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Stroke UX, Synthetic Life and BMW: Geometry and Functions In N Adaptions

Three videos that made me think: How it feels to have a stroke (TED Talks) Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 06-19-2008
Sync Google Calendar with Outlook and more with WideLens

Google has just released a very cool utility (.exe download for Windows) providing users with the ability to synchronize their Google Calendar with Outlook. Some nice features in their 0.9.3.0 release: schedule the sync frequency: every x minutes define directional flow: 2-way, and 1-way (either way...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-05-2008
The Xbox 360 Elite laptop

This just has to be the sweetest hack I've seen in a while.

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-04-2008
Microsoft conf call - the jig

I suspect this video has done the rounds inside Microsoft (it's a year old, but I haven't seen it before). Background: this is the same conf call service Microsoft uses. In my five years I spent way too much listening to the very same track. Ah, memories. Thanks to Sean Alexander for the link .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-02-2008
BillG - last full day at Microsoft has come and gone...

The chances are you've already seen the video below - "Bill Gates Last Day at Microsoft". If not, it's worth a watch. I was still at Microsoft when Mr G announced his retirement and was present at his announcement to employees in Redmond. It felt like a big deal at the time... to misquote Vinnie Jones...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-17-2008
I don't know why, but this cracked me up.

I don't know why, but this cracked me up.

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-07-2007
The Banality of Social Networking

There is a fine line between extracting the potential goodness of social networking and drowning in its banality. This video by J.W Sass portrays the misery of the latter. via Brian Johnson .

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-05-2007
E-Learning 2.0

What happens to education, learning processes and knowledge sharing when you combine learning objects , MUDs , RSS , podcasting , tagging , social networking , social media , network effects , AJAX, REST , web APIs , interoperable ID systems and open courseware ? Answer: a lot... In this video recording...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-04-2007
Interview with Peter Spiro - Building Great Databases

This is great video from Channel 9 - an interview with Peter Spiro , a Technical Fellow and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. It's probably an understatement to describe Peter's career path as "unconventional", a path that lead to him eventually to accept a role at Microsoft in 1994 within the database...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-11-2007
Microsoft Research TechFest

Duncan Mackenzie (on the Channel 9 team), provides a pointer to the first of a number of video interviews by Rory Blythe with some MSR folk covering the Microsoft TechFest event happening this week at the Redmond Campus: "Every year at Microsoft there is a little internal-only conference where Microsoft...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-06-2007

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