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

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Got to get me one of these…

Anyone listening... Its my birthday soon! ThinkGeek :: LED Binary Clock

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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!)

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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The Bike with Square Wheels

Some mad mathematician has created a bike with square wheels, but it rides perfectly smoothly. This ScienceNews article explains all.

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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.

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Whidbey Community Technology Preview – Part I

Finally got it installed, so am going to go over some things I notice and like/dislike. Firstly, I didn't get to have a look at the PDC version of Whidbey, so I don't know what differences there will be between … Continue reading

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