Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 08:34PM The car needed new tyres. The man in the garage was trying to find out what kind to get. He asked me how far I drive each year. “Around 10,000 miles or so” I said. “Oh” he replied. “In that case I’ll get you a set of ‘Middle of the Road’ ones”.
I really liked that.
Life Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 05:06PM We had our first Saturday Open Day of the season today. Had a great bunch of people to see us (I always say they are great if they laugh at one of my jokes).
Here they are, looking quite happy – although I hadn’t told the joke yet…
As usual, we gave away a PSP to one lucky winner.
Mike did the honours this time.
pictures Friday, February 20, 2009 at 08:14PM I’m using the fancy new Windows Live SkyDrive to share out my presentation and the demo programs from yesterday:
SkyDrive is actually rather neat. You can attach it to your Windows Live account and it gives you 5GBytes of storage which you can use for public or private data storage.
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 03:09PM Did my one and only degree warmup of this round of ceremonies today. It was for the students from our faculty, which meant that there were people in the audience who I had actually taught something. Perhaps. Everyone played their parts very well and it was a terrific ceremony. I took the camera along, of course.
Artistic shot of one of the maces
Hon. Grad Sir Andrew Clark, Master of the Rolls, giving his speech (very good one by the way).
Looking Left
Looking Right
I took the pictures at the end of the ceremony when everyone is relaxed, including me. My little camera did quite a good job with the shots.If you want to see a much bigger versions (where you can pretty much recognise everyone) click on the images above and follow the links to the versions on my Flickr account. Then click on the (+ All Sizes) button at the top so you can play “Where’s Wally (or Waldo)” properly.
pictures Friday, February 20, 2009 at 09:52AM I’ve noticed that one way to get really good photographs is to go to nice places and take pictures of them. I’ve lost count of the number of lovely shots I’ve seen in photo books with captions like “The Rice Fields on the mountains of Jokarta look lovely just after dawn”. In this respect, Portugal is a definite win. It has this fantastic light.
Cranes on the skyline
The way into the hotel. Pity the fountains were turned off, but you can’t have everything.
The venue this year was the Instituto Superior Tecnico at Taguspark, right opposite the Microsoft Portugal offices. I like doing sessions in Portugal. I always get a great audience. The session was all about the .NET Micro Framework, and how you can take over the world using it.
I said I’d put a picture of you all up after the session. Here you all are.
Playing with the toys afterwards…
Now, that’s some kind of font…
Outside the building.
I got back last night and staggered into bed. I’d been away just about 24 hours or so and spent 8 of those in the air. But it was all great fun. Thanks to Microsoft Portugal for setting it up.
I’ll be putting the sample code and the presentation up on my blog tonight.
