March 2006 - Posts
Your Quirk Factor: 53% You're a pretty quirky person, but you're just normal enough to hide it. Congratulations - you've fooled other people into thinking you're just like them! How Quirky Are You?
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Well, the results have started coming in of people's opinions of my Hollywood masterpiece . Frank has mentioned that I have too much time on my hands . It's not that I have too much time, honestly! It's just that sometimes I can't help but waste time
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My toy collection of Microsoft Mascots just keeps on growing. A new one arrived for me in the mail this week - and I owe Andrew Coates another huge thanks for it. Dude, keep on rocking! (He also sent me the discs with the PDC05 content - also very cool,
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You Are Bobby Brainy Ultra competitive, you will do almost anything to win. From pull ups to pool sharking, you're very talented. And while everyone is aware of your victories, they still (affectionately) consider you to be a little brat! What Brady Are
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I was watching Spicks and Specks tonight, as is my want when there's nothing else on. During the show they showed some stuff from different band's online stores. This got me thinking. A little while ago I picked up some very cool shirts for my girls .
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You Are Not Scary Everyone loves you. Isn't that sweet? How Scary Are You?
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As found on Splatt's Blog , can you work out which words are Star Wars characters and which words are Web 2.0 words ? Mick expressed his shame at getting it mostly right. Me, I'm a geek and proud. My score: 41/43. The funny part is that I recognised none
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TechTalkBlogs has been out now for about three weeks . What is TechTalkBlogs? It's an online Tech Community aggregator. It started with what looks like the contents of the AussieBloggersOPML that Frank Arrigo has been maintaining. It's a pretty good idea.
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This week a package arrived for me. I knew it was from Microsoft, because it came from the same courier. But I wasn't expecting anything this time. What could it be? Well, it seems that Robert Scoble fulfills his promises :) Last year in early August
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Your Luck Quotient: 71% You have a high luck quotient. More often than not, you've felt very lucky in your life. You may be randomly lucky, but it's probably more than that. Optimistic and open minded, you take advantage of all the luck that comes your
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I've just got home from the Security Interchange event held in Canberra this evening. I have to say, the guys put on a pretty damn good show. Each person presenting made at least one point or showed at least one thing that really caught my eyes. In order
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Geoff ApplebyI thought I'd go through an example of how to get user based settings from My.Settings displayed nicely in the propertygrid - and by nicely I mean with all the bells and whistles :) Sorry C# guys, I'm dealing with the My namespace from VB. To be fair though. My.Settings is only a small part of it. To do this, I'm going to need to pull together a few different things that I've blogged about before.
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When the Ready Launch happened last year, I was fortunate enough to meet Anthony Borton for the first time. He's a damn fine presenter, and one of Australia's biggest Team System experts. He's now touring some of Australia's capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne,
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It's the right of every blogger (tech bloggers or not) to be opinionated. Every one has some strong opinion or bias towards something, there's no escaping it. In the tech-blog world, there's always been one primary biased opinion (what I choose to call
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Of you people who have upgraded to the 2.0 framework (or played with it in anger at least) how many of you have seen this error message? Configuration system failed to initialize. This has to be the exception that annoys me the most in everything that's
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