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It seems that you can’t please all of the people all of the time.<\/p>\n

Alex<\/a> accuses me of being Microsoft-sponsored and jumps in whenever I dare to criticise Apple (or, to be fair, anything he knows more than me about).<\/p>\n

Then, a few days back, Sunny (who knew my blog before he knew me) remarked that I’d “gone over to the dark side” with “all this Solaris stuff”.<\/p>\n

Actually, Jamie<\/a> summed it up best of all when he christened my ramblings “incessant infrastructure and tech gossip”<\/a> – it just happens that in the past I’ve written mainly Microsoft stuff because that’s what I know best, but there’s always been a bit of industry chatter and stuff about my home network or technology that excites me.<\/p>\n

For everyone who has me in their feed reader for Microsoft-related posts, please bear with me – I’ve got a whole load of posts which are in a half-written state – I promise there will be something for you all soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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