June 2006 - Posts
Since Office 2007 Beta 2 came out, one thing that pops up now and again in the blogosphere is that you can now write blog posts directly from Word 2007. I haven't bothered to try it yet, mostly because I'm not much of a Word (or Office) user - and I'm
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This morning Darren retired from being the guest blogger on TechTalkBlogs . Under his reign, many a thing Vista was pushed, poked, prodded, and presented. He did a great job (ok, so he linked to me a few times, I'm a sucker for free advertisements, but
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You may recall that a little while back I created myself some Tech.Ed flair. Well, Frank announced last night that there's finally some official ones to play with . Having seen the 'real' ones, I figured I needed to make just one more - something just
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I really like the new CommandLink control that exists in Vista. Actually, it's not a new control - it's just a new style on the button control, but it still looks damn nice. The app we're currently writing at work is being written with with a series of
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You Are Beer! You don't need to get totally wasted when you hit the bars. More of a social drinker, you just like to have fun with your friends. And as long as the beer keeps flowing, you're a happy camper. But don't mix things up: "Beer Before Liquor,
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I bought a new TShirt. Since it arrived, I've been wearing it with pride. What's really sad is that the first time I wore it to work, I got a couple of looks, but nothing was said. When I asked, they just said 'Well, yeah, it's right'. :)
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The esteemed Sahil Malik is doing an all day ADO.net 2.0 boot camp on the 21st of July. Sahil acts like he knows everything - and the problem is, he generally does - especially when it comes to ADO. If you live in the states (ok, so it's a big place -
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On Friday night I went out to a poker night with a few of the guys from work. It was a good night - lots of beer, pizza, and betting. And being the crap players that we were, we didn't bet with real money, just chips. Plenty of swearing though. One of
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You Are 10% Redneck I'll slap you so hard, your clothes will be outta style. You ain't no redneck - you're all Yankee! How Redneck Are You?
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You Are 52% Gross You're more than a little gross, but probably no more gross than the average person. Maybe it's time to drop some of those disgusting habits that could eventually embarrass you! How Gross Are You?
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I was going to do this anyway, but since Mitch beat me to it , I might as well at least copy his title :) Michael Kleef has posted up the current version of the full session list for Tech.Ed AU 2006, so I guess it's time to start whittling down the list.
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Innovation 2006 was on in Canberra today. It's was the first one of three, but there really weren't any teething issues - smooth, polished, and very enjoyable. Basically my day can be summed up by saying that I spent the day listening to talks from Chuck
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Well, Rob hinted it at it . Then he hinted more . And even more . Then Soma announced it . Then Rob was allowed to talk about it . And now Frank has even blogged it too :) The MSDN Wiki . I'm excited. MS have put up a version of the MSDN documentation
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I put a new skin on my blog today. I grabbed the FoggyValley skin by DotNetMonster , which was linked to the other day in the Community Server Daily News . After a couple of false starts (in which I reported a couple of bugs with the skin :) and then
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For the last couple of weeks I've been playing with WCF, Windows Workflow, and other stuff while putting together a new app that we need. It's been a steep learning curve - trying to keep things familiar (as in, the other guys on the team will still be
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I've been running Vista B2 as my primary OS for about 10 days now. I'm still deciding whether to activate it on day 14 or not - little things are getting in my road and pissing me off no end :) Some are forgivable, and things you'd expect from a beta
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I got a package in the mail today - and I owe Bryan Baker another huge thanks. And so, as of this morning, I have... w00t! I'm really going to have to put my movie maker's hat on soon :)
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Your Bumper Sticker Should Be Ass, gas, or grass - no one rides for free What Bumper Sticker Should Be On Your Car?
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I realised through the week that my RSS feed didn't include an image within the channel definition - and so I decided that I needed to do something about it :) After researching what was needed to get an image into a feed (this is at the top of the feed,
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Yes, I know this is more than 6 months old now, but lately I've been doing a lot of reinstalling and setting up of new logins on other people's computers - and so I have to google search again and again to find the damn download and install instructions.
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You Are 48% Cynical Yes, you are cynical, but more than anything, you're a realist. You see what's screwed up in the world, but you also take time to remember what's right. How Cynical Are You? Your Penis Name Is... Shag Stick Penis Name Generator
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