http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm This is impressive.
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Windows 7 Cheats and GodModes
According to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10426627-56.html, there are a whole range of special codes you can add to a folder name in Windows 7 to make a shortcut to a particular function. I’ve tried out the ones listed in the article, and here’s what they do: {00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33} – Set default location for devices such as GPS{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428} – Goes …
2009
A whole bunch of my friends do this meme every year, and I admit I usually wait till they’ve all done it before I do mine. I don’t have a specific day I try to post it on, but I think now I have my own official ‘blog’ (with advance publish options) I’ll see if …
.Net Nooks and Crannies
I really love Stack Overflow. It’s so cool to have a link to many, many great coding minds to help with the minutiae of my learning process, whether through asking a question myself or finding that someone else asked something similar months ago. The last question I asked was about public properties that should be …
Apple Bites
Just a quick update today: Apple has gone up one point in my mind. One of my big problems with them has always been that iTunes, the ambassador to the Windows world, has only offered English (United States) as a language. Not just ‘English’ with a silent ‘whoops we thought this was English’ but ‘English …
Wargame Tools – a learning program
My name is Pete, and I am a wargamer. I am also a programmer. As a programmer and huge geek, I look for ways to apply programming knowledge to my other hobbies. So it only makes sense that I would try to apply it to wargaming. Over the years, I’ve seen, used and abandoned various …
Film Autopsy – Surrogates
This film review is going to be heavy on spoilers. Move along if you’re not into that sort of thing. I will warn you to start with, I am a nit-picker of films. I will latch on to something and unravel it, and try and understand how the world of a film works. This often …
Work-Safe Stripping Models
First post on miniature wargaming! About time! I’ve noticed over the past year that this hobby is not designed for random searches on a work computer. More than once, I’ve been blocked by an internal filter from searching for sites that describe ‘paint stripping model acrylic’. It got worse when I tried to look for …
WPF for those who know WinForms
As a programmer, I am primarily self-taught. I’m at the stage now where some new technology articles I can read at the highest level and follow and understand, but others I am looking for the absolute most basic beginner’s guide around. I recently began a project in WPF to try and learn what it could …
I never realised this would become a political blog…
So, the British Nationalist Party managed to get on Question Time and almost the entire audience was wanting to ask questions about Nick Griffin’s nasty policies. I have to say that I think to anyone who sees the BNP as just another political party (whether or not they would actually vote for them), Griffin presented …
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