If the recent MojaveExperiment site hasn't crossed your browser yet then take a look, at least to get a feel of the stance Microsoft is taking on Vista now; effectively it's ready, it's great, let's get using it.  Oh, and by the way, if you haven't used/seen/experienced it, reserve judgement until you have, especially now that SP1 is flowing nicely.

Let us be gracious about the difficulties and not forget the compatibility issues that were first there on release.  I'm in agreement with the direction; I've been using Vista for a couple of years now in various forms and couldn't go back to XP, I'm not going to turn this into marketing and give a list of the features I'd miss too badly but they're all there (happy to expand if required).  However, if, as is always possible when exuberance overtakes the marketing message, we treat all who decry Vista as 'flat-earthers' we are in danger of being accused of ignorance. This is why I like the stance of the 'experiment'; explicitly talking to those people who haven't used it. 

So, Mojave away to your hearts content and spread the word.

If you were going to put on an event to talk about the next generation web and how Microsoft can help you deliver it – specifically for developers and designers, who would you invite to speak?

· How about one of the world’s leading user interaction researchers and authors – someone that has been awarded for Lifetime Achievement by ACM SIGCHI for fundamental contributions to the field of Computer Human Interaction and many other amazing accolades.

· What about a designer who has helped forge the way we look at brands like Diesel, BBC, Channel 4, Disney, Benetton, Kellogg's and Coca-Cola?

· How about the person who invented ASP.NET and who runs the team that writes Silverlight and makes Visual Studio and .NET a reality?

· How about the person who had the number one requested session at Tech.Ed developer US or one of the highest rated speakers at Tech.Ed developer in Barcelona?

· How about the creative director at moo.com, or the program manager for IE8, a leading speaker on accessibility standards...

No, how about ALL OF THEM? That’s the profile of just some of the speakers at our very own ReMix UK 08 event taking place on 18/19^th September in Brighton.  You can read about the speakers on the event website.

ReMix is a two day event at the Brighton centre, literally just across the road from the beach.  As well as an amazing speaker line-up, the venue will transformed in to our own modern city using inflatable structures and wall projection...

So, go and visit the event website http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/ and recommend the event to the people who you want to be impressed.

P.S.  in order of reference, those speakers are: Bill Buxton, Brendan Dawes, Scott Guthrie, Mike Taulty, Denise Wilton, Travis Leithead, Julie Howell 

So this is something that I've been looking out for - sample SharePoint web parts using Silverlight, with more to come.

I'm putting together a couple of Silverlight posts but thought I'd get in that the ReMix UK 08 Early Bird Offer (£239 instead of £349) is progressing well.  We can only do this for the first 300 tickets so now's the chance to save yourself the price of a couple of skinny lattes.

After the success of Mix08 in Las Vegas we are on schedule for a great event with some interesting keynote speakers...more details to follow

Brighton Centre: 18-19th September 2008

For more info, check out the main site here

So I got around to downloading DeepZoom Composer and putting together some pics of the Marathon des Sables race from earlier this year.

Take a look here: MDS DeepZoom Example

Use your mousewheel/slider/clicking to zoom in and have a look at the map with photos on the roadbook.

See if you can find this convict:

So I've moved blog presence to here now.  I've a number of things to catch up on...not limited to

My Marathon des Sables experience - yes, I've been banging on about it since I got back last month - still possible to sponsor me by the way!

My new role at work

Silverlight and DeepZoom projects I've been playing around with

Just about to finish combining 1 and 3 together...