January 2006 - Posts
In the course of having a conversation (sorta) in the comments are of one of Mitch's recent posts , I wanted to jump to Joseph Cooney's blog for some reason (don't ask me why, I can't remember *grin*). Now, I can never remember if his blog is at jcooney.net
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Today I received my last birthday present. My two sisters had organised a very cool present, but it had to shipped over from the States (I'm guessing there, anyway). I unwrapped my present, and inside the The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection . I'm a
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We got a shot of Sam yesterday when she was a basket case. I thought it was funny, so I thought I'd post it. Now, just to be clear, I'm not guilty of just tormenting the baby. My first daughter had funny shots when she was little too :)
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I finally contacted Darren today to finalise the details for the next Canberra Geek Dinner (dum dum dum dum!) - previously announced here and here and here and here and possibly other places, who knows? He had some bad news. He's going to be out of town
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Since VS2K5 came out, slowly but surely a few starter kits have been trickling out. I think these starter kits are a neat idea, useful to experienced people and n00bs alike. Each starter kit is simply a project template that compiles and runs without
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Yesterday morning a new post appeared on the JobsBlog at Microsoft. In it, a challenge was offered to people who think they are master coders (or should that read 'hax0r coderz'?). So of course, being the geek that I am, I was very tempted to try the
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I saw a post the other day on the MSDN feed from Abhinaba , one of the guys on the Team Build part of Team System, about a bug they were hit with. It seems that if you create a directory that is slightly invalid, you'll get a folder different to what
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Here I am! Right here! Well, it's past midnight (Australian time). Happy Birthday to me. The big 30. I want me presents now dammit! :) Kudos to Mitch for reminding me (I hadn't even noticed it was now the 21st, until I read Mitch's message ) *laughs*
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And lo, as the sun did sink beneath yon horizon, andst the moon did peek quiveringly through thine clouds, the Lords on the Mountaintop of Yore didst come together and thusly spake: Lord 1: Behold, for the Canberra Geek Dinner is Nigh! Lord 2: Beware,
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Your Scholastic Strength Is Developing Ideas You can take a spark of inspiration and turn it into a full fledged concept. You are talented at brainstorming, visualizing, organizing, and independent thinking. You should major in: Natural sciences Computer
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Today I got the news from my MVP lead. I'm no longer an ASP.net MVP. Now, I know this is not the record for shortest MVP stint, for I saw abotu 2 days after the awards were given out in the last round a guy saying he had to stop being an MVP, since he'd
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Well, the today seems to be all about posting photos. Oh well :) This week I picked up another Microsoft mascot - this time a beanie MSN Butterfly. As I always do, I had to introduce it to the rest of the family. Here's the three guys checking out one
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Frank posted today that he had been playing with MyHeritage . They do facial recognition of photos, and then match the faces to celebrities. Well, I had a play. I'm not too convinced on the accuracy, but generally speaking it does pretty well at matching
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Hey Guys, Girls, and Mutants of Non-Specific Gender, I noticed that our latest addition to the CodeBetter Clan , Sam Gentile , wants everyone to subscribe to his blog via Feedburner , rather than directly. Well, this made me curious. So I checked it out.
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Maybe I'm guilty of corrupting the young and innocent, but I don't care. I mentioned in my last post how I had a package of goodies being shipped to me from the US. It arrived this week, so I've got myself a new mouse and keyboard, and an MSN butterfly
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It's Friday. I'm at work. Who really wants to do work on a Friday? Hell, for that matter, let's include Monday in that statement. And since We're not working on Fridays or Mondays, Thursday and Tuesday are the new Friday and Monday, so who really wants
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Geoff ApplebyI've seen a lot of people of people commenting about how buggy SmartNavigation is and why you don't want to use it, and I'm not disagreeing with any of them - I've never used the feature myself, but if they say so, then I believe them. However, if using View Source comes up different, what you're seeing is an IE behaviour, and has nothing to do with SmartNavigation screwing things up.
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This made me laugh, so I had to share. I was reading an article on how TypeDescriptors work (I'm pretty sure I know I a lot about them, but I wanted to compare what someone else with what I'd worked out for myself) when it referred me to the remarks section
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Today I owe a large thank you to Chuck Sterling , Andy Coates and Microsoft in general. Back in October Chuck nominated me for getting an MVP award , and today I was notified that I'd actually received it. So thanks Chuck and Andy for the support, and
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