An Interview on TechNet about Visio

I was interviewed by Microsoft when I was at the MVP conference in March. I rambled on about some of my experiences with Visio over the years.  It has now been published for all to see at http://edge.technet.com/Media/Visio-Drawing-on-Experience-with-David-Parker/ 

In case you are wondering, the shirt was from the 1998 Visio Conference, which was pre-Microsoft.  It’s probably time that I had a new wardrobe!

Seattle Trip May 2009

I went to see the latest version of Visio last week at Microsoft Campus in Redmond, but, as usual, chose to stay in Seattle because it is such a great city.  I love to walk down to Pike Place market in the morning to ponder over which specialist food to select, or to smell the flowers as they are arranged for the day’s pickings.  So, with a piroshky (Russian pastry) and coffee I strolled to the little park at the end to contemplate the day.  The view across Puget Sound is fantastic and I wanted to capture it to share with my friends.  I only have a handy little digital camera, but fortunately, I recently became aware of a handy little application called Microsoft Image Composite Editor (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ ) .  MICE patches your photos together to make a larger panorama, and then you can export it into many different formats.

I have saved four panoramas for viewing using Deep Zoom in Silverlight 2.

Seattle Trip May 2009