Sheer awesomeness. The bug that bricked all those 30GB Zunes on 31st December 2008 was an infinite loop. […]
READ MOREI just got back to my main desktop, only to find the Norton Security Scan running with a scanning window showing. Fair enough you might say, except that I'd uninstalled it 2 days ago. WTF? […]
READ MOREAlthough I love using Windows Live Writer (WLW) to write blog posts here and at work, one of the problems I've had with it is that, out of the box, it's mostly geared to what you might call "simple" posts. Normal text, bold, italics, underline, bullets, numbered lists, tables, images: no sweat. Words or phrases marked with <code> not at all, and that's something I tend to use a lot of when writing a "technical" blog post. A quotation with <blockquote>? Nah, sorry. […]
...And mine arrived this afternoon. Just stunningly beautiful, and the picture does it no justice whatsoever. You have to hold one in your hands, weigh its heft, feel the clicks as you wind the handle, peer at the little digits. […]
READ MORENope, but, boy, was it a coincidence! I use Scott Watermasysk's Graffiti Plug-in library to add Twitter notifications when I add new posts to this blog. Well, the weekend before last, I upgraded to Graffiti CMS 1.2 and blogged about it. The plug-in duly tweeted it. No problem. […]
READ MOREIn my latest article for PCPlus, I had to replicate an equation with several clauses, like this one from Wikipedia: […]
READ MOREIf you follow me on Twitter, you'll know I've been costing up what it would take to become an iPhone developer (especially given my penchant for Windows PCs and development and hence no Apple hardware). I've got a vague idea for an app, but then realize I'm just not thinking along the right lines... […]
READ MOREBack at PDC this year in LA, the attendees got a pre-CTP of Windows 7. Finally, I found the time to install it on my little Dell XPS M1210, using the disk I'd been using as a trash disk for my wife's PC during its travails. […]
READ MOREA minor but quick change: I've included the ability for comments to show an avatar. Essentially sign up at gravatar.com, upload an image that "represents" you, and it'll then appear here if you comment. […]
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