Wednesday, April 16, 2008
3 Geeks in an Elevator
Lots of things can happen in an elevator when you’re stuck in there for some time. Bil Simser had started this Internet meme experiment and I thought I would participate!
If I were to be stuck in an elevator with two other (living) geeks, they’d have to be Heather Solomon and Natalya Voskresenskaya. It would be really nice. We’d talk about SP , design and life.
Being locked up in an elevator with two geeks, who would they be? what would you talk about?
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
MOSS Obsession
Finally upgraded my Tiger to Leopard. I have been postponing the whole thing for quite a while now. Now that I’ve installed BootCamp, I have partitioned the drive and installed Vista Ultimate as well. Updated the whole thing down to SP1 and started to install Office and everything else.So far everything is great. Can’t wait to get MOSS installed. Meanwhile, I’ve been playing around a bit and here are a couple of t-shirts I’d like to print!
Got Milk? I mean Farm?
This one is inspired by NOS logo.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Bahrain Air, SharePoint and E-Gate!
The past few days have been really awesome. I was able to attend the first Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Dubai. (link: http://www.sharepointconferencedubai.com )
I bought my tickets online from Bahrain Air since it was the earliest flight available. Arrival would be 9.20am and the conference starts at 9am. The good news was that it takes place at Al-Bustan Rotana Hotel - just five minutes away from the airport. The booking process was very similar to Jazeera Airways, except that you don’t get to choose your seat on the flight.
This was my first time on Bahrain Air. The plane was small and packed with people. Once we landed, I decided that Jazeera was way better in comparison! First, Dua’a elSafar (travel supplication) was announced on speaker so fast by some attendant’s voice and I couldn’t follow up! Then, after the plane took off, TV screens were all up and running shows like “Just kidding” followed by an Arabic comedy. But that wasn’t the problem at all, they had the audio playing on speaker, so no one could get any rest if they’d wanted to. The plane had a weird smell to it, and it wasn’t because it was packed. I was glad I had the conference to look forward to, so I just tried to be patient. Yes, water was served - in the smallest plastic cups possible. Other than that, everything was good.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000
A few days ago, I received my Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 and its by far my favorite toy! I feel like Harry Potter and his Nimbus 2000 Firebolt right now.
Its a bluetooth wireless mouse on one side and if you flip it over, it becomes your presentation remote control. For a long time, I would use my dad’s Logitech cordless presenter which I had enjoyed endlessly. All it had was a trackball and 3 buttons. Years have passed and technology always amazes us with newer features that make our lives much easier and enjoyable.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Lovely Charts
I have previously blogged about Smart Draw, and today - after testing it for over a few weeks I decided to share my thoughts on Lovely Charts. It is an online free diagramming service that allows you to create flowcharts, site maps, organization maps, wire frames and network diagrams. I have always wished there was an online version of Smart Draw and I must say, Lovely Charts is looking good and almost ready to be the next big thing in diagramming.
The service is completely free but a premium membership will soon be available at a very low rate. I would love to see it available for multi-user collaboration projects but that is still in the making. Once you have completed your diagram, you can publish it for the public to see or keep it in your account for your own reference. Charts and diagrams can be exported in Image format.
I believe this is an excellent service and look forward to seeing more of its upcoming features! It’s exciting to see all these services available on the Internet. One day, I believe, we will not have any softwares installed on our machines because it will all be available online!
service website: http://lovelycharts.com
Whats your favorite online application? Or what non-existing online application would you love to see?
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Microsoft Heroes Happens {Here} - Bahrain
Microsoft has been touring the Gulf region to show off and launch the new Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. On March 17, the launch kicked off in Bahrain at the Gulf Hotel Convention Center. It was great!
The program begins with the keynote, where Joseph Landes, the Director of Marketing from Redmond introduced, with great sense of humor, whats new and whats happening. He also went over who this new technology is already in use worldwide and even in Bahrain - by Batelco.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
improv everywhere!
I have been following up with what these guys have been up to for quite some time and they blow me away with their innovative ideas every single time! The idea was first brought by an American comedian, Charlie Todd, who now teaches and performs long-form improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. In his “spare time” he enjoys organizing tongue-in-cheek “missions” all over New York. Missions such as the hilarious “Red-heads Protest at Wendy’s”, the amazing “Frozen Grand Central”, and their latest: “Mobile Desktops”. I have no idea how they can do that and still keep a straight face! It really requires skill!
Recently, I read at their blog that they have gone international - so I cant wait to see something like this in Kuwait! I also found out that they were the guys behind the “Windws of a Manhattan building” project! My favorite is the Frozen Grand Central mission. Inspired by it, a similarly successful “freeze” experiment was also done in Berlin; the Berlin Alexa Freeze project.
I have also enjoyed the creativity in the experiment done in Dubai, also known as “Go Around Twice If You’re Happy” by writers/directors Vincent Fichard and Matthew Jones.
Would you participate in such “mission”?
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