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Motorola XOOM 3.1 update for Europe

My beloved European XOOM finally is getting Android 3.1 support… Boy have I had to be patient…

Android™ 3.1 for Motorola XOOM™ will soon be available over the air to all Motorola XOOM users in Europe. We expect the over-the-air deployment to begin in early August, with the package being available for pull by August 9th.

Zero Day – Mark E. Russinovich

Just finished reading “Zero Day” by Mark E. Russinovich. The author is a fellow at Microsoft and well know in the computer circles for also being the author of various tools from SysInternals a company he used to own.

The book is about cyber-terrorist and without giving too much away its quite a interesting read.

Anyway… here is what is said about the book from the author himself:


An airliner’s controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their computer

databases when patients die after being administered incorrect dosages of their medicine. In the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl when its cooling systems malfunction.

At first, these random computer failures seem like unrelated events. But Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst who quit in disgust after witnessing the gross errors that led up to 9/11, thinks otherwise. Jeff fears a more serious attack targeting the United States computer infrastructure is already under way. And as other menacing computer malfunctions pop up around the world, some with deadly results, he realizes that there isn’t much time if he hopes to prevent an international catastrophe.

Written by a global authority on cyber security, Zero Day presents a chilling “what if” scenario that, in a world completely reliant on technology, is more than possible today—it’s a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen.

Good News!

I just purchased a look online and got the crappiest message in the world… thanks Amazon!

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Extruding Light Painting Out Of iPads

Maria has a new iPad… perhaps I should pinch it and have some fun with it.. just like these chaps have…

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

UK Windows Azure Online Conference–8th October

As someone who is very interested in Windows Azure, I would like to draw your attention to a online conference being run Microsoft…

An online conference: “Microsoft Online Cloud Conference: the TechDays team goes online” has had a date change. In my first post about the conference, I said it was running on the 20th September. Well, the registration site was only created this morning and so to give people enough notice of the registration, the date has been changed. It is now running on the 8th October.

Here are the registration details:

Event ID: 1032459728

Language(s): English.
Product(s):
Windows Azure.

Duration: 300 Minutes
Date/TIme:
08 October 2010 09:30 GMT, London
Registration page here.

reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/plankytronixx/archive/2010/09/13/uk-windows-azure-online-conference-date-change-now-8th-october.aspx