Kate Carruthers

PDC 08 is the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference being held this year in Los Angeles, California from October 27-30. PDC is the conference where Microsoft displays its upcoming technologies, roadmaps & gives a sneak peak into the future of the Microsoft Platform. Its targetted at Solution Architects, and Cutting

Just had a totally different customer service experience with Joven of Virgin Mobile, at Centrepoint in Sydney.  Got a new mobile broadband modem and had a few issues connecting it to my Macbook.  He sat down and fixed it for me, told me to call him if any other issues.

A really unusual thing happened today. I had some spare time in between meetings and found myself in the city shopping precinct.  And, since I’ve needed a new watch for a while, decided to go shopping.   I have no preconceptions regarding price – I just want a nice looking silver

When HTML was first invented I got really interested in the precursor markup languages and did a bit of research on them. I discovered TeX, GML, SGML and learned how they had been used. Then I started to learn about HTML.  It was elegant and simple, almost sparse.  An ordinary

A tweet from my Twitter buddy Warlach earlier today got me thinking about certain skills that one should never admit to having mastered. Many years ago Wendy McCarthy told me that in her youth typing or shorthand were skills to which an ambitious young woman should never admit having mastered.

This snapshot of life in the raw on Twitter shows the reality of life in a community. BTW congrats to @markdavidson and @DaisyAvenue By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%