I just found this Microsoft KB article which is a very comprehensive list of what services use what ports. Anyone working with enterprise software solutions or Microsoft back end infrastructure sho...

Too much effort reading my ramblings ? Want to listen instead ? Now you can !! Courtesy of the excellent odiogo, the excellent text to speech service. This is a free service that bloggers can use,...

One of the things I find really helpful in terms of motivation (for running) is having easy visibility of weekly, monthly and total mileages, times, paces etc. So, a couple of weeks ago I bought ...

A while back I restructured my website so that this blog no longer started at the root, instead starting from /blog. This was so that I could introduce some other web apps and have a subfolder for ...

I was recording some audio earlier today and the quality from my cheap, generic headset/microphone was woeful., so I searched around for a service that I could make a telephone call into and it wou...

Now that I have moved us over to Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) completely, I have been fighting with Outlook to get a decent user / email experience. It just doesn’t seem to flow well – I go...

Just changed all my email / calendar stuff to Google Apps for Your Domain (GAYD). It was a breeze to do, took around an hour all in and now all email access is IMAP and Web. The reason I chose thi...

I have been playing with Twitter recently and thought it might be neat to see if I could post a ‘tweet’ from PowerShell. There is a great Google Group that discusses their API. The APIs are all RES...

I was listening to one of Scott Hanselman’s podcasts this morning and Scott made a comment about people thinking that agile methodologies were and excuse for sloppy project management (NOTE: Scott ...

It has been a real busy month at work and I’ve just not had a minute. One of the big things I see on the (technical) horizon is ‘federated search’ for the Enterprise. We already have this for the ...