Thursday January 25th, 2007
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, 1 year ago,
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Google’s CAPTCHA passes on a subliminal message about the worthiness of ‘Google Apps for Your Domain’:
Wednesday January 24th, 2007
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, 1 year ago,
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I’ve been evaluating Windows Live Onecare for several months, and on the whole I think it’s an excellent package - virus and spyware protection, enhanced firewall, performance tune-up and automated backup all in one neat package.
There are some bug-bears - I still run PCTools’ Spyware Doctor on my main development machine because I don’t think [...]
Tuesday January 23rd, 2007
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As a follow up to my previous post, I came across another problem while using Windows XP Remote Desktop Connection (aka Terminal Services) to connect to a PC at a client’s workplace.
I could connect to the VPN without a problem, but when I entered the IP address or machine name into Remote Desktop Connection and [...]
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, 1 year ago,
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I’ve recently been using a client’s VPN to work on their project from my office. When I was connected to the VPN, I noticed that my Internet access was extremely slow. I was advised that this was because my Internet traffic was now being routed via the VPN connection - not really what [...]
Thursday January 18th, 2007
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According to this post on SearchEngineWatch, the Open Directory Project - DMOZ - is accepting submissions again, after being out of action for months (see this post for the reason why - good work, AOL!)
Why is this important? Well many of the big search engines (Google, AOL, Netscape, Lycos and many others) scour DMOZ [...]
Sunday January 14th, 2007
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, 1 year ago,
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I was astounded today when I read that Microsoft’s marketing budget for Windows Vista is likely to exceed $500 million:
“This is the biggest launch in our company’s history. That’s for sure,” Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said at a presentation in New York.
Microsoft said it plans to spend “hundreds of millions” of dollars to market the [...]
Friday January 12th, 2007
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It’s sort of official: Microsoft are working on a free competitor to Google Analytics. In much the same way that Google did, Microsoft are basing their product on technology acquired from the web analytics firm DeepMetrix, purchased by Microsoft in May 2006. The analytics product is in early Alpha right now with a [...]
Thursday January 11th, 2007
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I’m in the mood for some idle speculation (as you will be able to tell from my later post).
One of the big surprises of Steve Jobs’ keynote on the new Apple iPhone was that it runs OS X. Yes, a ‘proper’ operating system (indeed, a version of Unix) on a phone. This is [...]
Tuesday January 9th, 2007
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, over 2 years ago,
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Announced today, the most wanted electronic item of 2007:
Hells yeah.
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, over 2 years ago,
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After Bill G’s announcement of Windows Home Server at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, I feel a bit gutted! I thought up this idea about eight years ago! No, really! Why didn’t I write it down..?
Oh well, what’s a few million dollars in royalties between friends? The [...]
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, over 2 years ago,
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I made another step towards launching my ISV business last week when I applied for the Microsoft Empower Programme for ISVs. The programme gives small companies access to a boatload of Microsoft software via an MSDN Premium (Visual Studio Pro) subscription and access to other resources that will be useful to me during the development [...]
Monday January 8th, 2007
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, over 2 years ago,
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So my previous post explained my reasons for blogging with Wordpress, rather than one of it’s ASP.net cousins. Now so far, I think Wordpress is great, but installing it on IIS running on Windows Server 2003 has not been without its problems.
Wordpress - as far as I can tell - was originally written, and [...]
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, over 2 years ago,
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Considering that I make a good chunk of my living writing .net code, and have spent most of the past three years writing ASP.net web sites, why am I using a PHP-based blogging tool and not an ASP.net tool?
Good question. Well, I’m all about using the best tool for the job. When I [...]
Wednesday January 3rd, 2007
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, over 2 years ago,
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Hot Tamale
I used to be a big fan of VMWare, but now (cos it’s free) I use Virtual PC. I’ve had my ups and downs with it, but now it seems like Microsoft have finally got their act together with Virtual PC 2007. After installing the RC1 release of VPC 2007, I was [...]
Saturday November 18th, 2006
From Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, over 2 years ago,
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…I got a blog. There’s so many things rattling around inside my head that I feel I must share with the world. You lucky people.
I’m up to my eyes in project work at the moment, but have about a dozen posts in the works. Stay tuned.
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