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{ Monthly Archives } April 2004

Using my Canon A70 as a webcam

If this little puppy works then expect to see a really bad webcam on this site in the near future… just ”need” to get a power adapter as this would eat batteries!

Cam4you utilities

26 Apr 2004 General Comments (0)

Got to get me one of these…

Anyone listening…

Its my birthday soon!

ThinkGeek :: LED Binary Clock

26 Apr 2004 General Comments (0)

The new word-of-mouth friendly advertising

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger

Some wonderful ads - the Seinfeld/Superman one is brilliant - you gotta love Seinfeld (wonder how much he got paid for this thing though!)

23 Apr 2004 General Comments (0)

MSDN in Firefox fecked!

Scott on Writing

At last an answer the problem I have been having with MSDN recently inside Mozilla Firefox 0.8 - and hopefully the guy’s issue will be raised to the right people and it will be fixed.

At least its not just me!

23 Apr 2004 Code Comments (1)

New version of FxCop

There’s a new version of FxCop been released - v1.30. Looks very nice, although there is some debate ongoing about some of its new performance rules.

Also it now nolonger locks the assemblies its analysed - a feature long in the waiting for!

On the other hand there is a small bug where you can no longer [...]

20 Apr 2004 Code Comments (0)

Microsoft releases open source product

Is this a first? Microsoft have released one of their internal development tools as an open source product, on SourceForge no less.

The tool is an XML based Windows Installer (MSI) creation tool, used internally within Microsoft by a hell of a lot of people, and it has now been released into the wild.

06 Apr 2004 Code Comments (0)

The Bike with Square Wheels

Some mad mathematian has created a bike with square wheels, but it rides perfectly smoothly.

This ScienceNews article explains all.

06 Apr 2004 General Comments (0)

Bizzare Third World Fridge

A guy in Nigeria has invented a fridge out of 2 pots, a cloth and some wet sand.

How cool is that! (pun intended)

Pot-in-pot fridge.

05 Apr 2004 General Comments (0)

Whidbey Community Technology Preview - Part I

Finally got it installed, so am going to go over some things I notice and like/dislike.

02 Apr 2004 Code Comments (0)