frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger

Ponderings from the Pacific Northwest by an Aussie Geek who works at a software company

LOVE the meme

Hehe - gotta LOVE a meme Rory does my dirty work [ Currently Playing : Bloody Mary (Spain) - Las...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/31/2006

Gary Wisniewski Proposes Microsoft Scrap The Windows Codebase

Gary Wisniewski continues his excellent series of posts, with Windows TNG: Scrap The Windows...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/31/2006

Mathletics - All the kids are doing it.

Earlier this year, my dauighter Emma came home and told me about this new thing she was doing called...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/31/2006

LinkedIn Dilemma Solved

This morning, I had a dilemma Some sage advice was left amongst the comments. I knew what I was...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/30/2006

The Big Office Move

I moved office today. First move for a number years. I moved from an office on one side of the...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/30/2006

On the horns of a LinkedIn Dilemma....

I got a request last week from one of my LinkedIn connections to forward an introduction along to a...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/29/2006

Microsoft's New Win-Win Strategy ?

My old mate Gary Wisniewski has put forward a very challenging post titled "Microsoft's New Win-Win...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/29/2006

MEDC 2006 : Seems Like it was a hit

Last Thursday, May 25th, in Melbourne, we had the Australian MEDC 2006 hit town. Looking at blog...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/29/2006

Roll your own podcasting support for WMP 11

So, the feeling is that Microsoft's lack of action will slow Podcasting Growth. James O'Neill has...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/28/2006

SMH goes Web 2.0 ?

I noticed a subtle change on the SMH Tech site, at the bottom of most stories How Web 2.0! I found...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/25/2006

TechTalkBlogs : +90 days

I might be at home sick but that's not going to stop me doing the update on TechTalkBlogs for the...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/25/2006

Beta Mania : Windows Vista, Office 2007, WinFX, VSTO

People are excited. Mucho Betas to download. Office 2007 System Vista, WinFX and the Windows SDK:...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/24/2006

Windows Live Local - now with Aussie Maps

The WLL dev team have pushed out a big update with lots of new features. The one feature that I...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/24/2006

Made In Express Contest : An Aussie Finalist

Dan Fernandez gives an update on the Made in Express Contest I had a quick look and noticed an...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/23/2006

No Webstock for Frank, thanks to PinkEye

This morning I woke up not feeling the best. My eyes were stuck together - always a bad sign. Moira...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/22/2006

Tech.Ed 2006 - Are you into IT?

Late last week, we posted an update to the Tech.Ed 2006 site and revealled some of our faces of...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/21/2006

What does Gnoos think is important?

I like meme trackers. The front page of Beta Gnoos today has some interest thought floating about...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/21/2006

TechTalkBlog's new Host Blogger gets the Vista Vibe

One lesser appeciated element of Tech Talk Blogs is the guest blogger section. We kicked it off back...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/21/2006

15 years at Microsoft

Today is the anniversary of when I started my career at Microsoft - 15 years! As I said last year,...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/19/2006

Sleet Geek 06

What is Rory proposing?? <subliminalAdvertising>Sleet Geek 06</subliminalAdversting> A...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/19/2006

Northern Beaches Career Expo

I spent the morning at thr Northern Beaches Career Expo held at Northern Beaches Indoor Sports...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/19/2006

I'm on Tailrank!!

I made it to the front page of Tailrank today w00t!! next stop : tech.memeorandum [ Currently...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/18/2006

TechTalk Blogs : +83 days

Time to check in on the health of TechTalkBlogs. It's been alive 83 days. Feb 24 was when I first...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/17/2006

Corporate Search Gets Serious : Windows Live Search

Annoucement overnight on regsarding Enterprise Search Solutions. Lot's of BUZZ around this...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/17/2006

Looking for a User Experience Evangelist (UxE) to join my team

The products are here : EGD, EID, EWD The job is posted I'm waiting for resumes now [ Currently...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/17/2006

WMP 11 : It Just Rocks

I grabbed the beta of Windows Media Player 11 last night and gave it a spin. It just looks...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/17/2006

Learn how to create classic arcade games using Express

Those wacky folks at Coding4Fun have really outdone themselves this time. They have kicked off a...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/16/2006

Software as a Service Seminar in Sydney

Software as a Service Seminar in Sydney - That's one mean piece of alliteration! Anyways, we are...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/16/2006

Come and grab Expression Web Designer CTP

w00t! We have released the first community technology preview (CTP) of Microsoft Expression Web...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/16/2006

Aussie words for Office 2007

Just spotted this poll on the Microsoft Australia home page What are the great Aussie Words For the...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/13/2006

Is Gnoos, Is Good

I scored an invite to the Beta version of Gnoos - an Aussie Blog Search engine, and one of the few...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/12/2006

Want to pitch an idea to Microsoft?

I've received a few unsolicited proposal over the past couple of weeks. Things like: I have a great...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/12/2006

SMH : Old computers harm office morale. Time to Upgrade

I saw this story in the SMH - Old computers harm office morale :. "Ageing and unreliable office...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/10/2006

Dirmap - Look at your PocketPC memory in a new way

I'm a sucker for a good treemap - I made one of my laptop in 2005, and again in 2006 Now, thanks to...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/10/2006

The back of my "new" Motion Computing LS800

Here's the back of my "new" Motion Computing LS800 I kept it on all night and it still works....

Author: frankarr Date: 05/10/2006

In 2 weeks the Global Corporate Challenge Begins!

My team and I have signed up for the Global Corporate Challenge. It started as a challenge from the...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/10/2006

The Wonders of CeBIT 2006

I spent most of the day out at CeBIT 2006 in Sydney. I bumped into a lot of old faces from the past,...

Author: frankarr Date: 05/10/2006

Self paced workshops online with downloadable source code

Richard Grimes sent me an email about a bunch of tutorials he has available on his site. I've had a...