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Microsoft TechNet Events Today and Tomorrow!!!
25 March 09 02:22 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

Just a reminder that there are a few Microsoft events being run over the next couple of days. ‘Tech Days’ are a collaborative effort between Microsoft and the IT Pro Community to re-deliver the highlights of Tech Ed Conference to IT Pros across Ireland...

Filed under: Events, Gaming, Community, Virtualisation, SharePoint, Business Intelligence, IT Pro, Microsoft, Xbox 360, SQL Server, Windows 7, Home Server, HyperV, Photos

Competition: What’s missing from this picture?
28 January 09 08:55 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

  legal statement: Not really a competition, no prizes and defiantly  no purchases necessary!! That’s right you eagle eyed gamers I’m missing the Xbox 360 :S, that’s because the nice people at Microsoft have ask for it back so they can give...

Filed under: Gaming, Xbox 360

Halo 3 Beta (via the Crackdown invite)
18 May 07 10:21 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

Did take me all evening to d/l it last night and when it finished I did have problems with the Beta not being availiable and then not being able to start matchmaking (I touched the port forwarding settngs for my XBox on my router). I'm now all beta'd...

Filed under: Gaming, Xbox 360

Slaine's Multiple XBox Live Gamercard Gadget
24 April 07 06:23 | Simon Phillips | 1 comment(s)

I've created another Vista Sidebar gadget, this time to track all your XBox friends using there Gamercards There are a few gadgets already out there but they did meet my requirements, so I quickly put one together, using the same principles I used...

Filed under: Gaming, Vista, Gadgets, Xbox 360

Slaine's World of Warcraft Realm Status Vista Gadget
18 April 07 02:08 | Simon Phillips | 2 comment(s)

Last October I started my first Vista Sidebar gadget, and got a bit stuck in getting the alpha transparencies in the popup to work correctly see My first Vista Sidebar gadget . Due to getting a couple of emails from people to see how I was getting along...

Filed under: Gaming, Vista, Gadgets

Emergence day +1 - The LAN Event
20 November 06 02:09 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

Saturday saw one of our regular LAN events. The star of the show, for me, was definantly Gears of War. I havn't had so much fun in a game for a while. In our 10 hour session we got to play: Call of Duty 3 Gears of War Spliter Cell: Double Agent Don't...

Filed under: Gaming

My first Vista Sidebar gadget
24 October 06 08:49 | Simon Phillips | 1 comment(s)

A while ago I did build a Konfabulator Widget (now Yahoo Gadgets) for World of Warcraft ( Slaine's WoW Realm Status Widget ). This widget went off to the Blizzard - Realm Status pages and returned the status of your favourite server. With playing around...

Filed under: Gaming, Vista, Gadgets