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Michael Sampson

A Tribute to BA's Terminal 5 at LHR

My flight to Rome is delayed, and so … here’s a tribute to the beautiful and HUGE Terminal 5 at LHR where I have spend the last few hours (and well done to Arup for making the terminal happen): Lots of people, Waiting, watching, staring blankly into space. […]

"Mind the Gap" and "Gap the Mind"

London is very good at warning train passengers about the board to “Mind the Gap.” In other words, don’t step down between the train and the platform and thus break your leg. But I always read it backwards, as “Gap the Mind.” That is, it’s good to have […]

London

It’s just about 7.30am on Sunday morning in London. I have been up since 4am, having collapsed in exhaustion at 8pm last night. I slept okay – not soundly, but okay. It look 36 hours to travel door-to-door from my home in New Zealand to my hotel in […]

What are you doing with SharePoint? Healthcare

I have been doing a survey on what organizations are doing with SharePoint. There were three questions, the second of which was an industry classification. For some industries, I received enough responses to give an industry breakdown. Here is the chart for Healthcare (19 responses): In comparison to […]

Seamless Teamwork on Kindle

Microsoft Press and O’Reilly have published many Microsoft Press titles to the Amazon Kindle story, including my book on using SharePoint 2007 in a business team for a project: Seamless Teamwork. It’s available immediately, at a Kindle price of US$11.99.