Joel From Canada

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I've been working with Excel Services in SharePoint 2007 lately and I must say there is some massive power here.  Microsoft has done a good job at laying out the usage scenarios with this powerpack of services and I'm even impressed with the performance so far.

Derek Netcasts.. go figure. 

Lots of people reading Jeremy's post about programming manifesto.  Well written I must say.  I love reading the reaction of other’s to such a posts… it’s all shock in awe.  Cheers.  Amen Brother!! New thinking.  Wow thinking as a matter of fact. 

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A couple of weeks ago someone pointed out Google Co-p, a new service from Google that allows you to create a custom web search site.  I tried to think of a few ideas on how I would use this and really couldn't think of a reson until I saw Google Torrents.  Neato! I use torrents a lot as they are quickly becoming entrenched int he ultra media geek lifestyle.  I usually have a cluster of torrent sites that I go between to find what I'm looking for - not any more.

I've been using Office 2007 on Vista for a number of months now, and if there is one product that I've re-fallen in love with, it's Groove.  Simply put, Groove WILL change how you work - it has for me and I suspect that once the rest of my team starts using it, I'll even see more value from the product. 

I've tried many different tools and services in the past to better how I collaborate on documents with others.  I've tried NetMeeting, LiveMeeting, and even OneNote in collaboration mode.  All had some very good promises - all have let me down mostly because of the reliance of either screen capture technology ("no, let me take control of the app now..") or just poor performance...