Save Journeyman
Journeyman is a new show for NBC this year, airing Monday nights at 10:00, after Heroes. It’s about, Dan Vasser (Kevin McKidd, Rome), a reporter for the San…
writing
posts 101–125 of 140
2007
"sudo" for Windows Vista
If you’ve ever administered a UN*X box before, you’ll know that you should never log in as root, but rather log in as a normal unprivileged user and use sudo…
An update on Zemobo
The reason I came back to New Zealand was to work on my own business, Zemobo. At the time, Zemobo was going to be an event-based social network. While I had…
Stuff that nobody else seems to have noticed about TV
Two things that I noticed and searched on the web for to see if anyone else noticed (and found nothing). Spoilers to follow for those who aren’t up to date…
Death Proof
I’m having a field day with writing stuff today aren’t I? I’ve obviously got nothing to do, or something else to do that I don’t want to do. I saw Quentin…
I like LINQ
LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query, a new feature of the .NET Framework 3.5. And it’s cool. I have used LINQ to SQL on the My Flatmates Facebook…
It's been a while
That’s the name of a song, isn’t it? I have been neglecting this blog for a while now, so I thought I’d write something new. Here is a bit of an update of what…
Political bandwagon
Soon the media won’t be able take the piss out of politicians. That’s a bit of a broad statement but that’s what they’re saying. Currently media can’t take…
Windows Live Writer
Have you heard of this? Well, I just found out about it. It’s quite cool. It’s a client for blogging, and you can even use it for Blogger blogs. It seems…
Google Live Search?
Ever done a search for “search” on Google?
It turns out my theory was wrong
Hardly anybody turned up here after I wrote my little news report. So I am a little sad about that. Never mind. I don’t really have anything else to talk about…
Ctrl+Shift+Q
I haven’t said anything useful for a while. And this is no different. I just noticed that when you type Ctrl+Shift+Q in Word 2007, it changes the selection to…
News update
As I just said, whenever I write about news, my visits spike. And often there is a corresponding increase in ad clicks. So I will write about some stuff in the…
IIS7 on Vista and languages
I installed IIS on Vista the other day, but haven’t done anything with it yet. But today I was visiting a poorly configured site that redirected to localhost…
Zemobo
What is Zemobo? It’s something new and exciting that I’m working on, and I’ll be sharing more about it with you here. A bit cryptic, I know, but good things…
I’m back!
Hello. I am back in New Zealand now. Got back on Thursday morning. That’s all I have to say about that for the time being.
Election results
I just wrote a whole lot and then Internet Explorer crashed because the Flash plugin crashed. That was annoying. I got a screenshot of most of it though…
Teaching life skills via… The O.C.
That might sound like a strange title, but it’s what’s happening on France 2 in twenty minutes. They are showing Newport Beach (as it’s called in French) every…
Election day in France
Today is the first round in the French presidential election. A candidate has to get a majority (i.e. > 50%) in order to win. If nobody gets over 50% today…
More on Zooomr
Bloody Microsoft Word! I had actually written this whole post out in Word. And then Word crashed. For no reason. I didn’t even get a chance to take a…
My flight to San Francisco (12 Aug 2007)
Hello. Finally I am going to write to you about my trip. I was going to just backdate the articles but that’s just going to get confusing as you won’t know…
Rugby World Cup 2007 broadcasters
I’ve been trying to find out what channel the Rugby World Cup would be broadcast on in the UK because that’s most likely where I’ll be when it’s on. It’s been…
Ad(non-)Sense, photos and other stuff
So I have had AdSense running on this site for a few days. Whenever I look at it, the ad is usually India-related. Which is quite strange because my Indian…
Posting from Word
Apparently you can blog from within Word. I am going to try it out. I have nothing to say other than that though. Looks quite cool. Word has switched to a…
Kiwi food in France
Yesterday I made bacon and egg pie. Nobody over here has heard of it. Well, I haven’t really asked that widely. Here is a photo: Tonight I made roast lamb. The…