Nope

Date March 29th, 2011 Comment 1 Comment

I did not brandish two knives outside a nightclub. Nor did I say “‘Mon then! I’ll hae ye a’!”.

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DataGridView Flickering When Changing Background Colour

Date August 4th, 2010 Comment No Comments

Since implementing crossfading of tracks in Karaokidex, I’ve indicated the crossfading by gradually fading out the background colour of the first track’s row in the playlist DataGridView and fading in the background colour of the second track’s row. This caused a really annoying flickering. The problem is the DataGridView is not double-buffered by default, nor [...]

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Dropbox.com for ClickOnce

Date May 7th, 2010 Comment 2 Comments

I’ve recently been using Dropbox.com to keep my files in sync between home and work. I’ve also been on the hunt for a (free) site to host ClickOnce deployments. It was only in a revelation whilst I was in bed last night that I wondered if I could use Dropbox’s Public directory as the target [...]

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Beautiful

Date February 18th, 2010 Comment No Comments

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I'm A Flipper Now!

Date January 13th, 2010 Comment No Comments

I’d been looking into getting a compact video camera for a while now, and more recently since Alfie came along. I’d initially looked at the RCA EZ409HD, but after reading the disappointing reviews, I decided on the Flip Ultra HD. It’s fairly inexpensive and very easy to use, and the quality is excellent. You can [...]

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Bad Things Happen In Threes?

Date December 21st, 2009 Comment 2 Comments

We though uur indoor bunny, Sonny, had had a mild stroke, but after a visit to the vet, it appears he has a parasite or deep ear infection Alfie has caught a bad cold, and is coughing like a barking dog We had to get Rentokil in (at a cost of £174!) to deal with [...]

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Spurious Loading on Need For Speed Shift?

Date November 7th, 2009 Comment No Comments

Why does loading take so long between legs of the “Duel” events? It’s the same course and the same cars, so why does it feel like it loads everything all over again? Have they never heard of caching? </$0.02>

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X360 Media Update Requires Sign-In

Date November 5th, 2009 Comment No Comments

Why? Why do I have to be signed in to XBox Live to use a media codec? I was trying to watch a programme last night with was encoded using the ISO-MPEG4 compatible XviD codec, but I was having trouble signing in, so it wouldn’t let me. Why can’t they add it to a dashboard [...]

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Google Sync Failing with 0×85010004?

Date November 4th, 2009 Comment 1 Comment

The ActiveSync on my phone, which I’d used to sync with my Google Apps account recently began failing with the error “Your account in Microsoft Exchange Server does not have permission to synchronize with your current settings.”; code 0×85010004. Now I hadn’t changed anything, so I was a bit bemused to say the least. Today [...]

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What A Way To Go…

Date June 5th, 2009 Comment No Comments

Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room on Thursday. Thai police told the BBC a hotel maid found the 72-year-old naked in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body. [Via: BBC News]

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