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The blog has been very quiet for a few months, and even my forum posting level has dropped, and that is because I have moved house. 

I am now located in the Thames Valley, midway between Newbury (home of Vodafone) and Reading (home of Microsoft UK). It took me a little while to settle in, as I moved from a very small one bedroom flat (apartment) in to a three bedroom detached house. Although oddly my stuff appears to have grown to fill the space!

I now have a real office instead of the corner of the lounge, a real kitchen instead of the corner of the lounge and a lounge without a kitchen and my office in it. I also have a garden, which is somewhat of a shock as I am so not green fingered. 

Anyway all good fun and I am now back up to speed with client work. 

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Once again the UK IT Pro User Groups are getting together to have a community day at Microsoft in Reading. This time it will be spread over two days - 8th and 9th of April 2008.

I presented at one last year alongside Nathan Winters, but this time I have my own session. I will be presenting a session on behalf of the Microsoft Messaging & Mobility User Group (MMMUG - http://www.mmmug.co.uk/) on the first day on the subject of Client Access to Exchange 2007. This will include unified messaging with Outlook Voice Access, OWA, Windows Mobile and Outlook 2007. Particularly emphasis on what is new on Exchange 2007 SP1.
The idea is to show you the different ways that you can access your email, then look at the control the Exchange administrator has over those interfaces. This will be a hands on session, rather than something that is just a serious of Powerpoint slides.

As well as my own session I will be there all day sitting in the other sessions, the product group Q&A and the end Q&A at the end of the first day.

The event is free of charge, but you do need to register in advance. Full details of the agenda for the two days, the speakers and their sessions, plus registration details can be found on the web site: http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk/

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For the third year in a row, I am expert of the year at Experts Exchange. I also answered the most questions during the year - 5798 - which is an average of just over 16 questions a day.
I also picked up most points from assists.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/expertAwards2008.jsp

In other Experts Exchange news, I have decided to take a break from it for a while, so that I can concentrate on my business. You will still see me posting on other sites, but the traffic through EE is so high that it was taking up too much of my time to keep on top of it. I haven't posted in a new question on that site since Jan 1st, but I am still getting questions that I worked on before coming through, and have earned 250,000 points without even trying.

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