the case against .NET

thecaseagainst.net has, at last, been upgraded to WordPress 2.5, having previously languished on the 2.0 branch for far too long. Thanks to a great short guide from Word Press this was a quick and easy process. Let me know if you spot any problems.
Now I need to find a new theme to freshen [...]

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OK, I know I’ve gone quiet again. This isn’t particularly due to a shortage of things to blog about - it’s more to do with the hassle of creating blog entries.
In an attempt to counter this, I’m now trying out ScribeFire as a blogging tool - “Post to your blog without ever leaving Firefox”. [...]

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Spent the day at this Carson Workshops Summit, along with four colleagues from Eurotherm.
With high profile speakers such as Joshua Schachter from del.icio.us, David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails fame and others, this was always going to be a worthwhile event. For an excellent account, see Jeremy Keith’s blog entries (starting here). Jeremy’s [...]

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Wednesday last I attended my first Sussex Geek Dinner. I’ll never be a proper blogger, because it’s taken me four days to record the fact. Simon, on the other hand, knows how this stuff is meant to work: he went home and updated his blog within about an hour of us vacating [...]

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Been a bit quiet lately, due to a recent vacation. In fact, my previous 3 posts were queued up prior to my departure, as my colleague Adrian correctly deduced.
Anyway, I was chatting with my manager the other day when he made an analogy which was so obvious I was amazed I’d not come across [...]

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Elliotte Rusty Harold grumbles about RSS aggregators offering a poorer user experience than web pages. I have to agree.
I completely love Bloglines, and spend way more time there than any other site. However, there’s no substitute for actually visiting your favourite feeds’ HTML web pages once in a while. In the same way [...]

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First off, I’m a big fan of Robert Scoble. His blog has a high signal-to-noise ratio, and he’s generally very readable. Above all, the fact that Microsoft allows/encourages him to blog has been largely responsible for the much more positive perception of Microsoft now held by many people.
However, someone needs to take issue with [...]

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The blogosphere is going wild with the news that Boeing invited a bunch of bloggers to try out its “new” onboard wireless Internet access service. See, for example:

Scobleizer: Boeing Blogging

buzznovation: Blogging the Stratosphere..part II…Connexion rocks…

Let’s be clear that Boeing’s service is not new: several airlines have been offering this for many months.
You may have noticed [...]

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