Mark Roddis

Entries from July 2009

Sometimes life is just too difficult

07/07/2009 · Comments Off

What can I say.

The Happy Egg Co is now supplying ready prepared hard boiled eggs to a supermarket near you.

So if boiling your own egg is just too hard for you to manage or just takes too long (after all, time is money) these could be just what you need. Hey they even take the shells off for you as well.

So pop over to The Happy Egg Companies web site right now to find your nearest stockist.

Failing that, if you are not quite a couch potato yet, how about this handy (1 minute and 31 second) educational video:

PS

It it only me that is thinking this is one simplifying step step too far?

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National Rail Enquiries Outlook Add-In

07/07/2009 · Comments Off

This is one of those things that does not sound very interesting but is actually really cool.

Last year I blogged about some really cool stuff that Microsoft had been doing with National Rail Enquiries.

This video shows you the concept

Anyhow, several months have lapsed and I was beginning to wonder if this concept was ever going to make it to reality.

Well good news.

I have today discovered that at least part of this concept is now reality and really neat Outlook Add-In can now be downloaded (for free) from the National Rail Enquiries Website.

As you will see, this can be a really useful tool if like me you rely on your Outlook calendar to organise your day. The ability to set up an appointment for a meeting and then let this tool work out how to get there via train really can save a lot of time.

So have a look, download it for free and have a play.

if you want to know more about the team and technology behind this then check out Mark Bloodworths blog (mark is an Architect Evangelist over at Microsoft) or David Gristwoods blog (also Microsoft).

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