OK, let’s do this again. As usual, I post for the first few months of the year, tail off until December and then stick up this post to justify having a blog at all. Did you enjoy this year? Aside from massive tiredness caused by the most difficult teething ever – yes, I have. I’ve done …
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It’s like ra-a-ain on your wedding day…
I think more hospitals should be self-service.
2011
Ha, well I certainly couldn’t miss a post today, could I. Not after writing a review for 2009 and 2010, anyway. I’ve noticed that most years, I get one big thing and nothing else matters. Freddy in 2008, the house in 2009, and the car in 2010. Taking into account my daughter was born this …
2011 Already? Time to Check In
Rather than repeating myself every time, I’ll just post a straight link – I’ve written a new “article” (rather, apology and statement of intent) to A Year of Frugal Gaming. Enjoy!
IE9 Beta + VS2010, and a blog-reading tip
I’ve been experimenting with IE9 beta in work recently, and been finding it annoying when I go to show someone what I’ve been working on and need to refresh a page a couple of times after running it from Visual Studio 2010 before it ‘takes’, and will display the page and work properly. I’m getting …
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2010
As promised last year, I’m going to try and post a review of the past year on the first day of the new year. This is how 2010 shapes up for me (see 2009 here). Did you enjoy this year? I did, quite a lot! Freddy stayed out of hospital almost the entire year, only …
Unimaginative film posters
I saw a poster on the side of a bus the other day, advertising the film London Boulevard. I thought it looked a bit familiar… It’s almost identical to the poster for Quantum of Solace. Man standing protectively in front of woman, looking in different directions, no background details, gun held casually by the side, …
Does anyone like spam?
I’ve just had to put CAPTCHA on the blog comments here, because of too much spam. The spam filters are fine, but there was just too much spam being added. Part of the problem was that BlogEngine.NET’s SQL provider deletes a post (!) before re-adding it, with every comment, all over again. So to add …
Family Trees and Logical Deduction
This last weekend, I got bit by the genealogy bug again. It started off as an investigation as to why my existing GEDCOM file didn’t work in a WPF demonstration app (Family.Show), and kept losing relationships. It turns out that the GEDCOM format requires a relationship (or FAM record) to specify the two people who …
Throw Away Your Television
I’ve not been a huge TV fan for a long time. So when I have to choose between paying around £150 or not watching television for a year, it’s a pretty easy choice to make. I like to have money in my pocket, and I don’t like watching television. I’m sick and tired of TV …