November 2006 - Posts
I hit a bizarre error today - one of those where ASP.NET hinders, not helps. But surprisingly it's quite common and well documented. It starts with browsing your site and hitting a "Service Unavailable". This is quite a scary message since
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It's official, it's out of here at the end of the week. It only takes one bid when there's no reserve Removing a few hundred pound body from the chassis was an interesting problem when you're on your own. Here's how I solved it - raised
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I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out - most people I've read seems to say that Netflix rules, Blockbuster drools. I disagree ( and I'm not alone ) Blockbuster' s recent (and well overdue) improvement to their service should
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I got my copy of Cars in the mail just now - and as always I'm ripping it first. This is what AnyDVD reports: Media is CSS protected! RCE protection not found. Found & removed wrong DVD structure! Found & removed Macrovision RipGuard protection!
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Just couldnt resist blogging by sending an email from my phone.. James (sent from my phone)= Published with BlogMailr
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Can it really be this easy? J Published with blogmailr
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Here's another special offer that I just found when looking for anti-virus/spyware tools for my family's computers - you won't find this on their web site without a special URL: http://home3.ca.com/microsoft/ That URL gets you anti-virus,
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I rip every DVD that I buy so that I can watch it on my Video iPod and the inevitable scratches don't make me all moody. I use AnyDVD so that the moronic DRM folks can't stop me copying my own property and it works really great. I also use their
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Developers do this all the time - they create something that is "beautiful on the inside", but doesn't actually do the task required. Everyone admires the class and how generics, hash tables and private virtual abstract objects were used
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I'm probably missing the point, but on the surface this seems to be a site that is promoting pure CSS design ( Scoble pointed it out on Sunday and I've only today got to his feed) But in IE6, surely the most popular browser on the planet it looks
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So, I walk into Best Buy tonight to buy some RAM for my wife's sad PC that has just 256mb. (Please, ignore the fact that I considered Best Buy for RAM. I want it tonight goddamit!) Immediately I feel old. The guys working there are 16. I wander around
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