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• Laser ice levelling - nice!

  Have to love the technology used to level the runway in Antarctica for the first regular link down there from Oz.....cannot help thinking about the irony of landing a plane on the ice in order to study the environment....lol Good weekend all! Share this... Posted Jan 11 2008, 10:55 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Technical, Miscellaneous Humour

• Fast plan to get into High End Enterprise Search...!

  Here are some more stories all around the FAST announcement yesterday - you have to love the manner in which the story is reported differently in the different media - Hats off to the IHT for using a picture of Bill Gates with Slash from Guns 'n' Roses... Posted Jan 09 2008, 11:38 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Business, Technical, Miscellaneous Humour

• Merry Christmas....yo ho ho greetings from all at Microsoft!

  Dear Friend & Business Partner, I would like to thank you for all your hard work and passion in 2007 – the SharePoint business has seen tremendous growth in the last year at Microsoft and this can be attributed to you our loyal partners. From knowing... Posted Dec 18 2007, 09:47 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business, Technical, Miscellaneous Humour

• Human 2.0: Windows Compute Human Server...early product team discussions..

  So as you will have seen last week and will see again tomorrow we have been out and about with the Partner TV video camera taking shots from the product teams when we manage to catch them! Here is a fascinating video clip of some early work we have planned... Posted Jun 04 2007, 11:45 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Business, Technical, Miscellaneous Humour, High Performance Computing, Opinion Piece

• Great ballmer video on Google and joining Microsoft

  Nice refreshing video here showing you a relaxed Steve and his views on Google as well as his joining process into Microsoft: Ballmer: Google's growth strategy is 'insane' Kind of cool and candid - hope you all have a great weekend! Enjoy! Share this... Posted Mar 16 2007, 02:28 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Business, Technical, Miscellaneous Humour

• Humour from Oz: Hmmm to Google or to LiveSearch...that is the question :-)

  One of my colleagues Nick over in Oz sent this post over to me which made me smile: http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmayhew/archive/2007/02/2... Nick fed us this vital bit of context as apparently the chap playing the tv presenter is actually the CEO of Channel... Posted Feb 22 2007, 04:41 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Business, Technical, Miscellaneous Humour