Alex Barnett blog

Good to see Conor O'Neill is pretty excited with the realization that this Event plugin enables WIndows Live Writer to publish hCalendar formatted events. hCalendar is one of the microformats."Create your own events or find existing events through intergrated search of the Eventful.com website. Format the event, add a picture, ...

Chris, Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate the fact that you are moving this concept along and doing so from an implementation perspective. That's valuable, no doubt. One thought I have on this is that I'm not sure what level of agreement you'll want to achieve with the standard *without* getting to the point of having at least two ...

On APML, I tend to agree with what Stowe has said on the topic and John Tropea has some good thoughts too. To Marjolein - frankly, I'm getting tired of the attention conversation. Not because I believe it is not worthy idea, but because there's been so much talk in this area and not enough action. Given my ...

I'm off the City of Sin. What I lose there, stays there. Back Sunday.

I took the plunge over the weekend and clean installed Vista RC1 and Office 12 (2007 Office). All working sweet, except for SyncToy (latest version is 1.2) which doesn't run on Vista. I found this post by Ed Bott, citing a comment left by the SyncToy program manager at Microsoft on one of Ed's previous posts, ...

(OK, I'll give myself a 0.1 out of 10 for quality of this post title.) Zune will be out November 14 2006, according to this press release. This is the US date - I've not seen other info re: other markets. I noticed that one of the pre-loaded music videos will be BT's “1.618”. I'm so into this new album 'This ...

Stewart... Belgium is a small country. When do you think they will have 'total', always on connectivity. And will they need to remove large slabs of concrete to get everywhere humans do? Nother thought...most of top 20 countries in terms of population fall into the 'large country' category in terms of sq foot...these countries hold 70% (4.5bn) ...

...which would be a lot of flops.

Ryan Stewart and Richard MacManus are discussing the merits of a browser-only services and development strategy verses an online+offline approach. They are both kind of right in my view, but it all depends on the experience and the nature of the service you want to deliver. Never mind the 'richness' side of things for the moment ...