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Public Class GeoffAppleby

Inherits Microsoft.VisualBasic.MVP : Implements IBrainFart

January 2007 - Posts

CrankyGoblin Update
I've been building a new version of CrankyGoblin. Having successfully lost the source to the ole Goblin, I've got start again from scratch. The interesting thing is this time I've got it running on Vista with IIS7. So I've downloaded the latest version Read More...
I need a new host
Things have been flaky on CrankyGoblin for a while. Some of it has been my fault (dodgy code uploaded to the server :) but a lot had also been flakiness on the part of my provider. I really like having my own web server. I can upload whatever I want (within Read More...
Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception. (WSS v3.0)
I had a problem at work yesterday. We were trying to get WSS v3.0 installed onto a server, and it just wouldn't take. I finally got it working though, with no thanks to google, so I thought I'd blog it in case anyone else hits the same problem. First, Read More...
One of my favourite songs - now with video!
I honestly don't know why I never thought of this before... One of my favourite songs ever is a song from the Animaniacs, Wakko's America, where Wakko sings all 50 US States and their capitals in a song. It me ages to track down an mp3 of it a couple Read More...
Double Tagged by the 5 Things Meme
The 5 Things meme has been around for a week or two now, which I've been happily avoiding - and now I've been tagged twice in the same day! Thanks (well, blame :) goes to Anthony Borton and Dave Burke . And so - 5 Things You Don't Know About Me . My father Read More...
Happy New Year, I'm a Limp Wrist!
Happy New Year everyone :) For the last couple of months my hand has been sore. Getting pins and needles in it a lot. I carry something (anything - even something really light) and my whole hand goes numb. Over the last week I've started getting shooting Read More...