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Social Networking: The double-edged sword of maintaining an online presence

Exploring the new frontier I’m writing this post whilst watching my Windows Home Server slowly copy data onto an external drive. I mention that not because of its pertinence, but to indicate why I found myself having time to join Facebook . The other reason was the excellent session given by Eileen Brown...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 01-31-2010
New and coming Microsoft technologies you need to look at

Yesterday was the annual Black Marble Tech Update event, where we try to cover every product in the Microsoft arsenal in half a day, telling local businesses what’s coming and what deserves attention. Writing up the content of the presentations would be almost as exhausting as the research required for...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 01-28-2010
Remote working solutions (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the snow)

We lost remarkably few days of productivity to the bad weather at Black Marble. That wasn’t because we were all intrepid, hardy types and all made it into the office. Far from it – some of us live in areas where they don’t grit very often and can’t make it to the main roads. As you guessed from the title...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 01-24-2010
Berlin: Legoland Experience

I’d love to say that I enjoyed the Legoland Experience in Berlin, located beneath the Sony Centre in Potzdamer Platz. I’d love to, but I can’t – I’ve been to a conference you know; none of this sightseeing malarky for me. Having said that, whilst visiting the Mauerfall celebrations I stumbled upon the...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-13-2009
Places to eat in Berlin: Coa

It’s becoming a tradition that every time I attend a conference or travel anywhere interesting I post at least a couple of places to eat. Perhaps ironically, none of the places I am about to post about serve cuisine that you could reasonable call German. It’s true – we’ve done coffee and cake – that...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-13-2009
Berlin: Four storeys of Windows 7 goodness

As you walk out of the U-bahn at Potzdamer Platz right now, you are faced with the most enormous advertisement you have ever seen. Well done HP and Windows 7 – subtle it most certainly is not!

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-13-2009
20 Jahre Mauerfall

Monday night saw the official celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the historic events which saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and paved the way for German reunification. Sadly, the night was cold and wet – the rain was falling in torrents as we made our way to Potsdamer Platz and walked towards...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-11-2009
Ich bin ein Berliner

As you may know, TechE d 2009 EMEA is in Berlin this year. You may also know that this year is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I’m here in Berlin, which means that I’ll try to blog what’s going on at TechEd. However, this post is all about the really cool idea Berlin has for...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 11-09-2009
The History of Computing

Black Marble took a trip down technology memory lane with a visit to the National Museum of Computing . Black Marble proudly sponsor this important organisation – which is showcasing the pioneering work of the first computer developers who cracked the Enigma codes right through the growth of the...

Posted to The Geek Watcher (Weblog) by Linda on 09-08-2009
Breaking the Code

As part of Black Marble’s day of celebrating our computing history, we visited Bletchley Park – home of the historic site of Station X , the base of British codebreaking activities during World War II and birthplace of the modern computer. A conservation area since the early nineties, the Park was saved...

Posted to The Geek Watcher (Weblog) by Linda on 09-08-2009

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