Last night we had the end of conference meal, followed by a group (Peter Drayton & Ian Palmer) of us playing TransAmerica into the wee hours. The presentation was well received despite Peter overrunning :) Robert

The food for Wednesdays evening meal was not the best, however the company was very interesting. I talked with Paul Rhodes and Peter Cowling from the University of Bradford and Peter Drayton who is on the Rotor team. Robert

I have just attended a very interesting talk by Christopher Bishop (MSR Cambridge http://research.microsoft.com/~cmbishop ) about Machine Learning. He covered “Super-resolution enhancement of pictures” which is adding information to an image using an offset image or human determined perspective. Intelligent Edit and …

We are currently in sunny ( it's raining ) Dublin for Microsoft Research Academic days. I have met up with Peter Cowling, Paul Rhodes from the University of Bradford and our Talk for Friday on AI for Games has been finished so we can relax and enjoy the conference. Robert

Black Marble was invited to present alongside the University of Bradford at a Microsoft Research Conference in Dublin. Robert Hogg of Black Marble presented with Peter Cowling of the University of Bradford, on the Use of Viruses and Bugs to Teach Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programming using C# .NET. Linda

Black Marble spent half a day explaining Microsoft CRM to local businesses, and many were impressed by its features.

I have moved out blogs to a new server, so please use the URL http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/bm-bloggersas opposed to the old http://sabs.blackmarble.co.uk/bm-bloggers. I have put a redirection on the old address, but I don't know how RSS will like that !

Further to my broadband and authentication post I have found a problem using Crystal Enterprise via HTTPS. If I connect a Microsoft CRM website via HTTP and then use the links in the product to a Crystal report all is fine. However if I use HTTPS then I get the rarther common 'Microsoft CRM Crystal Reports Logon Error. …

I came accross a good got-ya when using HTTP over broadband to a Microsoft IIS with active directory authentication, you keep being forced to re-authenticate. However, if you use a dial-up connection or LAN all is fine. We noticed it using Outlook Web Access and Microsoft CRM but it would be the same with any products …

What a nightmare, I tried to change the settings on our 2K3 servers fax server and chaos reigned, all I wanted to do was add a modem!. The key problem was that the Fax Server Manager would not connect to the fax service, so you cannot edit anything. I quick look on newgroups showed I was not alone with this problem, …