January 2007 Entries
...let's break lukes tablet for shits and giggles.
The screens gone. I either get red lines, as seen above, or blue lines (when the background
is white). The great thing tho is if I move a Aero Glass window over a screwed up
area it looks perfect :) glass rocks. Now how to turn the whole screen to be glass?
Oh well, I'll have to contact toshiba tomorrow about getting it fixed. Luckily it's
under warranty still (fingers crossed).
So I've been using Vista RTM for 2months now and on the day its released to the hordes
I have to stop using it. I hope...
I'm looking for a web based newsgroup reader, so no matter what computer I'm on I
have access to what I've marked as interest and what I've replied to. Currently I'm
using Windows
Live Mail Desktop, I have used MS Outlook in the past and a NNTP
plugin for Office Outlook.
Google groups works great with the one exception,
if I post something then my email address gets exposed to the WWW and I can't seem
to find a way to edit it so add the usual 'NOSPAM' text, which I'm sure is a pointless
effort as spammers probably parse the addresses to remove this. I just made...
I've been getting shitloads of traffic to my blog lately from msn
search. Last year I blogged about
'superbowl sunday', and since that time of year must be almost upon us (i have no
idea when it is) people must be googling for it.
It turns out its because everytime I get a visit to my blog, the referreral webpage
is logged and listed. After the first person searched for Superbowl
sunday 2007 it got listed. The search engine picked up on this and boosted me
higher in their list which caused more people to see my post and those referral links
to be stored.
As a result I...
I blogged about
wanting a Nabaztag a while back. we got one
in our office the other week. It reads notifies
us when someone joins the portal, purchases stuff and you can even send
it a message to read out.
I worked on a managed api in the evenings to wrap up the one provided by
Violet, so messages could be constructed easily and sent.
And i'm pleased to announce I have made it Open Source. I wanted to get it put under
source control and the cheapest way is to open source it, as then you can use one
of the many free source control
hosts. I went with Microsoft's...
Graham Bell briefly showed SportsDo on tv the
other day. Check out his camera run from Val D'Isere.
I doubt I'll be going as fast as him
in 2 weeks when I'm there.
ASP.NET provides a great feature, code behind files, where the high level language
(C#/VB.NET) can sit in a separate file to the UI markup of the page.
But what about Javascript? Well you create a javascript file and shove it in a folder,
I tend to use /scripts, and then add a script include reference to it, or put the
javascript within the HTML page. The problem with putting it in an external file
is you can't use <%= control.UniqueID %> to get the ID of a control
on that page after its rendered (you would have to 'hardcode' that id). If the javascript
is with the HTML you can use...
I'm trying to find out why when right clicking on an image and selecting 'Save Picture
As...' causes the following error message in IE7
Could not complete the operation due to error 800700de.
Theres not much on google but
a few people have the same problem.
One forum post
reply solved my problem tho...it's M$ and their DRM/e Ultimate Edition 2007 SP4
DRM
You cannot copy an image if you haven't downloaded license for it from m$
This is a neat Media
Center Remote. It has gyration technology allowing the couch potato to move the
cursor on their Vista Media Center PC.
All it needs extra is to be a Windows
Visa SideShow Remote!
I'm shattered, I stayed up like a good geek and watched Bill Gates CES (Consumer Electronics
Show) Keynote. The keynote being at 6:30pm Pacific time making it 2:30am my time.
A few cool things I can't wait for from the keynote:
Windows Ultimate Extras - well mainly just
the one makes me go 'ooo' and I like things which make me go 'ooo'. Windows DreamScene allows
you to play a high-def video (mpeg or wmv) as your desktop background. During
the keynote the background was a pretty high def image of a waterfall. Then the presenter
enabled DreamScene and
the background came to life with flowing water 'ooo'. It will probably...