September 2006 - Posts
Snap , Frank :) Your Taste in Music: 90's Alternative: Highest Influence 90's Rock: Highest Influence Hair Bands: Highest Influence Heavy Metal: Highest Influence 80's Alternative: High Influence How's Your Taste in Music?
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No, not really. But it's been ages since I hopped up on my soapbox about the whole agile thing (I think I've relaxed a bit since migrating from CodeBetter to CrankyGoblin . Probably the fact that I unsubscribed from CodeBetter :) I still sit on the side
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Well, I knew it would happen. Last night I fired up Kingdom Hearts 2 somewhere between 8 and 8.30. I turned it off so that I could go to bed at 1 o'clock this morning. My thumbs hurt, my neck hurts, and I'm tired. Man, is it worth it though. This game
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I'm now heading home from my trip out today. It's probably no big deal for most of you, but to me it's been a strange experience - almost reliving my high school days. I also picked up today a set of earphones - listening to music is a hell of lot more
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I think I know how it feels to be female today. I wear my geek shirts with pride - I have one that says 'Geek', one that says 'I'm blogging this', and as of Monday I now have this one that says 'The first rule of Computer Club: You do not talk about Computer
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1) Unlike back in high school, bus drivers these days are friendly. Ask them for help figuring out how to pay for your ride, and they're happy to help. I can remember 12-15 years ago that you only had to blink for the driver to get pissed off. Maybe it
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I think I can really get to like this virtual office lifestyle. This morning I'm sitting at a bus stop waiting for my bus to arrive. I was going to be spending my day at home finishing off a prototype to prove that you can execute windows powershell scripts
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The flight home tonight was pretty standard. Security was a pain in the ass, but that's nothing new. Virgin planes are really cramped and uncomfortable, especially for the larger gentleman, but that's nothing new. I succumbed and bought an outrageously
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One thing I forgot to mention before . I'm a Canberran. For those that don't know, Canberra might be the capital of Australia, but it's quite a small city. There's not many people compared to Sydney and Melbourne, and it's a very spread out place with
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Remmegmbere to tuern on the automatic splallchecker so that it autmatically does a spell check boefore I publish nwe posts!@!!!
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That's probably not really a word, but it should be. Today I'm at induction - basically it's a chance to finish off doing all the little crappy things that you don't want to do, like write a bio and work out what phone to get, and learn about how the
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I'm about to head off to the airport to take a flight to Melbourne. The afternoon will be spent sitting in Dad's office with my laptop, happily coding away until it's time to follow him home after work. The only pain is going to be the lack of internet
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Update: If you're looking at this post through my blog rather through a blog reader, you might have noticed that you're only seeing the left hand side of this comic. Sorry about that - I keep forgetting that the skin for my blog is fixed width, and anything
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After creating my 'Blog This' addon, I actually found a reason to use it! jfo has put together an awesome WPF reference - written from the perspective of someone that already knows winforms. Works for me - highly recommended! Link to jfo's coding : Getting
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In 6 days I'll probably be going dark for a while. I'm even considering taking time off work for a few weeks, although that's probably not very likely. I also can't really afford it. Tempting though... Why? In 6 days (the 28th of September, Australian
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I made a discovery today. It's probably not big news, and everyone but me probably knew it already, but it was news to me. Athena, Canberra's fantastic user group leader, has a blog . Anyway, in the course of browsing around her stuff, I stumbled across
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For the last few weeks I've been missing something that's quite important to me. My memory stick. The last time I can remember seeing it was when I was packing for TechEd - I'm pretty sure I decided to bring it, just in case. It ended up that I didn't
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I decided to write myself a 'Blog This' extension for Live Writer for Internet Explorer. Why? I hear you asking - that functionality is already around, right? Yup - it is. It comes out of the box with the Windows Live Toolbar. And there is no way in hell
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Dave Lemphers has been talking about chess , and Darren came in on the discussion too with some comments of buckets. It's all about dealing with information overload. When you've got to deal with a whole lot of information at once, unless you can generalise
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You Are Incredibly Logical Move over Spock - you're the new master of logic You think rationally, clearly, and quickly. A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer! How Logical Are You?
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OK, I admit it. I've been suckered into using this thing permanently now :) It's easier than waiting for the web page to load, run quickly, publishes quickly, and it's simple to use. The main point to my post though is plugins. I haven't hunted for heaps
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The Elmo TMX is the next generation of the Tickle Me Elmo. As a father of young children, I've seen all the different Elmos come and go, and they've all been fun enough for the kids but annoying for the adults :) The details of this new one have been
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Sorry about the title, I'm just jumping on the stupid Web 2.0 band wagon :) Dave Lemphers posted recently about the growing pains of TechEd (at least, TechEd AU). As I've talked about before , I really do think that TechEd needs a facelift. The thing
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I'm spending the day sitting on the back verandah again while I'm working. I have to say - this is really a nice way to spend the day. It's warm (but not hey yet, although once the afternoon kicks in and the sun moves aroudn to shine on me it might be
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I've been manfully trying to resist giving Windows Live Writer a try. I don't know why, but I just didn't want to see if it was even any good - probably because I haven't liked any other client I've tried. But to be fair - it's actually not too bad. The
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I've finished the upgrade to Community Server 2.1 and had it running stably for a couple of weeks now. I've had a chance to use it in anger instead of just dicking around on my local machine checking out the new stuff. And I've compiled my
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I think my life is complete now. For the first time ever, I've got more than one computer running at home. Instead of going around to a friends place tonight like we normally do, we decided to have a quiet night in - especially good now that the inlaws
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Not as goood as Frank ...but then, I'm not as old as Frank either :) You Scored 70% Correct You are a solid child of the 80s You'd never confuse Tiffany from Debbie And while you may not know Prince's first #1 hit You know every word to Little
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It seems I started something yesterday :) I linked to Sandi's IQ test results...and now, perhaps, a war has started. Today she's done the nerd quiz . She's right - of course I can beat her at that one! I did the nerd quiz in January of 2005.
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Darren recently made himself a Live Gadget that keep track of the AFL football ladder. This is cool - it's about time some real Aussie content started appearing - of course, I don't think I'm a typical Aussie, because football really doesn't
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I'm a sucker for an IQ quiz, especially because internet ones are completely skewed and useless :) I saw this one on Sandi's blog , and wanted to prove myself smarter. While I'm at it, I did another stupid quiz too. Your Personality Cluster
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Adjusting to working from home is a strange experience. In the last couple of weeks I've been getting used to it, although it still freaks me out that when I finish for the day I only have to walk to the next room to sit down on the couch and watch
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Your English Skills: Grammar: 100% Punctuation: 100% Spelling: 100% Vocabulary: 100% Does Your English Cut the Mustard?
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Early this week Steve Irwin died . I watched how fast it spread around the blogosphere - it was pretty amazing actually. Today Peter Brock died while racing. It's strange - the news seems to be spreading a lot slower this time. Maybe because it's
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The assimilation was completed today . First I got my shirts with the Readify logo badged on them. Then I got my laptop, with Readify logo splashed across it. Eariler today my mobile was ported to the Readify company plan. And now what appeared in the
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I've just got home from spending the night at a sleep clinic. I have to say, I'm a bit tired now - sort of. For a while now (read: pretty much since we met almost 6 years ago) my wife has complaining that I snore too loud and that I stop breathing
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As I alluded to in my last post , I'm building a new computer this week. The bits did indeed arrive (yesterday) and I've used up quite a lot of my spare time putting it together and installing it. First, here's the hardware that I put together:
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Week 2 at Readifiy is going well so far. I actually checked some code into the company TFS repository yesterday and today, which is quite neat - so far I haven't heard too many complaints :) But more importantly this week is toy week. Yesterday my
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Wow. That was painless. The upgrade to CS 2.1 is done. Kudos to: The guys at Telligent for making the upgrade path so easy. The guys at Telligent for fixing enough bugs that I only had to patch in half my changes from version 2.0 (those were legit changes,
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Well, it's been a couple of hours since I said I might get the upgrade to CS 2.1 done over the next couple of weeks. Then I started looking at what I'd need to do to merge in my old changes with the new code base. Luckily, I've already been documenting
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I finally found some time over the weekend to start looking at how the upgrade to Community Server 2.1 will go for CrankyGoblin . So far (on my local machine) I've upgraded a copy of my database and pointed a fresh 2.1 install at it, and it's all looking
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