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• It's not about computation, it's connection and visualization

  Yesterday Microsoft UK had its company conference in Brighton, and I always have mixed feelings about these affairs. We transported 1000 people 100 miles and told and with no sense of irony whatsoever we told them about what the company was doing about... Posted Sep 04 2008, 07:10 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: General musings, Photography, Working at Microsoft, Photosynth, pptPlex, Deep-zoom

• ExpressCard (not express delivery), travel and Benchmarks.

  Back in March I wrote that 64 bit Vista marked the end of the line for my Lexar 32bit Cardbus adapter. It got lost in the post on the way from Hong Kong. I gave it enough time to be sure it really was lost and the e-bay seller sent me another which arrived... Posted May 31 2007, 12:06 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Vista, General musings, How to, Photography

• Pentax manifesto.

  Regular readers (it seems I have some) may have picked up that (a) I use Pentax cameras and (b) I like the edgy cartoons which Hugh Macleod draws (like this rude one ), and we've unofficially adopted his " Blue monster " inside Microsoft. One of the interesting... Posted Mar 09 2007, 06:12 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: General musings, Photography

• Not the usual mobile device review.

  There's no two ways about it. I'm loving the new camera . When I'd been with Microsoft a few weeks we were issued with the first iPAQ PDAs. I've been interested in the different things you can do with mobile devices ever since, in questions like "What... Posted Jan 01 2007, 11:22 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: General musings, Photography