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Public Class GeoffAppleby

Inherits Microsoft.VisualBasic.MVP : Implements IBrainFart

September 2004 - Posts

It's time again - All Gone
I'm sick of them sitting in there beggin to be used - i just want them gone now! I've got 6 gmail invites. Use the contact link on my page to ask for them. Hurry, stocks won't last (until i get 6 more...which will likely be tomorrow :) Listening to: nuffin Read More...
So many tips in one little blog entry
I was reading this blog entry by Jon Galloway , and discovered so much useful info in one post that i just had to link it. Executive summary: 1) A Virtual PC running XP SP2 (the vpc, not the host) will run very slowly, due to an incompatability with the Read More...
The things we do when we're young.
Poor Frank Arrigo has been having an interesting time of late. His son seems to have decided to add another food group category to the list - inanimate objects. It's caused me some amusement reading about the progress of it all - espically with thoughts Read More...
RIP Joan
My Great Aunt died this afternoon. My father not long ago called and told me. There's no details yet - her husband is getting all the phone calls out of the road before he calls the close family mack with more info - and i imigine he's taking his time Read More...
The most useful tip i'll ever get.
There's one thing that has annoyed me for a long time in Visual Studio. Now, some of you might know the answer to this already, but no one I know does, which goes to show you just how blind some of us are :) Let's say i have a project that includes many Read More...
The dreaded FLock key.
Wow. I haven't had much to post about lately - i've been too busy actually getting some work done. Coming soon (well, eventually....) will be a whole hunk of posts at once targetting IE and shell extensions in .net, but you'll have to wait till i get Read More...
Winamp is still my player of choice
Well, in my last post , I mentioned that MP10 was out. I feel it's important that people know what's going on, and have the full set choices in front of them to make a wise decision. That said, I've upgraded to MP10 and I still don't like it. Why? Because Read More...
Media Player 10 is out.
You can get the info hot off the weblogs presses here . It's good to see them still trying to make improvements. I'll give this one a go, but i'm guessing that the end resutl is going to be the situation i'm in now: nothing beats Winamp :) You'd think Read More...
And the competition, so quickly, comes to an end.
You may recall a little competition i posted about , asking for people to write some code in exchange for 6 GMail invites. My thanks to those who took a look and offered some suggestions. It ends up that sometimes the easiest way is the best, and I have Read More...
Congrats to Mitch Denny
I'm sure you all know by now of the Microsoft Product Feedback Center , for reporting problems you've had o suggestions you think of for whidbey. Well, recently (like only two weeks ago), Mitch Denny - a fellow Canberran (i think) which is in australia Read More...