Hi all

I have just been informed by my MVP Lead, that Patrick Tisseghem, a very excellent SharePoint guru and co-founder of U2U has passed away a couple of days ago.

I have had the pleasure of listening t Patrick talk only once, but he left an impression of a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic professional, as well as a great guy who is happy to meet people and talk to them about what ever is one his/their minds.

My thoughts go to his wife, his children and the rest of his family.

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eliasen

Hi all

I am probably the 234'th blogger to write about this, but just in case...

Alan Smith has decided to maintain two bloggers guides for now... One is the commonly known Bloggers Guide to BizTalk. The new one is the Bloggers Guide to Oslo, which deals with the oslo related technologies, such as WCF and WF.

Alan has had the guide on gotdotnet earlier, but now he has created the http://bloggersguides.net/ site, which I highly recommend you monitor closely

That's all, folks.

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eliasen

Hi all

I am happy to announce, that a couple of great guys are planning to start a .NET User Group here in Aalborg, Denmark, where I am happy to live.

Information about the group can be found at their web site at http://www.aanug.dk/ - no information yet, though. It will appear soon, they promise

Looking forward to seeing what it will be about. Hopefully, I can spread the word about BizTalk and learn more / tell about Oslo.

Anyway, if you are in the Aalborg area, consider emailing the guys and join the group. Lets get a good start!

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eliasen

Hi everyone

Yes, I know that my web page is in blue colours. Yes, I know my blog is in blue colours. Yes, I know my new BizTalk site is in blue colours. And yess, I know that my sons web page is in blue colours.

Yes, I like blue colours - quit whining!

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eliasen

Hi everyone.

I often realize, that I need some information, but can't really remember what the thing was called or where to get it.

So I decided to keep track of all the BizTalk stuff I find on my way at http://biztalk.eliasen.dk - which is now officially launched

Until now, not much information is there, but it will grow eventually.

Please, always also use the http://biztalk247.com website, since it really has a great collection of data... But feel free to use my new site, if you want

Hope this is useful for someone...

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eliasen

Hi everyone!

A couple of hours ago, I received a mail from Microsoft stating, that I have been awarded the MVP title!

I cannot begin to describe, how happy I am with this, since I made it a personal goal of mine a couple of years ago, to get the title back. I had it from July 2004 to July 2005, as some of you know.

I have even danced a little bit in our living room with my hands above my head, I must confess

I truly am happy to get the title back, since it means that Microsoft values my skills within the BizTalk field and that I must have helped a lot of people in the online communities.

To learn more about the MVP program, you can click here.

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eliasen

Hi everyone.

I have just upgraded the software on my blog to dasBlog version 1.9.7174.1.

I hope it has been smooth for you all, and if you notie any difficulties, please let me know.

Later, I will upgarde to dasBlog 2.0, which has been out forquite some time, but one step at the time, ight?

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eliasen

Hi everyone

Well, after 7 months at thy:data it seemed clear to me, that thy:data wasn't the place I wanted to work. Luckily at the same time, my old employer WM-data, that has changed its name to Logica, was searching for someone exactly with my skills. So it didn't take long for us to reach an agreement, and therefore, on the 1'st April, I am starting at Logica.

I am really looking forward to this - I will be going back to all my old colleagues, and my assignments will vary much, going from presale, writing quotes and promoting Logica to Microsoft to actual design and development of large integration projects, based on BizTalk, .NET3.0 and stuff.

Just 2 weeks to go...

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eliasen

Hi

Finally(!) I found time (Well, I should probably have done something else...) to review the design of my eliasen.dk homepage. It was awful, black and very much outdated.

The new design is better, updated, brighter, happier, implemented in .NET and much more

If you have comments about it, feel free to send them to me.

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eliasen

Hi

Well, the time has come for me to start running again.

11 years ago (when I was a soldier), I was quite the runner. My best times are 5 km in 17:30 and half a marathon (21,0975 km) in 1:32:46.

Since then, the weight has come up, as the amount of exercise went down .

Anyway, I have lost about 7kg in the last 3-4 months, and now was the time to start running again... and today was the first time.

A local fitness center had an offer for new members, that I have taken, so not only did I run today for the first time in a very long time, I also did it on a running machine. That took some getting used to! I managed to get the damn machine running, but then it stopped... then I started it again... and then it stopped. Probably next time I will get some help figuring out how to set the machine appropriately. The run itself went fairly well... around 7km. I will have to bring some music the next time, though.

It felt pretty weird, that I did some interval training, where the maximum speed (16 km/h) was just about the same speed as I ran for an hour without breaks in my earlier years (15 km/h) 

So, any goals, Jan? Yes, off course. I have a couple;

1. I would like my average time to run 1 km to be about 4 minutes.
2. At "Limfjordsløbet" (14 km) at the end of May (2008 ), I want to run faster than a friend of mine called Tom. Also, running faster than my old boss Anne would be nice . 4 minutes per kilometer would take care of both
3. At some point, I want to run a marathon. I will wait a couple of months to set any specific dates, times, etc. for this one, since I am really in no shape to guess right now

My legs are fine, I believe.. but perhaps tomorrow I will edit that part out of this blog post

The plan now is to run every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on average.. sometimes it will be Wednesday instead of Tuesday and so on.

Wish me luck...

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eliasen