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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.  

Today I received my 500 lego stress toys.  Lots of people asked how big the box was going to be and how were they going to be packed.  Boxes – well they are a lot smaller than you first expect … Continued

I was seeing how easy it would be to create a Live Messenger Activity and turned out to be pretty simple to do your own test if you know how to find the menu. 1. Take the xml file example … Continued

You would not believe my surprise when after spending the whole of Sunday building my first gadget for the QLD vista competition someone had beat me to it! Well, mine maybe the 2nd but it has some great features and … Continued

Today I thought I’d have a play with the Windows Live Alerts service.  Thought the easiest way was to try the RSS no deployment solution.  It’s pretty damn simple to use… 1. Register you feed here 2. Post some html onto … Continued

I was surfing on graysonline yesterday and came across an auction for boxes of 250 stress builing block (like lego).  I saw these at Tech Ed last year and they are pretty cool as you can build stuff out of … Continued

While working on my migration to Version 5 of Virtual Earth I side track to look at the new method to customise the info box (pin popup) and find 2 showstopping issues. View the article here.

I got access to the alpha of popfly today and have been dragging and dropping mashups together all morning. This is simply hooking up the rss feed from Bronwens best of thailiand photos to a photo sphere control   The … Continued

Well it seems that 4 is the number of 2007.  For those who’ve seen my IM tags for the last few months.  We ordered a new bed from Forty Winks 4 months ago!  Today, after having 3 broken beds delivered, our 4th … Continued

Always hate trying to park in town and today remembered why.  Had a meeting at 10:30 in town today…thought getting there at 10:10 would give me heaps of time to find a park… I drive round a few streets and … Continued