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This week on AskOwen

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 12th Apr, 2008

Some interesting posts on AskOwen this week including:

How do I add a map to my website?
Where can I find .Net shopping cart software?
How do I list my Entrecard droppers?

The last one actually prompted me to write a new plugin which lets you display your latest EntreCard droppers quickly and easily on your blog. I like [...]

Where to go on holiday?

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 8th Apr, 2008

Well, that time of year is upon us. You know, the time where you realise you have a bunch of holidays saved up, but haven’t actually decided where you want to go. We were originally planning to go on a cruise this year, but yesterday were discussing how next year is our 10 year anniversary, [...]

Some linklove for Greymatter commentors

Posted by: Owen on Sunday, 6th Apr, 2008

Just thought I’d take a page out of Sherrilynne’s book and acknowledge some of the kind folk who took the time to comment on this blog. I believe that blogging is all about initiating a conversation and if noone reads or comments on my posts, I find it changes the flavour of what I’m doing. [...]

This week on AskOwen..

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 28th Mar, 2008

Here’s a recap of some of the recent posts on AskOwen, a blog where I answer questions on technical issues that friends (and strangers) ask me from time to time:

How can I let my readers know of a new post by email?
How do I add something to my website so users can bookmark [...]

This week on AskOwen..

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 22nd Feb, 2008

Some questions answered this week on AskOwen:

How can I recognise User Generated Spam?
How can I change the way posts are displayed on IP.Board?
How do I copy a file using BizTalk server?

Got a question? Ask it here.

USB Everything

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 9th Oct, 2007

Excellent post by Computrout on Lockgnome that I just had to share:
I was just going through a catalog, and it never ceases to amaze me what USB junk/toys are out there. What a waste of power, money, and time. Still fun to look at. Take a look at some of this junk I quickly found. [...]

101 Conversion Utilities

Posted by: Owen on Monday, 10th Sep, 2007

The other day I had a frustrating situation where someone sent me an email with a .r file attached. I had no idea what this was and none of the applications I had installed would recognise it. It turned out to be a “resource” file which was pretty specific, but it did raise the issue [...]

Microsoft New Technologies

Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 28th Jul, 2007

I popped by Andy James’ blog today (it has been ages since I’ve been there) and picked up some good links to some new stuff hitting the street (Andy is good like that). Here’s some honey:

BizTalk Architects group on FaceBook
BizTalk HotRod Magazine Issue 2
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
BizTalk Labs
Pub/Sub with low latency

Thanks Andy, loads to [...]

Outlook 2007 Signature

Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 11th Apr, 2007

Office 2007 has some nice features, it really does. However there are some things missing (or maybe I just haven’t found where they are). One of these is the ability to edit your Outlook signature in an external editor. I was bemoaning this fact when I came across a post on ComputerZen that explain exactly what I [...]

Promote your blog

Posted by: Owen on Friday, 23rd Mar, 2007

One way to get your blog noticed is to have a popular blog link to yours. And this is what Andy Beal is offering on his latest post on the Marketing Pilgrim. He’s looking for new blogs to read and asking for people to give him a link to their RSS feed. He will subscribe [...]

Becoming a US citizen?

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 22nd Mar, 2007

There was a time when I was trying to get some work in the US and had actually gone as far as to get an H1b Visa. I never actually made it there, but if I had one thing I would have been looking at was how to Apply for US Citizenship Online. It is [...]

BCS: Business benefits of VOIP - Synopsis

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 22nd Mar, 2007

I just got back from the BCS talk on business benefits of VOIP. It was a pretty good talk outlining some of the benefits, challenges and issues of implementing a VOIP project in Government. The talk was much broader than that, talking about the change in culture that was necessary for this to happen and [...]

BCS: Business benefits of VOIP

Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 13th Mar, 2007

I’m on the committee for the local chapter of the BCS and am responsible for sorting out out local events and speakers. Our next talk is on VOIP and is called “Business benefits of VOIP”. Here’s the blurb:
VOIP has brought about a massive change in the way telephony is used in business. It delivers the [...]

Studying Abroad

Posted by: Owen on Monday, 12th Mar, 2007

Some of you may not know this about me, but when I was at University I spent 9 months on a student exchange in Australia. This was back in the days where the Internet was mainly used for email and Mosaic was all the rage. I remember those days fondly, but I also remember how [...]

SETI@Home finds something

Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 22nd Feb, 2007

For all of you running SETI@Home you’ll be pleased to know that they have finally found something! It’s not extraterretrial life unfortunately, but it’s been used successfully to trace a stolen laptop.
Apparently one techie in the US was running Seti@Home on 8 machines at home, one of which was stolen. When the application contacted SETI@Home [...]