February 2006 Entries
What is ProjectOrigami? a wearable lifestyle
PC?
I'm currently playing around with the Office PIA
COM components to do some spreadsheet work. Trying to dynamically generate Excel Workbooks
isn't easy, so I created my own xml structure for describing the layout of a worksheet.
My libarary includes a very handy ExcelTable object which allows you to bind a datasource
to be generated.
One of the many annoying this about the Excel COM component is the ColorIndex property.
Finally I've found a website which
documents the ColorIndex numbers with their associated color.
Everyone remembers transformers, the fond memories of taking your favorite one into
school and playing with it on the playground. But they were nothing like this.
The red hot chili peppers are performing at the madjeski stadium in reading in july. Got my tickets ordered this morning.
So my summer holidays consists of reading festival and reading football stadium. Oooh
its gunna be great
Theres lots of news about
a virus/trojan for OS X 10.4. Sure it needs user interaction to install itself, but
the point being Mac boys can't say go around saying they have a secure virus/trojan
(whichever it finally gets classified as) free operating system.
One thing to notice is that '...most users were not prompted for the administrator
password before the file modifications took place.' So if you're running with
admin priveleges go create a new user without them.
Better yet wait until Apple
dumps OS X and Adopt Windows
The date
has been changed for the DDD
Day event to 3rd June.
It no longer clashes with the England World Cup match but instead with the
England
vs.
Jamaica
friendly, which isn’t as important as World Cup.
Cheers for
listening to us geek football fans guys!
You scored as SG-1 (Stargate). You are versatile and diverse in your thinking.
You have an open mind to that which seems highly unlikely and accept it with a bit
of humor. Now if only aliens would stop trying to take over your body.
SG-1 (Stargate)
88%
Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)
88%
Moya (Farscape)
81%
Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)
75%
FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)
75%
Serenity (Firefly)
69%
Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)
63%
Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)
63%
Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)
56%
Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)
56%
Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)
56%
Enterprise D (Star Trek)
56%
Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II:
which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics)
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Minority
Report style interfaces are being further developed. Check out this amazing video
The next DDD
Day falls on the same day as the
England
vs Paraguay World Cup match (10th June). I know geeks aren’t supposed to like
sport but some of us do.
Channel
9 thread: UK DDD Day
call for Speakers
Finally
someone’s doing something about
the “tying” of Apple iTunes and iPod.
With
respect to the "tying" allegations, the judge said Slattery was claiming
Apple forces people who own iPods to buy music online only from iTunes and also forces
iTunes customers to buy iPods to play the music they purchase.
Though as
usual nothing will probably happen and Apple will continue forcing iPod users to only
be able to legally get music onto their iPod via iTunes.
Via Paul
Thurrott
dasBlog
has a cool feature that lets you blog from email. Hope this has worked J
I got home from work this evening and two of my housemates were having coding issues
with their projects, both of which were schoolboy errors which a little bit of debugging
would solve. However neither housemate could fix their problems.
One was with C# code similar to below
ArrayList
al1 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList al2 = new ArrayList();
foreach (object bob in somecollection)
{
al2.Clear();
al2.Add(bob);
al1.Add(al2);
}
>
He couldn't figure out why each item in al1 always contained the same values.
What was happening was each time the foreach loop looped al2 kept the same reference
to memory, but always cleared its contents so the final value of al2 always contained
the last bob in...
I've still got some Windows Live Messenger invites available, 5 to be exact. Leave
a comment to recieve one (remember your email address)
Thats probably why my brothers girlfriend wouldn't let him buy my spare xbox360, she'd
never escape the clutches of Football
Manager
via Kotaku
They are full of crap.
When I buy a PC I don't want it to come bundled with x-amount of crap I'm going
to have to spend time to uninstall, I want a fresh clean system. If you must give
me the software give it on an extra CD so I can choose if I want it installed myself.
I was lucky, originally when I brought my TabletPC I was expecting lots of preinstalled
'extras' included, as I'd read about from people who'd brought it in the states, but
none was included.
I'm really liking dasBlog, it's amazingly easy to configure compared to Community
Server and the themes are excellent. Took me a while but I decided on Project84.
Thanks to some code posted
by ScottH porting my previous posts from CS was ridiculously easy. All thats needed
is to get hold of my old posts on theSpoke and every
post I've made will all be under one roof.
Well I've moved blog engine yet again, this time to dasBlog. I'll be moving the old
entries over at some point. Community Server was overkill for a one man blog.
Go Seahawks. Always have to go for the underdogs
On Friday I finally completed COD2 on the Xbox360, and sold my spare 360 (how many
people can say they had a spare 360 within 2months of the launch?) to someone at work.
COD2 is a great game, the graphics are stunning (especially the smoke effects) and
the sound effects make it seem ever so real. I just wish the game took a bit
longer to complete. Now I'm making my way through it on Veteran difficulty to
help rack up my gamerpoints on Xbox Live.