December 2004 - Posts
Someone asked to see the photos from my wedding yesterday. This means you all get subjected to it. Don't blame me, blame someone else! And no, the pictures aren't just coming in now - just like how I got a blog post entered within half an hour of saying
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It's been about half an hour since I said I do. Is this a new record for post wedding blogging? Anyone done it any faster? Let me know if you can find any :)
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Quiet now. Listen carfeully. There's a noise in the background. It's been getting louder for the last few days, but it's getting stronger all the time. It's fairly high pitched, repetitive, the same sound again and again. It conjures memories of days
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Well it's about bloody time. There's three people in my team at work, only which of which has a blog (me). My team leader has a spaces blog, but that doesn't count since he doesn't use it and only made it to reserve his name :) At least, that's all I
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This afternoon I had to go for a drive to shop that's just far enough away that I can get a full album listened to by the time I'm home again. So I flicked through my collection and grabbed '...And Justice For All' . I haven't listened to it in a while,
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I've finally got around to updating the list of Blogs on the side of my page. It's not everything that I subscribe to, but it's a good chunk of it. Most of the others I have are of a similar nature, but I can't be bothered to actually add all the links
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I was posting some feedback to comments made on that previous post of mine where I went a little crazy. It ended up being so long that I think a second post is in order - maybe not to you guys, but for me it's helpful :) Hey guys. Thanks for all your
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I had a sort of brain fart this morning, in which I thought of a useful tip for myself. I realised very quickly that not only was it useful to me, but it could be useful for others too. So I've decided to start a series of Useful Life Tips. Once in a
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I'm sitting here listening to the latest release from the G'Day World team. Instead of a regular podcast, they've been doing a lot of ' On the Pod ' casts, where the two guys randomly call people and record themselves having a chat with them. The latest
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I was looking in the Subscriber downloads on MSDN, and I see there's a new december drop out. This is cool. But the page says that it's Standard Edition. But the file size of the iso is about 700 meg more. So I'm confused. Anyone have any idea? Update:
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<whinge_and_rant> Gar! Fnark! God damnit. Stupid people make me so angry sometimes. It all started when Peter Torr posted on his blog about an installer issue . It was quite long,and talked about the trustworthiness of the Firefox installer. I took
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A while ago I added a search box to my blog. It went off and searched google, but the results were pretty poor. So I forgot about it. A couple of day ago, Sahil Malik theived - no - stole - no - plagiarised - no - (just kidding mate! :) had the same idea
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I've got my home internet connection with Telstra Bigpond . I have no complaints with them, we've very very rarely had any connectivity issues or anything. But I only got broadband recently (about 5 months ago) and to get it when I did, the cheapest available
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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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A while ago I posted a method of serializing a hashtable . It pretty much comes down to converting the hashtable to an array before it's serialized. A little after that, I talked about how this is fairly ugly in that you have to do the serialization yourself,
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One of the most important things Microsoft have done to clean up their image is the blogging thing. I don't know exactly whether the reason behind it was for the image, or a legitimate attempt at being more open, or just something that sounded like a
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I talked last week about how I was taking the plunge and checking out this months .net user group meeting in Canberra. Well, it was this afternoon. I'm here to report that it was almost a complete success (see lower where i mention hardware failures)!
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I was catching up on blog posts to night and stumbled accross this little gem by Sajay Antony . I'm impressed as can be, but of course felt constrained by the fact that it was for C#. So, not to be left out, I quickly whipped up a VB version that uses
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That's what the guys at MSN are telling me, anyway :) A friend of mine installed the MSN toolbar suite earlier today. He's got a laptop with XP SP2 installed on it, nothing special in the way of devices or apps. So what happened when he tried to install?
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Dr Peter Stanski has started a blog ( rss ). A lot of Aussies out there should know who he is, but for those of you who don't, he's the guy who runs the aus-dotnet mailing list, very useful list to ask people for help and here the latest tech gossip.
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I made my own South Park character . Not a bad likeness, if i do say so myself :) (Found via Steve Makofsky who found it via Bruce Williams ) I also did one of the whole family:
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I often avoid user groups. This is a bias of mine, that throws back to some awkward experiences several years ago. It's no big deal really. I've studiously avoided my local .net user group in Canberra , for a couple of reasons. Mostly, they're held at
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I saw a reference to this on Andrew Coates' blog the other day. Why the hell not? I thought to myself. So on Tuesday I followed the link , ordered it, and sat back and watched. I'm a sucker for free stuff, and for us Aussies, it's completely free, including
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Tonight I decided to have a play with some of the current betas that are currently available for Windows Server 2003. I have a couple of W2K3 servers sitting in my virtual server from when I was playing with Team System , so I thought I'd put one of them
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First off, all you non-IE people stop sniggering . Now, onto business... A wierd bug bit me last week that had me tearing my hair out. The site I'm developing for work is a frameset. Inside one of the frames is a hidden IFRAME, which does background data
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My last post's 'Listening to' reminded me of something I meant to throw out a quick link to, and of course forgot to. A couple of Aussie Guys ( Cameron Reilly and Mick Stanic ) have set themselves up a podcast call ' G'Day World '. It's an interesting
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I had some complaints about how bad my blog looks in firefox. There's a few issues here. I'm not overly thrilled with how it looks at all. I'm getting there, but i'm no graphic designer. It's a work in progress. I've been tinkering for the last couple
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The current iteration of development on a project at work is code review, refactoring, cleanup, and bug fixes only. This is a nice break from hard care implementation with really tight deadlines, I must say. So over the next few days I'm looking in depth
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