Just checked this out.   http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/

It's kinda cool, seem's as though Microsoft's advertising "guru's" are at their best again, trying to dispel the notion that Vista is crap.

The site shows some nice reaction video's of people who are first told to rate Vista based on what they have heard, then are given a "Mojave" OS and told to rate it (they all gave it a 10). Then the twist, the "Mojave" is revealed to be Vista to great dramatic effect.

Still does not convince me to finally take up Vista though.

Posted in Uncategorized at July 31st, 2008. No Comments.

http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/stevecla01/WindowsLiveWriter/TheCloudsAreClearing_AA/fam081_2.jpg

The Microsoft Cloud Offering- a slide from Steve Balmer's presentation. This begins to paint a good picture of where Microsoft see themselves in the new Cloud/*aaS market.

More on this later.

see also: Steve Clayton's blog here.

also here as well.

Posted in microsoft, software at July 31st, 2008. 1 Comment.

I really wish wordpress would support proper microblogging. Not like twitter or it's clones.

Posted in blogging, software at July 24th, 2008. 1 Comment.

Just started using Windows Live Writer, and I must say it's a pretty awesome tool. Probably the best blogging tool out there, especially if you are not on a mac.

Here is the pop-shot of it loading...

It does: WYSIWYG Authoring, Photo Publishing, Map Publishing and you can publish to: Typepad, Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal and more... Pretty cool stuff.

You can get yours here.

Posted in blogging, software at July 11th, 2008. No Comments.

I recently signed up to be at the cloudcamp this year, it looks like it's going to be an enjoyable open-style conference (bar-camp style).

The confirmed sessions are:

  • "I'm a bank, why should I run my grid in the cloud?" - Adam Vile, Excelian (http://www.excelian.com)
  • "Gang up now before the *aaS cloud gets you" - Simon Wardley, Gardeviance (http://www.gardeviance.org)
  • "Portability beats interoperability - how to be on two clouds at once" - Alexis Richardson, CohesiveFT (http://www.cohesiveft.com)
  • "The missing link in on-demand scaling in the cloud" - Dekel Tankel, Gigaspaces (http://www.gigaspaces.com)
  • "How clouds can and will differ" - Richard Davies, ElasticHosts (http://www.elastichosts.com)
  • "Partly Cloudy" - William Fellows, The 451 Group (http://www.the451group.com)
  • "Start-ups in the cloud" - Adil Mohammed, EnTrip.com (http://www.entrip.com/)
  • "Pick'n'Mix: Bridging the clouds" - Alan Williamson (http://alan.blog-city.com/about.htm), MediaFed

(c) - cloudcamp

For your calendar:

July 16th, 6.30pm to 8.00pm (Party afterward)
The Crypt on the Green
St James Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell Close
London
EC1R 0EA

The webpage is at: london.cloudcamp.com

Posted in grid, seminars at July 10th, 2008. No Comments.

So, I ran away from all my former blogs and have Unified all my houses. I intend to put up content in the different sections, so you can follow each section instead of haveing 3 different blogs.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lawrence.

Posted in Uncategorized at July 9th, 2008. 1 Comment.