Steve Clayton
“THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT.” - Peter Drucker
Phone humour
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/13/2009
Web service paperbacks
Hot on the heels of Albums re-imagined as Penguin Classics I love these retro Vintage Web Service...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/13/2009
Great Quotes #22
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/13/2009
Hermes installation
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/11/2009
Geek humour
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/11/2009
Microsoft acquires Opalis
We just announced we’ve acquired Opalis Software, a Toronto-based private company that is a leader...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/11/2009
Windows Azure platform dashboard is live
I think this just went live in the last few days/hours – a dashboard showing current and past status...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/10/2009
Windows Azure means business
At the Professional Developers Conference last month, Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia made a series of...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/10/2009
Bing Favourites #6
I saw a programme on the TV recently that showed this island so amazingly I immediately recognised...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/10/2009
Five rules for PowerPoint
This is a nice find by Long Zheng via the PowerPoint team blog. Nancy Duarte and Duarte Design are...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/10/2009
Smart design
I love smart design like this. A traffic light with a countdown timer built in. I can hear the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/09/2009
Ego surfing with Microsoft’s EntityCube
I just finished having a play with Microsoft Research’s EntityCube which proved to be quite a bit of...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/09/2009
Using the Royal Albert Hall as a measure
An unusual way to measure stuff…which is exactly why I like it. via the smarty pants peeps at...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/08/2009
The year of technology invention
Another variant of the Did You Know video. hat tip to Mel tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/08/2009
The Vaio X has landed…at chez Clayton
Yep, I bit the bullet and laid down my own cash on a laptop for the first time in…well, a long time....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/07/2009
MoreNewMath
A few of my favourites from this brilliant site. tweetmeme_url =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/06/2009
Who switched the Internet off?
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/05/2009
Albums re-imagined as Penguin Classics
A brilliant slideshow from Wired - Cover versions: albums re-imagined as Penguin Classics. This is...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/04/2009
Azure gets an ERP app
I think it’s great to see such full fledged solutions already out there on Azure. It sounds like...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/04/2009
Journey of a Tweet
via https://www.ngonlinenews.com – kind of annoying (for me) that they say “indexed by Google” and...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/03/2009
Twitter maps on Bing
Okay, my final Bing post for tonight. The best feature (for me) until last….Bing Map Apps. Go to...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/02/2009
Bing for mobile
A busy day for Bing. Bing for mobile got released…for Windows phone, Blackberry & Sidekick. I...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/02/2009
Wow….new Bing maps
This morning (PST time), Satya Nadella and team announced a whole load of new Bing maps capability....
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/02/2009
Ruby On Rails on Windows Azure
At the PDC Matt Mullenweg of Automattic talked about the open source support on Windows Azure – you...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/02/2009
12
That’s how many years I have been at Microsoft as of today. Wow, it flew by…I earned...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 12/01/2009
The promise of Natural User Interface - NUI
You’re familiar with GUI even if you don’t know it – it’s the type of user interface you use...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/30/2009
Microsoft Executives in Pivot
A very cool little project from the folks at LiveSide.net has turned the Microsoft executive roster...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/30/2009
Bugaboo and Windows 7
I was checking out some Windows 7 case studies this morning and noticed Bugaboo International has...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/30/2009
Absolut Energy
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/29/2009
Great Quotes #21
"You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails." - Yiddish proverb...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/29/2009
My last year in Twitter
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/29/2009
Christmas wish list has started
I’ll start my Christmas Wish List posts this year with something a little unusual – salt. "Soso...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/28/2009
If Pacman were on Twitter…
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Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/28/2009
Impatient Optimists: Bill and Melinda Gates
This doesn’t really need an introduction. it starts with some good humour in the intro from BillG...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/27/2009
30 Days to Better Business Writing
The excellent Matthew Stibbe has published an excellent FREE eBook titled 30 Days to Better Business...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/27/2009
Lego Matrix
Brilliant. Falls in to the category of “too much time on their hands” but frankly, if more...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/27/2009
Windows and Toshiba do fast wake-up
Diana demanded a laptop with faster wake-up. Windows and Toshiba told Diana, “We’ll build it. You...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/26/2009
Royal Mail heading to the cloud with Microsoft
Postman Pat is heading to the cloud! Okay I’m sure the Royal Mail is tired of the cartoon...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/26/2009
I won at the IT Blog Awards 2009
Wow….2 years in a row!! I was very pleased to collect the winners award and bottle of...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/26/2009
Optimal Workloads for the cloud
This is one of my favourite slides from the PDC last week – it comes from the session titled Windows...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/26/2009
Black Friday at the Microsoft Store
This whole Black Friday thing is a curiosity for us international folks but over in the US of A, the...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/25/2009
Bing Maps & user intent
Bing Maps is getting better and better for me. I just did a quick search for Taplow as I’m planning...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/25/2009
Pleo is back
Good to see me old mucker Pleo is back in action after a near death experience. Order online at...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/25/2009
Azure helps Europe to manage environmental change
Last week at PDC the European Environment Agency announced their latest iteration of their Eye On...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/24/2009
PDC 2009 review
The dust has settled on the PDC 2009 and unlike previous events where I have tried to blog at...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/24/2009
Dilbert on Twitter
Dilbert has been riffing on cloud a bit last week. This week we move to Twitter :) tweetmeme_source...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/24/2009
Wheels of life
Somewhere between 3, 4 and 5 but well on my way to 8 :) via Reflectionof.me tweetmeme_source =...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/23/2009
Learn Something New Every Day
Learn Something New Every Day - I love this website – fun and educational at the same...
Author: stevecla01 Date: 11/22/2009