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Strangely, only a day after Mitch wrote a recent entry about Media Center [ I've just become a Media Centre junkie ], I've got something to say roughly on the same topic. I've been running a "Media Center" for 3 or 4 months now. I say "Media Center" rather
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Note: This is post is completely non-geeky, entirely personal, has no references to coding, contains only a drive-by reference to computers and the net, and links to a blog that is completely and utterly not safe for work. If you only want to read about
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Note to self: When you get sick of seeing your error list after a build showing squillions of warnings about 'missing XML comment for publicly visible missing on type...' set 'Suppress Specific Warnings' to these codes : 1591,1592,1573,1571,1570,1572.
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Over the weekend (and a little before it) a few things have annoyed me. I thought I'd list them out, simply because I've got nothing else to do while sitting on the train traveling from the airport to my folks place. They're nothing big, but it passes
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This one has been hitting a touch close to home as I've watched it happen over the last week. Tom Roberts , a Telstra employee and blogger on Telstra's public Now We Are Talking blog (a corporate blog that is allegedly 'honest'), was fired last week.
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I've figured it out. It's simple really :) At work I've been having to work in C#. And I've been playing with some CS code, which is also in C#. And I've noticed something. In VB, intellisense lists pop open as you type. It also happens in C#. On my laptop,
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While I'm staying at my parent's house, I had a look last night into what it would take to get my laptop online, while still allowing their PC to be online too. My first port of call was to check out their modem. My parents have cable internet (through
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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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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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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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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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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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Scott Bellware made a post recently entitled 'Mort or Elvis? A Question for a Bygone Era' . So far in response, I've seen a few people raving about what he had to say, and how right on the money he is. And yes, if you distill his post down to things that
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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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Since VS2K5 came out, slowly but surely a few starter kits have been trickling out. I think these starter kits are a neat idea, useful to experienced people and n00bs alike. Each starter kit is simply a project template that compiles and runs without
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