January 2005 - Posts
I forgot to mention this when the news came out the other day. Code Camp Oz is on! This is the first ever (as far as I'm aware) Aussie Code Camp to be put together. big thanks to Mitch Denny for getting the thing together (I believe he had help, people
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As I mentioned in my last post , I went to the computer markets . While I was there I picked up an extra toy, so that I could have a play with something. I've now got a microphone attached to the computer. Besides the obvious fun this leads to, like recording
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The weekend has been and gone, and it seemed to go pretty fast. I have a theory about this. No, I'm not going off on another Alien Abduction rant, so you can sit back down and stop pointing your ray gun at me. Have you ever watched Red Dwarf ? I'm going
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It's been a bit of a quiet week this week. Last weekend we went for a nice barbie at Cotter Dam . Many a good time was had, and many a damn blowfly waved away from the food. I got my birthday presents there too, and scored quite well - some books that
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I followed both Mitch and Darren down the path of evil, and scored way better than them both. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing :) I still consider 60% to be extremely low on the evilness stakes, so perhaps that's my saving grace. I
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This week I got an email from Finula Crowe (no blog, which sucks - this is an article about her getting her job :). She was letting me know that a special package was on it's way, and also telling me a secret number which was mine and mine only. Today
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Well, today's my birthday. Thankyou kindly to those who acknowledged it, especially MattyT who was the first to send his greetings :) It's funny what a little advertising can do. Cam Reilly blogged today about setting up a survey about what people want
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Of late I've noticed something really annoying on my computer at home. Generally, things work fine, but whenever I try to open IE from within Omea Reader (which I use for my RSS content) it can take a very long time for the IE window to start responding
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I was reading a post that Darren made tonight about simplifying some code by using reflection . I want to first give a disclaimer to Darren to make sure he realises right from the start that a) the sample he gave is good and clever; and b) I'm not bashing
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There's many good teleportation devices around at the moment. A couple of good examples around include those used in Star Trek and Stargate. I think it's fairly obvious, however, that they still have a way to go before they become industry standard. How
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...is that it's so much harder. I was trying to make something 'nice' today, but most of the time had the .net framework slapping me in the face. Maybe it was menstruating, I don't know, but it was sure in a bad mood with me. I was continuing along with
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I was redesigning some of my collection classes today. As always happens with iterative development, the vision we had of what was required when we started this project is slightly different to the end result. An outcome of this is that while all our
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This has nothing to do with computers or being a geek or anything. But maybe someone, somewhere might care. I updated my 'About Me' page. Yeah, I know. I suck :)
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I generally don't post results of stupid online quizzes. But I did it once recently, so now it's time to get it all out of my system. I saw a couple more quizzes to take, and so here's my results. This first one, not such a surprise. Your Dominant Intelligence
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While writing my previous entry , I ran the spell checker to catch any typos I might have made (would you believe it? I make a LOT of typos). So ieSpell is happily going through it all, fixing up my mistakes, and I ran across this little gem. Hey Mick
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Chuck has been after a bit of discussion on who he should try and get to do the keynote talk in this years Teched for Oz and New Zealand. I put in my half-hearted two cents, but it got me thinking about talkers in general, and people who could be there
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I finally gave into temptation and rated my nerdiness. I'm not a Nerd King God like some people out there, but I think it's still not a bad score. :)
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Clarke Scott wants help improving his google juice . Consider it done, dude! This post brought to you by some blatant advertising for crm software . Listening to: hyperballad - bjork - (5:21)
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Continuing on from my first Useful Life Tip , here's another handy one. Useful Life Tip #2 For all you newly married men out there, remember: good manners are extremely important. Believe me, I know. When I say to my new wife 'Cook my dinner, Bitch',
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I learned an important lesson this week. Sometimes a good way of doing things has other penalties :) In the current application we're writing, even taken over a bit of the serialization that would ordinarily be done by ASP.net when talking to/from a webservice.
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Oh dear. He's at it again. Frank Arrigo 's wife, Moira, posted on his blog that he's back in hospital . Hopefully it's nothing too serious mate! If you get bored, remember, there's always this list :) I'm sure all us geeks are thinking of you. Get well,
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The Holidays are over, and I went back to work today. It was good to get back into the thick of things again, but I've enjoyed the time off. I was a bit quiet (for me) over the break, so in a nutshell, here's the big events. I got a chest-cold-type-thing.
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Update: It's all good again. The initial blog entry I saw is back up, and the download is available again. So now I guess I can link. It was Michael Swanson :) He seems to have been the first to have mention it anywhere. w00t! I saw a blog post tonight
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In just over two weeks, I'm going to get older. In the spirit of giving bored geeks something to do, instead of saying how old I'll be, here's the math: Take 0.0692758279 away from pi, and raise it to the power of 3. Now, depending on the accuracy of
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The Ultimate Proof of why Firefox is evil!! I feel so vindicated *grin* Firefox ate my cat!
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