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After a week getting used to life in the London office, I'm now in Mountain View for my orientation, and it appears I'm in very good company. I get the feeling this is going to be a very interesting job... Read More
posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:10 PM by pdbartlett | 53 Comments
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Stuff

A bunch of miscellaneous stuff: I don't recall who put me onto this, but I'm enjoying Jessica Hagy's amusing/insightful diagrams over at indexed I've been impressed by the WPF-based reader that Conchango have put together for the Daily Mail newspaper Read More
posted Monday, March 05, 2007 12:51 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Outlook 2003 calendar annoyance

I like my calendar in "work week" view, but when I press the "Calendar" button from a meeting request, Outlook does the following: Switches my calendar to "day" view Leaves it like thatThe first of these is just about defensible, as arguably it's easier Read More
posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:36 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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News, news and more news

Well, things have been a bit hectic for me over the past few weeks, so a few pieces of news have been building up: I've accepted a job with Google here in London, and unless there are any major disasters will be starting in mid-March I've finally got Read More
posted Sunday, February 18, 2007 7:29 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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SlickRun to Windows Desktop Search shortcut converter

As well as changing my 'blogging setup I've also switched from Google Desktop Search to WDS, for a trial period at least. As WDS has shortcuts it seemed like an opportunity to have one less process running by importing my SlickRun shortcuts. As I Read More
posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:47 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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A few helpful tools

Over the past few weeks I've come across a few things that have made my digital life easier (apologies for the lack of specific attributions, but I'm sure Mike Gunderloy and Scott Hanselman must feature somewhere): Firefox Extensions Read More
posted Friday, December 08, 2006 4:55 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Omea products now free

(Via Jason Haley)  These seemed pretty good when I looked at them some time back, but not good enough for me to part with any cash (not much comes into that category!). However, now they're free so I don't have to... http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/download/index.htm Read More
posted Friday, December 08, 2006 2:12 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Windows Live Writer test

I guess I have to question why I'm bothering to setup and test Live Writer when I've not posted in over a month, but it is new and shiny so hopefully the inner geek in all of you will understand and forgive me for wasting your time just this once ;) Now Read More
posted Monday, August 21, 2006 2:44 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Multiple homepages on Firefox

A neat little trick, courtesy of Scott Hanselman. Read More
posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:39 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Online presence

I recently got a visitor to this 'blog via my Orkut profile page (reminder to self: must start using Google Analytics now I've been accepted...), which got me thinking just how many "facets" I now have online: SiteType"My" link GeekDojo'Blog (main)Click Read More
posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:06 AM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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Missing .Text features back in CS 2.0

Looks like two of the features I'd missed from .Text, the overall referrers list and expanding keywords, are back in CS 2.0. The latter are somewhat confusingly renamed as "Text Parts", though.So without wishing to sound ungrateful, is an upgrade on the Read More
posted Friday, May 12, 2006 10:01 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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SWiK - the Open Software Wiki

A while back I mentioned MyProgs, which I described as "del.icio.us for software", but haven't really looked at much since. Now I've discovered SWiK which in addition to being a wiki has tagging support. Looks interesting... Read More
posted Monday, March 20, 2006 8:06 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Capability Im-Maturity Model (CIMM)

Saw this via EricGu (originally from The Daily WTF).If you read/skim/scroll right down to the bottom, though, the author is described thusly:Capt. Thomas M. Schorsch is a full-time doctorate student at The Air Force Institute of Technology at Read More
posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:19 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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New toy!

I just got a PSP (Giga pack; plus USB charging cable, padded slip case, TOCA2 and Tiger Woods '06), so I'm on the lookout for game, accessory and "tools" recommendations.All advice and tips most welcome... Read More
posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:31 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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PBWiki

When the site switched from .Text to Community Server I lost "keywords", which were key to implementing BartyBliki. However, all is not lost as the ever helpful Ryan pointed me at: which looks as if it will fill the gap admirably. For more details Read More
posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:10 AM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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