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Today we went to Cambridge University to a GIS conference.  Cambridge is pretty cool..didn’t get a chance to take any pics.  Lots of really old buildings etc.  We were in the conference hall and got to check out and hear … Continued

So we’re in Shrewsbury for a few days.  We’re staying at the Prince Rupert Hotel which is a really old building…like older than anything at home.  Lots of little corridors that lead off here and there.  Ceiling has MASSIVE beams..pretty … Continued

So our plane to UK was a lot more modern..we had our own tv..yay.  Somehow we managed to get 1 of about 4 full rows on the whole plane and the guy next to me wasn’t short either so none … Continued

So we’re at the airport in Japan..there’s bugger all to do here..there’s only 1 duty free shop with electronic goods and all the rest is perfume and alcohol.. Looks like we get outt here before the typhoon .. which i … Continued

Sat 14 July – So today we’re off to Japan.  We get up ridicuoulsy early and off to the airport.  The silver service taxi picked up up and almost blew his gearbox up going up the hill…could’ve been a bad … Continued

Details for our Tech.Ed session are up here. WEB302 – Mastering Virtual Earth 10/08/2007 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM Speaker(s): John Obrien, Bronwen Zande Want to add interactive maps to your applications or just learn more about this exciting technology? … Continued

I bought a JasJam earlier in the year…it had some problems and I got a new one.  When they took my phone away from me i wasn’t given anytime to delete anything as I was told it didn’t matter as … Continued

I was looking into some tiling issues today and noticed this car laying down some serious tracks next to one of the most famous landmarks in the world! Link Well maybe it shouldn’t have been driving there, need that CSI … Continued

We’ve turned 200 .   Since the 6th August 2006 we’ve now done 200 blog posts.  Should’ve counted my posts on Tech Talk Blogs..oh well.  We kinda cheated cause there’s 2 of us blogging…but hey…still a milestone. So to mark our 200th blog … Continued

So we’re off to the UK on Saturday for a few weeks…so tune in here for our adventures related to the trip .. and wonderful pictures of course . We’re taking both lappies and all my camera gear so will … Continued

I went to write a blog entry to day..only to get a “Edit is unavailble in this Module Error”!!!  As you can see we’ve fixed the problem..yay! I found the solution HERE (thanks so much) but basically: Problem..Curly quotes instead … Continued

John showed me an article on the MY08 WRX and boy have they killed it…it looks like a focus with a bonnet scoop.  It seriously looks like a chick’s car but with a turbo engine. Wonder if their sales will … Continued

Been really sick since Remix…so haven’t blogged much.  The other day the live team released the new version of the contacts control..you can now change it’s colours to suit your colour preference or to better fit in with your site design … Continued

Frank put out the hints yesterday about the latest group of guest editors for Tech Talk Blogs.  Today he announced that 3 ladies will be the latest guest editors and I’m one of them. Our topic is Tech.Ed Should be … Continued

I’ve just finished the ordeal of dealing with a non-paying client.  So what can you do about it?  Really there’s not a lot.  Call, email, send letters asking for payment or explaination.  This only seems to do any good if … Continued

Here’s some pics from Neil’s Mashup Windows Live Services session at Remix.  John crashed the session to present the 10 minute map with some Melbourne content.  

Found a picture of our tshirts on Delicate Genius Flickr pics:  

Well we made it home.  We’re back from the first Remix Australia.  It was good to catch up with some people and to meet people we talk to or subscribe to their blogs for real. We flew in on Sat … Continued

We’ll be offline a few days as we fly down to Melbourne to goto remix. We had some t-shirts made so keep an eye out for us. John will be participating in WebJam on Monday night. See you all there… 

Was trying out the live contact api and was getting a “can’t share information” error on the last confirmation page of the authentication process: Not the friendliest error.  My problem was i was running from local host.  I added an … Continued

Thanks to Chuck, John’s webcast on building a vista gadget is now on 9 MSDN site.

Like the rest of Brisbane (maybe even Queensland) we were issued with our 4 minute shower timer in an effort to get all households to use a maximum of 140L of water per person a day. This is all well … Continued

We published today the third installment in the clustering articles for Virtual Earth. This time we focus on the client side, updating our javascript to support the latest Version 5 of Virtual Earth. Clustering Virtual Earth on Version 5 We … Continued

 It’s just been confirmed today that we’re presenting at Tech Ed at the Gold Coast. Here’s our brief of what we are intending to do: Mastering Virtual Earth John O’Brien MVP Bronwen Zande   Want to add interactive maps to … Continued

After i got my 500 lego blocks i was wondering what to build.  As they are squishy and not as perfect as real lego building solid walls was pretty much out.  After consultation and help from an engineer, we’ve built … Continued

Checkout the Microsoft interview with John on his Traffic Camera Gadget.  Read the interview here.

I made a video that shows how I put together the QLD traffic gadget and how you can learn from it and build your own. Video: Building a Traffic Gadget for Vista Sidebar Let me know what you think.

1 year ago today I left the safety and security of full time, working for someone else employment, and joined John working for Soul Solutions. I have really enjoyed it so far.  Even though you essentially work for someone else … Continued

So when your little sister wants a lappy…what do you tell her to buy?  A mini-me pc of course.  I have the 9400 dell…now my sisterRenee has the 6400..a mini version of mine.

Ok…everyone’s doing the LOLCat…I don’t have a cat…so I did a LOLMonkey instead.