October 2004 - Posts
Update: I've rewritten this post, and placed it in the articles section of my blog. That's right - the update I've been promising for months has finally arrived! While the theory hasn't changed much, it's got a much better working example, and the javascript
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First, is it just me, or are the standard .net blogs fairly low on the asp.net? By standard, i mean the big five (that i read, anyway) - dotnetjunkies , blogs.msdn.com , weblogs.asp.net , geekswithblogs and vbcity . Yes, i know msdn and weblogs.asp.net
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I think I've finally made it to an acceptable position in the blog world. Today I got hit with comment spam. Only three times, but they linked to some lovely 'free' pr0n galleries. I've gotta say, this is a special moment in my life. On a different note,
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I just found a very cool referrer link on my blog. I'm not sure why, but I've discovered that my post here is third main google result for the search ' omea reader crack '. I mean, i can see how i got into the results, but third??? Surely I should be
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Update: A couple of months ago, I blogged about a cool way to make a HTML table body scroll in IE using CSS expressions. That post is by far the most hit page I've written - it seems that many people are trying to figure this out. Since it's been so popular,
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I'm writing a couple of asp.net pages. Nothing unusual there. The problem is that one of these pages is shown via a 'window.showModalDialog()' in some javascript on the first. In the dialog, when you submit a postback, it opens the result in a new window.
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I noticed on Stefano Demiliani's page that he had a dotnetjunkies google search box on his page. I thought about how it would be nice if it didn't search just dotnetjunkies, but just a specific blog. So i've attempted my own. For those who come to my
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This post was inspired by Frank Arrigo . He took a couple of weeks off work a little while ago, and finished his break by getting sick . I've been assured that he's doing well and is out of hospital , but is under doctors orders to rest up. While he has
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I do my best not to be petty. I try really hard. But sometimes, i can't help but smile when the tables get turned. When it's to do with security, it shouldn't matter what the product is, it's not a laughing matter. But...after all the flack that microsoft
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So, i've got no issues with SP2. It's well worth the upgrade. Some people don't quite agree, sure, but that's always going to be the case - people will always differ on opinions . (Case in point: the latest rave that people seem to be clamoring for out
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I had a great day today. For many reasons, but mostly because it was productive. The project I'm working on is really coming together. I can't talk about my work too much, not because it's all top secret government work, but simply because it's commercial,
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Check out this blog entry at Chris Johnson's blog . You can speed up acrobat reader 6 startup times tremendously by buggering off most of the plugins. Yay.
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I hate XP themes. I hate skins. Things look good to me when they are neat, tidy, spiffy, but plain (note to self: do not make a joke here about this must be why i'm engaged to Jordie. I can't, she's not neat and tidy *grin*) When I'm on an XP box, the
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So, Soma spilt the beans and announced E&C in C#. This makes me happy. For too long, I've been feeling that C# has been running behind VB. I don't mean it's a worse language, i mean that it's been slower to gain any useful benefits, and the priorities
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Yeah yeah, i know, everyones talking about it. I'm almost sick of reading about it already - damn there's a heap of info available already for it. I should start with the obligatory - Google released a desktop indexer and searcher . Right now that that's
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Seriously, they do. Some recent examples. A recent blog post by Raymond Chen : things the news has taught us - Molten rock makes volcano glow red, and concrete is stronger once it has hardened. Bruce Williams talks about a Microsoft garage band in Microsoft's
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What could i be whinging about? Something that i never thought i would - much, anyway. As my regular readers would know , I prefer to listen to music in winamp . With my recent reinstall at home, I went and downloaded the latest build (they update versions
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I'm sitting here reading the latest sets of blog posts that downloaded while I was watching CSI, and i came across this little gem. Robert Scoble tonight (it's tonight in Aussie time anyway) has been taking the piss out of Steve Jobs seeming to say that
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I've never really put much thought into it until tonight. Blogs, to me, are geek things, full of IT gossip and coding splendour ( among other things ). Online journals are completely different. They're a personal diary, but published online at the same
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As I discovered here , Service Pack1 for Virtual PC 2004 is now available. The biggest reason I like this is because it removes the slowness that XPSP2 brought into it. Yay :) Listening to: unwell - matchbox 20 - (3:48)
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I'm a geek. I know this. I like reading comic books, i like sci fi and fantasy, and i love computers. It will probably come as no shock then to discover that i'm a fan of the Superman movies. When Christohper Reeve fell off his horse in 1995, i considered
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Well, i ran the gauntlet and survived. I didnt' quite make it through without some injuries, however. All programs are back and operational (except ones that i haven't quite got around to - like ActiveSync for Jordie's PDA - i'll do that later tonight.
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The time is now. I'm going to do it. No really, i mean it. For the last 3 months or so, my home computer has needed a reinstall. I've been delaying and delaying because it takes so long to do. And i've been waiting for my MSDN subscription to show up,
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I've aimed my first attack in Mitch Denny 's direction. Take that, you scoundrel! Avast, cannons on the port side! No idea what i'm talking about? See here and here . Listening to: we gotta get out of this place - karaoke from the next room - (too long
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Wow. I was contacted out of the blue via my blog for some coding help. I'm not sure why i was chosen, but it was question that i found interesting, so i went and found out the answer. Here's the question (paraphrased): I want to trap all keyboard inputs
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So, the challenge has been accepted. Mitch Denny thinks that his daughter is cuter than mine. We shall see about that. ( insert evil laugh here - imagine something scary and slightly painful, that, by the end of it, is just more along the lines of annoying
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Have you got here via some sort of google search for serializing hashtables in .net? If so, you'll get more/better info from a newer entry of mine: How to Serialize a Hashtable (and a Date) . Many people come here via this sort of search, so I wrote something
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I found some old pictures the other day. Back in about 2000, I decided to have some fun. Over the course of a couple of weekends my hair was first dyed very blonde, then coloured. It's no big deal really - I used to dye it black all the time. But this
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A friend of mine (Noonie - no blog *grrr*) discovered a reference somewhere to a new rss reader called Omea Reader . It's made by the people at JetBrains (think ReSharper - a product i know little about because it's only for C# :(. When i started trying
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Well, 24 hours seems to be a long time in the google world. Last night i posted about how i had an atom link in my gmail, that gave an rss feed of new items in my inbox. Today it's gone. But now that i'm home from work, i log into my home computer and
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Howdy all. I have a request to make of you. For starters, I have no idea how many people actually read my blog. This is fine - i'm not writing entries to anyone in particular, so whoever sees it, sees it, and if it's useful to you, then good. But now
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A strange thing happened to me this week. I received an email from someone that i'd never heard of, addressed to someone called Mitch. It was sent to me (it appears) via the contact link on my blog. So, being the conscientious citizen that i am (alright,
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