May 2006 - Posts
Windows Error Reporting seems to have been improved in Vista. At least, it looks a lot nicer - although maybe it's just the glass stuff :) One thing they know how to do is call a spade a spade, it seems. This evening I was running a modification to my
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Over the last couple of weeks, there's a couple things that I've noticed that I thought I'd share. The first is to do with body fat, the second to do with snot. Observation #1. When Americans are overweight, they're extremely overweight. Don't get me
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I had an idea about something the guys organising Tech.Ed AU this year could do. I think it's a really good idea - but I'm guessing most other people won't really give a crap :) But in the spiritof caring and sharing, it wouldn't really be right for me
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Last week I talked about how we decided that we'd pay for a ticket for me to go to Tech.Ed afterall, only to be overcome by issues and possibly have my credit card charged twice :) Well, I forgot to post an update. When I got home from work that evening,
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I did a couple of maintenance updates to this site this morning that I'd been meaning to getting around to. First, I updated the Job frequency as defined in communityserver.config - thanks to Jayson Knight for pointing it out . The second was a security
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Oh my god. Today was FUN. Fun for a geek, anyway - and if you aren't one, what are you doing reading my blog? Today saw the powers above me giving approval for the app that we're about to start writing be written using some fairly new stuff. So today,
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I love it. Betas are so cool - so many interesting messages can occur . This one shows that to write Vista, they're using TODO-driven development :)
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Darren, on the TechTalkBlog, is after submissions of Vista Visions - simple examples of cool new stuff. Well, here's my first contribution. When you first install Vista on your computer, it might not be running quite as fast as you expected - or faster,
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Well, can you? Yup, I'm home on a Saturday night playing solitaire on my computer. Pretty Sad. But wait! Is that....? Yes - I finally found time to install Vista B2. I've been trying since it came out to find time (I already found time once, actually,
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You Are Bert Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them! You are usually feeling: Logical - you rarely let your emotions rule you You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just
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Now that I've started tracking my Tech.Ed 2006 posts, I remembered the flair competition that we had last year. Which made me realise that I haven't seen any official ones for this year yet. I checked with Frank , and he said he's sure that they're on
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Darren Neimke has been concentrating on Windows Vista lately. So much so that he's touring the country doing different Vista presentations - user groups, Innovation 2006 , lots of stuff. He's even the guest blogger on TechTalkBlogs at the moment. Since
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Well, we (myself and my wife) made a decision this week. We're going to fork out the money for me to go to Tech.Ed this year in Sydney. Normally we'd never do it - it's a fair chunk of money, and so it's generally meant that if work won't pay, then I
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You Are Beef You're big, burly, and maybe even a little stinky. And no one's going to come between you and a good steak. And you've probably never met a vegetable you like, unless fries and ketchup count. What Kind of Meat Are You?
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Having only a few hours ago posted my screenshot of the busy office , I couldn't help but post this too. I've now got home from work, and the downloads of the Vista and Office12 Beta 2s that I kicked off this morning finished successfully. So while waiting
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The whole world knows by now that Beta 2 of Office 2007 is out and available to the whole world. So I'm not going to announce it, since you already know. But I did want to post this picture. I imagine that the server load on the download site is pretty
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Register Now for Innovation 2006 , the technical training event for Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office “12”. It’s a day of in-depth training with dedicated tracks for IT managers and developers. Discover how Windows Vista and Office “12” simplify
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New movie to come soon :)
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My mother sent me this joke tonight. Sadly, before I got to the end, I'd already had the same thought to myself as what the punchline is. Two IT guys were talking in a bar after work. "Guess what," says the first IT guy, "yesterday, I met this gorgeous
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Thanks to Jayson Knight for this mod. Tidbit #5 in his series of Community Server Tidbits today linked to an old post from Scott Water about implementing a CSModule to automatically name new blog posts on submission. Read, implemented, and installed!
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Two nights ago I posted about my In-line File Uploader addition for Community Server 2.0. Over the weekend I had less time that I thought I would to keep working on it, but I did fix one fairly important problem. The way I had it written the extra tab
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Update1 [20060514]: I've updated the code with a fix for one of the bugs. The first version (and this new one) are trying to insert the extra tab in the second position, but the codebehind for CreateEditBlogPost.ascx.cs was hard coded for a specific order.
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On Tuesday Frank blogged about getting a new toy from Andy . My quest for MS Toys is starting to become pretty well known - as well as giving one to Frank, he also sent one over to me. Andrew - thanks so much! It's a bobble-head figure of Eric Rudder
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You may recall (or may not, who knows?) that a fair while ago I wrote a post in the articles section of my blog entitled ' CSS expressions in IE and Firefox (or, How to make a TBODY scroll without Javascript) '. Now that I've moved to my own server, I
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I was sent this link today. This is just any old stupid online quiz. This tests something important. Something real. Something that separates the men from the boys. It tests your ability to talk like a real Aussie. And this is important. No really! Of
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The moment it became an optional subject, I stopped enrolling in it. I guess it shows... :) You Failed 8th Grade Geography Sorry, you only got 5/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Geography?
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A-plus! You got 9/10 correct. Yep, you're smart. Are you putting that big brain to good use? This one came from Encarta - looks like I can remember a lot of stuff way back then. I do have to claim unfairness however: Some of the questions are very American
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Update [20050508]: Web Application Projects ARE Here. ScottGu provides the details . I do my best not to do posts that are just repeating news that is bound to be spamming the blogosphere everywhere , but this one is too important to pass up. ScottGu
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Me, I have no doubt :) But lately I'm seeing more and more comments from people (which is the right of every blogger out there, mind you - speaking their mind, that is) that seem to think that they won't. What's sparked me off this time? Scott Bellware
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