Archive for June, 2006

Blogging from Microsoft: Day 1 and 2 – Arrival

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Well, I did write a blog post just after my first day, but unfortunately my computer crashed and I lost it before I got a chance to post it. Damnit. So here’s a brief overview of what I had previously written:
Microsoft is excellent.
I went in yesterday really not knowing what to expect, but it seems [...]

Blogging from Microsoft: Day 0 – Arrival

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Whoo! I’ve just arrived in not-so-sunny Melbourne. I’m pretty excited about starting work at Microsoft tomorrow… it’s going to be sweet.
Here’s some other random observations about today: I’ve endured the six hours of driving, that was fine. I had the Dell Inspiron 6400 with me in the car, and have noticed that the glossy UltraSharp [...]

It’s back!

Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Site Stuff

Ben Stone Online has had a turbulent few days, with the changing of web hosts, and a WordPress blogging software migration that went awry. However I can gladly say that it has pretty much all been sorted, and now the site works properly! Big thanks to the guys at Mackro Technology for not only hosting [...]

The reason I made this blog

Sunday, June 4th, 2006
Computing

Firstly, some OMGPIX of my shiny new Dell are in my new photo gallery I’ve just set up, located here.
But now onto the good stuff. You might be wondering, why did I set up this blog? Why did I decide to waste money on buying a domain and waste time on setting up WordPress to [...]