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If I may, just for a moment, quote the esteemed Martin Riggs.. We're back, we're bad, you're black and I'm mad. I decided two months ago - yes, two full frickin months - that I wanted to start blogging again. It's taken this long for webhost4life to pull their fingers out of their asses and actually make the fricking site work once more ...

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 than Media Center (look carefully, there's a difference) because of one tiny thing - I ...

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 code, or are offended by graphic nudity, then don't bother reading any further. You've been ...

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. Bloody C#. I want my RAD back :)

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 the time :) When you get on a plane, you need to show your ticket the person scanning them. But ...

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. Cam Reilly first broke the news on Wednesday last week, News.com.au were quick to pick up on ...

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, in VB, the lists opens pretty damn quickly. In C#, it takes longer. And when making ...

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 optus, but that's irrelevant), and so I had to check out what it could and couldn't do. A check ...

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 of the fence that has a problem with agile. Until this morning I've found it very hard to put ...

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 is, what should it evolve into? I had a go, Dave has had a go, but there's dreams and then ...