommend Eric Sink’s blog and book. As I mentioned in an earlier post I thought everyone read his blog, but at UG the other night it turns out many were missing out on this little gem. I’ve read the book, and yes, it is mostly just re-workings of his blog entries, but still worth buying for the ‘easy, offline experience’. Good reading for software...
This is a promo post for Greg Low’s new book on running user groups. Greg is a Microsoft Regional Director down under and a SQL Server MVP. He’s also run (and still runs) some very successful (by which I mean extremely helpful to the community) user groups. He’s written a few books, but the one I want to recommend is this one: Building Technical User Communities. Greg was kind...
I’m very pleased to report that our first meeting of the Sydney Business & Technology User Group went well. There was a much bigger turnout than I had expected (we ran out of pizza early!). My thanks to the people who came just to support the group even though it may not directly relevant to them – it was very much appreciated. Overall the night went well. My session was reasonably...
I’d like to announce the new Sydney Business & Technology User Group, commencing next Wednesday 30 May 2007. For those who want to cut to the chase, go the web site here: www.sbtug.com Who is it for? The new group is designed for senior developers, team leaders, software managers and software company owners. As such the talks are geared for that audience, but everyone is of course...
Bottom line: you need to completely uninstall and reinstall office! As part of my re-install recently I had to reinstall Office 2007. Not a drama. But when I first started Outlook I made the mistake of not setting up an email account right away (silly me!). Well it turns out that Outlook didn’t really like this, and crashed when getting through the wizard and attempting to display the Home...
Just wondering if you could do me a favour… I’m trying to get a better handle on my readership, so I was hoping you’d be kind enough to subscribe to my FeedBurner feed instead of directly point to the Blogger URL. All you need to do is point your RSS reader to this: If you are just browsing (i.e. not using a RSS reader) then you can also use the new URL, but it won’t look as...
I love Picasa as a photo (and video) organiser. And I especially love how easy it is to put your photos on the web as albums (with no advertising!). It only takes a few clicks and a whole Picasa album is then available for friends and family to see. And although I had backed up all my photos (probably the most precious items on my machine when I think about it) I had never thought about backing...
Well, it’s great to be back. The last few weeks of ‘increased productivity’ J have been due to my notebook’s premature death. Not to worry, Magic Dave (Talman’s IT guru) got me all back up and running and in the process loaded Vista on my machine (the machine required a complete reformat and install). And on the weekend I finally got around to reinstalling FeedDemon...
Thanks to Pete Huish for sending this little gem to me. Yes, we’ve all sat through these kinds of presentations – in fact some of the examples here are so bad I was wondering if they had been staged… but very funny all the same.
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SOLUTION: Reduce the MTU setting on my ADSL router PROBLEM: We had a really weird thing happening from home where wee couldn’t connect to a few web sites. Microsoft was one and SMH (A sydney newspaper) was another. But all others were fine. Also, Michele and I trouble sending and receiving email from our home account. I could VPN in to work and browse the sites fine, so it was looking like...