Michael S. Clark

Everyone say a big hello to Alfie, our new addition! He was born on 9th April 2009 at 14:26, and weighed 6lb 10oz. Laura and Alfie are both doing fine. I’ve posted some photos on http://picasaweb.google.com/www.ne0ge0.com/Alfie

I changed some of my “default” software (the applications I install on my vanilla Windows) recently, based on the previous post. TextPad out; NotePad++ in. TextPad is proprietary, NotePad++ is freeware (this seems to be a theme), and TextPad doesn’t seem to be updated very frequently Paint Shop Pro out; GIMP in. When PSP was [...]

I recently purchased a small funky rubber USB flash drive from Integral with a view to making it a platform for storing portable applications, i.e., applications that can be executed directly from the drive without installing anything on the host machine. This is especially useful for anti-malware and browser or email apps. Here’s a few [...]

I’ve just found my house and car on Google Maps Street View! They said they’d done Dundee, but I didn’t realise that meant the whole of Dundee and Angus too. w00t!

We both got a bit fed up about having to keep the recycling box that Angus Council provide in the house, so I decided to build a outside recycling cupboard. It also stores the cardboard recycling box too. There was a bit of an issue with the front doors expanding during the week of heavy [...]

I’ve joined Twitter and add a feed widget.

Here is the 20 week scan of our child. He’s certainly very active. This is about the only photo they could get without him turning over. Anyway he’s due on the 29th March next year.

It’s about time that I told everyone. Laura is expecting our first child on the 29th of March next year, and I can’t wait. It will be the first grandchild on both sides of the family, too.

Thanks to Songbird Karaoke who were on at the Commercial Inn in Arbroath. This is me singing “Two Princes” by the Spin Doctors.

I’ve been playing about with a multi-threaded download manager for RapidShare in C# for a while now and I was looking around for better version control than a Windows Briefcase directory. Since this is a personal project, I didn’t want to use our SVN code repository at Computa, so I had a look at Google [...]