February 2007 Entries
I love Office 2007, I really do, but the time has come. I've put up with the lame RSS support in Outlook for too long and am ditching it. I never really understood why Outlook didn't simply use the common feeds with IE7; instead they used their own mechanism, which seems to arbitrarily decide whether feeds have been updated. Several of the feeds I subscribe to pop up entries hourly, even though the entries are old and have already been seen; some are weeks old. Sometimes an entire feed pops into view, with months worth of entries. I've finally reached the...
Some time ago I signed an online petition banning DRM, to which I have just received a reply from the government. Well, some cluless nobody, since it's not signed and contains the following: However, DRM does not only act as a policeman through technical protection measures, it also enables content companies to offer the consumer unprecedented choice in terms of how they consume content, and the corresponding price they wish to pay. I'm now trying to work out how a DRM locked CD or DVD gives me "unprecedented choice" of how I "consume content". So how is a CD...
I used to have a good sese of direction until I started using GPS - TomTom on my PDA. Tomorrow I'm heading 183 miles up the motorways to the NW of England to a client and although I know the way, I still use the GPS. I'm lazy and it stops me having to think about where I am. I'm a big believer in free and open mapping data, so thought about turning on the laptop and using MapPoint to log the journey points; I have a separate USB GPS that'll work fine for this. So I put in the...
Although I said it many times during the day, it would be remiss of me not to mention how much support we received from the WebDD Sponsors. To start with Microsoft hosted the event, provided the staff to run it on the day, the food and drinks, and generally made everything work smoothly. Thanks go to Clare for arranging all of that. Microsoft also gave away some Expression branded graphics tables.
Then we have the list of comapnies providing gifts for Prizes:
Madgex, whose Glen Jones was not only a speaker, but wrote the Backnetwork.
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I've already posted about the decision making process leading up to WebDD, so how about the event itself? Well, even though I do say so myself, I though we did a great job. Phil, myself, the speakers and all of the staff manning the event. It did start too well though, what with the the AV guy getting his foot stuck in a chair (it's a long story), to me breaking Jonathon Harris's laptop. I had a short presentation I wanted to run before the main sessions started, outlining a few logistics, thanking the speakers, etc, so had this on...
I want to start this post it what might come across as defensive mode. To a certain degree it is, but it's worth explaining some of the build up, the decisions we made and why we made them. So first off is scheduling and rooms. We know that some of you were disappointed in not being able to get into Scott Guthrie's talks and for that we can only apologize; here's the reasoning on why we did what we did.
We wanted to make the best use of what we had, which is the three rooms in building 3. Adding a...