Monthly Archives: April 2008

What is better then a few images and links of the new Birdseye for Australia? How about a 5min video exploring some of the cool new images in 3D! Click to start the video (Requires Silverlight)

Blogging has been a bit light on this month. As you may have noticed we spent a lot of time travelling this month.  We discovered it takes as long to get from Brisbane to Montreal as it does to get … Continued

Its been a long time comming for us down under but today four major cities have been given the Virtual Earth Birdseye treatment. Click on the links to be taken to map.live.com and check them out in detail: Sydney Opera … Continued

Yesterday I drove Bronwen crazy by trying to perfect a 270degree panarama of a lake about 30min from our lodge. Its 106 MegaPixels when cropped. Best results where using F18 on a tripod but still had focus and whitebalance inconsistancy. … Continued

Today we grabbed our hire car…we upgraded to a bigger car to get the Sat Nav and it’s definatly worth it! Spent the morning in more meetings at Microsoft before heading over to Bellvue to grab John some Bose Noice … Continued

Today was the last day of the summit.  The last session was the locknote with Steve Ballmer. The guy is truly amazing..so much energy! The MVPs got to ask questions/give feedback.  Steve was there writing notes and answering each question. I … Continued

One of the “big things” about going to Microsoft Campus is the chance to visit the company store.  Here you have access to very cheap software/hardware aswell as an array of microsoft branded swag. We popped in about 5pm on … Continued

First day of sessions.  Was really good to put some faces to names after many msn conversations and emails. After the Product Group party, Angus was nice enough to take us to play with a Surface.  About 6 of us … Continued

Well we made it onto the flight to Toronto, and 6 hrs later we’re in Seattle.  The best news is our bags have beaten us (probably made the plane they kicked us off of) and we can grab them and … Continued

This example comes from Steve Lombardi’s blog post last year and has been updated to the latest version of Virtual Earth at the time of writing. The code and collection was presented at the Museums and the Web conference in … Continued

After the nightmare of yesterday..this is how we’re fairing…we got up really early and headed over to Air Canada to try and get out of Chicago. We were prepared to split up if it meant at least one of us … Continued

So after a long day of running around in circles we’re completely stranded in Chicago, with no way to get to Seattle for the Summit tomorrow.  So now you’ve got the headline you can choose whether or not to hear … Continued

Today I battled the cold and did a photo walking tour.  Essentially, you wander around with a photographer and take photos. It was interesting, mainly because I took photos that I would never have thought to take before. It was … Continued

From 9 photos using Windows Live Photo Gallery I made this Panorama from our walk on Tuesday. http://deepzoom.soulclients.com/montreal/ At 19,300×2200 pixels deep zoom is the best way to navigate the 20MB image.

Had the day to myself on thrusday as John was at the conference. Had every intention to do something…then the room got ridiculously cold, so I decided I was too much of a wuss to bear the cold by myself … Continued

Today was the start of the Museums and Web Conference.  So we wandered down to the Hilton to host a half day workshop on Virtual Earth. I think we could easily have made it a full day workshop as we … Continued

Today we set off to walk up Mount Royal which the locals seem to call a bump.  It gives a great view of the city so we took some panorama shots and some zoomed in versions and will put up … Continued

Today we did the tourist thing and checked out a few places.  Our first adventure was to catch the Metro to Olympic Stadium.  So we paid our money and went up the inclining tower to check out the awesome view … Continued

Bit of a delayed post..but we haven’t had internet connection… We got up nice and early to set off on our long journey to Montreal.  The plane to LA had about 40 seats free but we didn’t get a spare … Continued

How far will I go for a good meal?  Next week I’m at the Montreal Girl Geek Dinner..that’s how far! It’s my first Girl Geek Dinner and i have to leave the country to get to one 🙂 While we’re in … Continued

Had one of those “moments” this morning where I opened up myVS2008 tfs project only to get the following message: The solution you have opened is under source control but not currently configured for integrated source control in Visual Studio. … Continued

We’re heading off to Montreal this weekend, to attend the Museums and Web Conference.  John has been going for a few years now, usually presenting on content managment, but this year he’s presenting a paper: Using the Microsoft Virtual Earth … Continued

It has gone in a blur but it was exactly one year ago I was awarded an MVP for my community service to Windows Live Developers. Always fun to be awarded on April Fools Day. The name has changed, I’m … Continued