Ducas' Site

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 weeks. It's really helped me feel better about myself. Last time I was working from home, I ...

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 getting a chance to check out the new improvements in VS, SQL and Windows 2008. And I had a ...

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 the new features of IE8 - i.e. Activities, WebSlices and IE7 Emulation. Activities ...

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 some miss is the snippet fields. I've ensure that the fields are white on green and the ...

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 next to my desktop monitor and use the keyboard and mouse hooked up to my desktop to control ...

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 set up my own web site. When I started out, I decided using a content management system would ...

I received this email from Boost Juice Bars today. Unfortunately, they're cutting off the 10% discount for Vibe members. Very sad news...   Dear Very Important Boost Enthusiasts, Over the last few years we have been fortunate enough to give our VIBE club members a 10% discount on our range of juices and smoothies. Unfortunately due to the ...

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 from a cousin of the Roman Emperor Constantine I who had migrated to Constantinople in ...

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 audio device before I can hear the audio from my chosen media. Thinking this was just an ...

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