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  • Why isn’t Windows Phone 8 an update for Nokia Lumia’s ?

    Yesterday’s announcement of Windows Phone 8 not being an upgrade for the latest Nokia phones, including Lumia 800, 900 et al, has been met understandably with both disappointment and anger from many existing handset owners. I’ve also seen some articles/comments that suggest it is needed for the greater...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Jun 21 2012
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  • Power efficiency, but at what cost ?

    My old’ish LCD monitor chews about 50 to 55 watts; the new LED backlight monitors of the same size use about 30 Watts. That’s roughly HALF the power !!  But when I do the sums, assuming the monitor is on for 10 hours a day for 300 days a year, the difference is about 60 to 75 kWh, which in today...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Jan 14 2011
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  • People need protection from themselves

    It’s amazing how many people fall for scams and social engineering tricks on the internet. Some may remember the classic “ I Love you” virus from back at the start of the century: it infected 50 million users within a week or two.  It was actually a very amateurish virus except for one detail: social...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, May 12 2010
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  • Why Live Maps sucks compared to Google maps

    The user experience of Live Maps completely sucks compared to Google Maps. It’s that bad I really don’t think they even bother testing it.   Live Maps experience: go to maps.live.com. Here it redirects to http://maps.live.com.au/? which seems to fail to properly load every single time. Instead you...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Apr 30 2009
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  • no triffids there ?

    I'm in utter disbelieve that people don't automatically know the 1962/63 cult classic film, " the day of the triffids "
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Apr 2 2008
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  • More on videos from Lang.NET symposium

    If you want to download the videos to watch later, or to happily play them faster, skip ahead etc, then you can grab the .wmv files instead of having to watch them in a browser in silverlight. I like to increase the play speed in parts and silverlight doesn't allow that ;) To get the .wmv's,...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Feb 22 2008
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  • Microsoft thinks VB programmers are so "special" ...

    I was flicking through some MSDN help pages, when I noticed this topic on Component Authoring: Isn't it nice how "special" Microsoft views VB folks. Obviously anyone using C# doesn't have this issue, it's just the people using VB. Not patronising at all <geez> Oh well, at...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Feb 20 2008
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  • And the beer was ....

    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sat, Feb 16 2008
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  • Fixing explorer in Vista

    One of the most annoying things I have found about Vista is the file explorer. It constantly changes the views of folders and way too often sets the columns in a folder as if the folder contains photos when it doesn't. To me that is really disappointing and undermines any confidence I could have...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Feb 15 2008
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  • I say perceptions, you say illusions ...

    Andrew Coates has a picture of what he coins an "illusion". I prefer to think of it as a perception, not an illusion. In the picture a square is rendered as being in the shade. So the mind adjusts what the colour actually is in full light based on surrounding information. The reason for this...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Nov 7 2007
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  • Counting deck chairs on the titanic

    Paul Vick released some statistics in relation to VB , which for discussion sake I'll repeat here : Visual Basic is the #1 .NET language (as reported by Forrester Research) Visual Basic is the #1 downloaded and #1 registered Express Edition (topping the #2 position by 20%) Visual Basic is the #1...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Nov 2 2007
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  • More than just advertising...

    I was listening to Sean O'Driscoll's blog cast earlier today while working in the kitchen, and one thing stuck me was the analogy he made about buying a camera. This reminded me of something I saw on a Dell forum recently... I had purchased a Dell monitor, and the monitor itself is beautiful...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Tue, Jun 5 2007
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  • What does your car say about you ?

    Sometimes cars seem to manifest certain personas about their owners, be it the hippy volkswagen, through to the hoon car. Well yesterday I think I noticed one I hadn't really seen before. It could be just coincidence of course ….. Yesterday morning, Easter Sunday, my pager went off to attend a car accident...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Apr 8 2007
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  • So, that was TedchEd 2006..

    Despite catching a cold from the moment I landed in Sydney, and a terrible tips and tricks presentation, TechEd 2006 was a lot of Fun. First let's see how it went on the " reasons to TechEd " evaluator: (1) the shirts : Well all I saw was all cotton, so things are potentially looking good ;) MS's forefront...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Aug 28 2006
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  • How smart is google ?

    A while ago, my old friend Patrick Meader (who must never read my blog) **complained** to me that I needed to fill in my About page on this blog as it is almost impossible to tell who's blog this is. The title of the blog just says "@Head : Bill's random thoughts". Then today, I saw Frank's post about...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Aug 10 2006
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  • Microsoft and the gay thing

    The other week when I read about Steve Ballmer's email to Microsoft employees , and how they decided to take a "neutral" stance on legislation that was aimed at protecting the rights of gays, well I must admit I was pretty apathetic. First I'm not gay. Second, it's USA legislation and I'm Australian...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, May 4 2005
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  • Over 200 MVPs !!

    Wow, over 200 MVPs have signed the petition to Microsoft asking for a better road forward for VB6 . Total signatories as I write this is already over 1500 !! And reading the blogsphere there are other great names who haven’t signed the petition that also think Microsoft needs to do something better...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Mar 13 2005
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  • Smoking makes you stupid

    As a reformed smoker, ( and a reformed bearded person for that matter), I just loved this article in today’s paper. Oh, and they stink too
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Dec 10 2004
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  • My Independence Day

    So you are probably wondering why would an Aussie care about July 4th, right ? Well for me it signifies a day when I gained my independence two years ago from … Tobacco. Yep, two years ago I gave up smoking for good, after over 20 years of smoking. At the time I was a heavy smoker and the fact...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Mon, Jul 5 2004
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