Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Image via Wikipedia I’ve just tried to order my son a new LG Cookie for Christmas from the Carphone Warehouse. Tried being the operative word here. I’m absolutely amazed at how we’re still struggling to get the whole on line ordering experience right. ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Where did that whole designer stereotype come from? I was amazed to see that it’s still alive and kicking when this pair of black turtleneck sweaters dropped into my inbox! When I was heavily involved in the games industry, you could spot a designer a mile away. Strangely enough ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Ok, my bad. I've been real busy at work WPF is really soaking up all my time right now. That's actually a good thing, anything that forces more WPF into my head can't be a bad thing. On an alternate note I've solved the iPod software problem. I've ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
How one earth did that happen? Someone has to be messing with my stats! I didn't think this muck was that interesting. Really. See, my wife is wrong when she says I have no friends. Do virtual friends count? :)
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
I've had the slow download problem for over 2 years now, and finally managed to fix it tonight. Fair enough, the upgrade to the latest firmware may have helped, but i was still getting less than 2Kbytes a second with the defaults. After fiddling with port forwarding ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Just thought I'd let anyone having the same problems as me know how I ended up solving them! Basically it appears that there are a couple of updates available on Windows update that are marked as optional, but which turn out to be not-so-optional... the cuplrits ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Well, not how I'd have phrased it but still. Sounds more like a Nigerian 419. But still........ I'VE WON AN iPod! Yup. Really. An iPod!! I submitted an idea into a program we have here @ EDS, and the best ideas are chosen and then awarded a ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
What a show. The man is simply amazing, magic or psychology, it doesn't really matter, the end result is both stunning and completely mystifying. Some of the show was obvious trickery like the levitating spirit table), but in my opinion that didn't detract at all, in fact, I think ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I noticed today that Joel Spolsky had written an entry about how complicated the Word binary formats are now that Microsoft has finally released the full binary file formats. He notes that the spec is a whopping 349 pages, and you have to digest another 9 if you're interested in ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Wow, what a film. JJ Abrams - the boy done good. To do this film justice you need to see it on a screen as large as possible, but more importantly, the sound system needs to be capable of shaking you from your seat or you just won't be getting ...
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