Archive for February, 2008
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008Wait until the end...
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Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8
More medical stories
Steve Jobs. Presenting EOF, PDO, WebObjects, Excel, Windows NT 3.5
In-browser Python: Silverlight + IronPython
UK Earthquake: Facebook and Twitter broke quake news
Thursday, February 28th, 2008I am quoted in a UK article Facebook and Twitter broke quake news in Metro.co.uk
My statement on twitter 'one day, on the BBC: "reports from twitter are stating an earthquake..." one day'
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Creating in SecondLife
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Barcamp Melbourne 2008
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008On Saturday I flew to Melbourne to attend Barcamp.
Very different to the Sydney Barcamp: more FOSS people, more code.
Managed to score a 5 minute slot near the end of the day. After a long day of PHP, eee PCs, Open XML and other depthful things - and being the last official presenter before beer-o-clock (kindly [...]
A Journey That Began 10 Years ago…
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/features/2008/quark-quitting-desktop/
Wow. August 1998 I began work at Adobe. One of the things that was talked about was "K2" - a product that eventually became InDesign.
Don't know how I feel about Quark changing tack. It is interesting how the world turns.
Thanks for the link, Andrew.
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Help Dataportability.org Design a New Logo
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Chris Saad, as mentioned in yesterday's post, needs a new logo.
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The sad irony
Friday, February 22nd, 2008The day the Microsoft announces this, RedHat goes and does this.
Has the world turned upside down?
Good news and Bad news Chris. You are on the radar screen.
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Creativity++
ROI on MBA
1968
Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.
Now, LOLZ aside: Working for Microsoft
Thursday, February 21st, 2008After this excellent and funny video, many former work mates ask me what its like to work for Microsoft. The chutzpah to take time to make a video like this is in itself a testament to the cultural state of Microsoft. Well, some parts at least.
Rory Blyth, formerly of the Channel 9 team, writes what [...]
Paul Thurrott on Windows Vista SP1
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Independent review, worth the read.
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Project General Melchett: Stage 2.
Weekend Project: Windows Media Center
Toshiba Hard Disk Upgrade
iTunes, iPod Touch and Windows
Flikr, Windows Live Photo Gallery is goodness
Aeoth: Sub AU$670 Media Centre
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Paul Jenkins proves that you can make a 1080p Vista Media Center for under AU$670. That's a spectacular achievement.
Well done, dude!
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Phenom: Phew! it works
Monday, February 18th, 2008So, the project was originally quite simple. Upgrade the AMD Athlon processor to a Phenom processor.
The Gigabyte motherboard supported the AM2 socket system, therefore replacement of the processor by simple drop in and out. Oh, but computers are never that easy.
After failing to boot with constant long beeps: I decided to purchase an ASUS motherboard. [...]
