Just back from snowboarding in Austria and before starting to work again I needed to train my brains again. And instead of using my girlfriends Nintendo DS lite with Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training I found @twitbrain on Twitter ;-) So back to those old days where your teaser was asking the next question? How much is 75 +plus+ (7 times 45) +plus+ (4 times 73)? Me!Me!Me!

Yesterday I got my new Twitter Background created by Dan Kregor. I follow Dan and when I visited his Twitter page I loved his background. So I asked him how he created his beautiful background and before I new he suggested to create one for me! How awesome is this?   Dan thanks for creating this beautiful Twitter background for me! I’m loving it!

Source: gvenkdaily Among the technologies Microsoft is highlighting in its booth at CES this year is a hardware and software platform for the next generation of more useful and flexible household objects, appliances and accessories. The Windows-based platform is the result of a collaboration between Microsoft and a recently formed company called Fugoo. Two of the concept designs featured in a video at the booth are a “net” clock that, in addition to giving the time, can also download and display a stock ticker and local traffic and weather reports, and a digital photo frame that can not only download your latest holiday photos, but can also be programmed to display anything else available on the Internet, from current news headlines and sports scores to full-length movies. How cool is this? Read more on Microsoft PressPass and the Fugoo website.

I got a question about Windows Live Writer from Rod Trent and when investigating this question I found that you can easily create blog posts when you are in Internet Explorer. How? Just go to Tools and click on Blog This in Windows Live Writer. This should also work in IE7.

Did you ever heard about Twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? More and more people in the System Center world are using Twitter as a means to communicate with each other. The latest in line is the The Manageability Team and according to J.C. Hornbeck why do they use Twitter?  “Well, the main reason is because while RSS and ATOM feeds are nice, with Twitter you can receive updates on your phone, via IM or on the web at places like Facebook.  It's much of the same information, it's just now you have more options on how you receive it." And what I would add is the great way you can respond to Tweets (messages on Twitter) by replying just like emails. I hope I’ve convinced you to start using Twitter. What are the steps to get started? Create a Twitter account here. Go and Follow people (following someone simply means receiving their Twitter updates) Who do I know which people I should follow? Here is a list of System Center/OpsMgr interested people I follow: rodtrent MSManageability MPNotifier opsmgr aquilaweb lazyindustries dani3l3 jpavleck wwwally bernardosanchez sstranger (me ;-)) Read and create Tweets. For reading and creating Tweets you can use the Twitter website or you can install different clients. Twadget — The Twitter Vista Sidebar Gadget Twhirl based on the Adobe AIR platform. And for Windows Mobile I use Tiny Twitter That’s it ;-) For more info on read the faq on Twitter. Most important twitter tip make sure that your Twitter settings say "get all @replies". Otherwise you only receive replies from people you follow. Warning! It’s addictive!

Yesterday I reinstalled my personal website and deleted my old weblog (http://weblog.stranger.nl).  I used to run my old weblog on Drupal but after starting a new weblog on Technet I didn’t update my personal weblog anymore. Now I created a Lifestream, a real-time flow of my activity across various websites, with the occasional blog post on http://www.stranger.nl with Sweetcron. So now you can follow everything about me on one single place ;-) If  you are looking for articles I stored on my old weblog, you can contact me and I’ll try to find them. I’ve created a backup from my old weblog and if I’ve time I will try to install this as an archive somewhere.