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 …

.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 …

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 …

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 …