June 2007 - Posts
I'd love to update some of my sites - they could sure use some updating . But I'm crap at web design. The whole "pretty" thing is sadly out of my reach. I want someone to design the layout, make it beautiful, cut it up and send me css+markup
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Following the recent Mozy unpleasantness I've been trying other services and software to get a network-wide backup working, both on-site and off-site. I was recommended to use SyncBack - by a lot of very clever people. I hated it. It looked like it
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Found a truly bizarre problem with WinZip over the weekend. I zipped up the whole of a project I am working on, adding just the files that changed since a certain date. Then I sorted by folders and types and deleted a few thousand files that I didnt want
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Jasmine has returned after 5 weeks in the shop. An old woman ran a stop sign and did a number on the front end of the car and although her insurance company picked up the tab, it still took forever to get fixed. No-one makes parts for this car, so everything
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Plip blogged this morning about an old - very old - site of mine; www.asprss.com Created back in the heady days of 2001 (which seems like a differrent era to me, like remembering "before the war") the site was aimed at a small group of people
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At the weekend I had a problem with a new site where it would keep asking me to sign in every time I visited. It's well known now that ASP.NET 2.0 changed the way that timeouts worked , so I checked the web.config to make sure a long timeout was specified
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I've known about http://unprofessionalcommunityserver.com/ for a while now but it's finally out of the bag today . Rob talks about setting goals - one of mine is to get onto that page
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I'm betting that you can remember a lot of numbers, right? If you're anything like me, you'll remember the license plates of your Dad's cars from *cough* 30 years ago. (btw, they were OVO 914F and VFJ 158J - I wonder where they are now?)
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