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This week I've got the "luxury" of working from home. After my last 1-2 week stint of this back in March, I've decided to tackle things a little differently. Firstly, I'm not breaking my routine! I've been going to the gym every morning for the past 7
I'm famous: http://blogs.technet.com/itproaustralia/archive/2008/03/06/technet-vodcast-of-the-sydney-heroes-happen-2008-event.aspx Watch out for the good looking guy at the end... :-p I had a great time the other day at the launch event. It was great
I managed to download and install IE8 today, after hearing it was available from the Microsoft web site. The overall setup experience was quite painless, and it managed to keep all my settings from IE7. The first page that loads after installing introduces
Scott Hanselman posted about some cool Visual Studio themes so I thought I'd put mine out there. As you can see, it's the simple white-on-black. It uses blue class names, purple strings, orange key words, and yellow highlighting. One of the things that
I was considering getting a KVM the other day, but stumbled across an open source application named Synergy . It's a pretty nifty little app that lets you share a keyboard and mouse across two or more machines. This means that I can have my laptop sitting
It seems to be a growing trend to decentralise your online services nowadays. In particular, everyone is moving away from these self-hosted environments and moving towards popular services such as Flickr and Wordpress , and Live Spaces . I've only recently
I received this email from Boost Juice Bars today. Unfortunately, they're cutting off the 10% discount for Vibe members. Very sad news... Dear V ery I mportant B oost E nthusiasts, Over the last few years we have been fortunate enough to give our VIBE
For those of you who've heard/read my name and wondered about its origins, Wikipedia has a little entry on it - Doukas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Here are a couple of extracts... "Doukas or Ducas is the name of a Byzantine family allegedly descended
As a recent purchaser of a set of bluetooth headphones, I frequently run into the situation of loading a media file before realising that the wrong default audio device is selected. As a result, I've had to shut down IE or WMP in order to change the default
Pure gold! Thanks Paul . Technorati Tags: Random
The Zune is starting to look like a version 2 product. Check out the video here... Zune 2 bits and pieces, plus an in-depth interface video - Engadget Technorati Tags: Zune
Thanks Andrew Matthews for pointing me to this one. I also knew I was a nerd, but not this bad... Technorati Tags: Random
This is nuts. I've never been able to watch someone play tetris for 6 minutes straight until today. I found this on Larry Osterman's blog. I was impressed in the first 10 seconds, but thought it started to trail a bit after 2 minutes. But once it hit
D'oh! This would have been fun... RestartManager in VS 2008 Oh well, there's always version 2. :) Technorati Tags: random , readify