I’ve just had one of my regular el-cheapo holidays to visit family. They even bought a new bed for us to sleep on while we were there, since Fred is now in a ‘big boys’ bed. Most of the week was spent relaxing – we drove past a beach, potty trained the little guy (mostly …
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Resolutions for 2011
Wow, 2011. When did that happen? Probably sometime around the end of December, it’s usually that time of year. With Christmas all wrapped up (ahaha), I can turn to the new year, and think about my resolutions. I was pleased with the progress last year even though I did slow down a bit in the …
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!
Three-car pileup whilst waiting in traffic…
I was involved in my first car accident as a driver last week. It was a bit of a shock, and I’m glad to say that no-one was hurt and the car wasn’t too badly damaged. I was in traffic, sat waiting behind a car that wanted to change into a very busy lane. The …
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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 …
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 …
Validation and self-worth!
I had an answer accepted as the answer on Stack Overflow! I answered this question absolutely ages ago, not expecting it to go anywhere (the question had already been answered, but I felt it was a valid, different approach) but slowly, over the months, it’s been up-voted (until, I am pleased to say, it had …