August 2005 - Posts
About 10 minutes ago I just finished reading a new post on the IE Blog . They describe the way in which the BASE tag has been incorrectly implemented in IE for the last few versions, and that in IE7 it's finally going to be done the right way - only allowed
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Ooh, I feel good. I did a stupid online quiz, and I didn't get the link from Frank ! I got it from my sister this time. w00t! Ooh, I feel bad. I still couldn't help but fill the damn thing in :) Modern, Cool Nerd 56 % Nerd, 86% Geek, 21% Dork For The
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Over the last few days I've groaned sympathetically with Frank as he's described his failing hard drive woes. But I should have known. It almost happened to me. *sigh* As I said a couple of days ago, I got me a new hard drive with oodles of space . It's
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I splurged a little bit yesterday. I'm now the proud owner of some more RAM and a larger hard drive. I've spent the last couple of years with half a gig and 40 gig (you can work out which is which, I'm sure). Now all up I've got one and a half, and 240.
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A week or two ago I wrote a little rant about how we're having trouble finding a suitable contractor to do some work for us. During the rant, I mentioned one of the questions I asked to get a feel for how much knowledge the interviewees had. What's the
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I was playing today with a feature I was sorta considering implementing. I wanted to implement it in a common base class, but that actually wasn't possible in this case - I really don't my guys at work to modify autogenerated classes (the code spat out
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I always thought that private member fields in a class were instance based. I was looking for some interesting reading the other night while sitting around at work waiting for something to go wrong with an upgrade that was being rolled out (at which point
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I've done it. They're gone. I'm subscribed to a fair few blogs, which I enjoy reading immensely (most of the time). But lately there's been a couple of feeds which just get on my nerves, and I figured it was time to do something about it. As a result,
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You Are 70% Weird You're so weird, you think you're *totally* normal. Right? But you wig out even the biggest of circus freaks! How Weird Are You? Your Outrageous Name Is Homer Sexual Outrageous Name Generator
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This is more a note to myself, but you're welcome to remember this tip for yourself. I read about this last month on someones blog (the solution to this problem) but buggered if I could find it now that I need to remember what to do again. Each month
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If you post a quiz , I can't help it! Your Musical Tastes Match: Nicole Kidman See her whole playlist here (iTunes required) What Celebrity Matches Your Taste in Music?
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Our hunt at work for a good enough geek continues . Now that I'm back at work, I've finally been able to talk to the right person to have a look at the job description that was sent out to the contracting agencies, so that I could see what it was we were
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About 6 months ago at work we needed to write a service that could send automated emails - specifically ones that had documents attached to them. I was extremely disappointed at the time (and still am) that the stuff provided to us in the framework (System.Web.Mail)
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The last couple of weeks have been quite pleasant. Not much sleep going on, but pleasant. As of today, I'm now back at work. I'm not sure if I missed it or not :) Things appear to have gone relatively smoothly while I've been gone - I only had about 3
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Where have all the geeks gone? I know they exist - I am one, and I talk to people like me. They're abundant online - just see places like CodeBetter (of course), weblogs.asp.net, geekswithblogs, devauthority. I'm not even that special in Australia - the
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Today is my 1st Blorthday (blog-birthday) - exactly one year ago today I made my first post on my blog. Looking back through, I've written myself a whole lot of crap, but I think there's some good nuggets scattered through there as well. Pretty soon I
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