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David Boreham goes native

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Top news just in from the Billings Gazette, Montana. David Boreham has flipped his badge. Yes, he’s now an American. So, Mr. Bush can now draft him now and send him to Iraq. Is that Victoria Beckham on his left?. Send her too please!

Netscape 1998

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

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Originally uploaded by merrells.

Pete, Todd and Myself – walking back from lunch at the Netscape canteen circa 1998. (Photo courtesy of Mr Boreham’s negative scanning project.)

Michael Wilson joins Microsoft

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

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Originally uploaded by merrells.

I worked on Michael’s team way back at the begining of time, circa 1995. We were building a voice mail system for Octel (now Avaya, via Lucent). It was built on Microsoft NT and used Exchange as its Directory and Message store. [...]