Tech Stuff
Windows 7 RC 7100 Upgrade from Vista
Submitted on May 13, 2009, 10:55 p.m.
Well I figured since the RC was generally available – I’d test the upgrade process from Windows Vista to Windows 7. I chose my ThinkPad T61p as the victim. This is my fully loaded portable dev...RFIDs on the Brain
Submitted on May 09, 2009, 9:59 p.m.
Speechless really. I’m not often lost for words – but this presentation by Patrick Dixon of Siemens leaves me speechless. Thanks to RFIDs on the Brain from Boing Boing (and Douglas Rushkoff via...GZip and Deflate Compression Filter for ASP.Net MVC
Submitted on May 02, 2009, 2:17 p.m.
I’d previously created a compression processor for dynamic content – using this excellent post for QValues by Dave Transom. Also just just discovered this post on creating an action filter for...Why is Google Fuzz Testing My Site
Submitted on Apr 10, 2009, 10:36 a.m.
This is weird – was looking at some of the reports in the Webmaster Tools I use from Google – and there were a lot (several hundred) Web crawl 404 not founds. Google reports that its spider was...Best ASP.NET Web Hosting
Submitted on Apr 08, 2009, 6:09 a.m.
UPDATE 2011-10-10: While I think ORCS is a good company - I'm not sure of the value of their shared hosting plan anymore. I've since moved to *nix for development and hosting, and am now...SyntaxHighlighter Plugin for Windows Live Writer
Submitted on Mar 29, 2009, 10:45 p.m.
Alex Gorbatchev has done a great job with version 2.0 of his excellent JavaScript SyntaxHighlighter. And I’ve just updated my code snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer – with SyntaxHighlighter...Aggregate Feeds using Linq to Xml
Submitted on Mar 21, 2009, 7:04 p.m.
I decided to create an aggregate sitemap.xml for the root of my domain. There are sitemap handlers in the blog, otherblog and photo subdirectories already – but I wanted a single sitemap.xml in the...The Little Printer That Could – My HP 930c
Submitted on Mar 20, 2009, 12:38 a.m.
This is probably more ‘tweet’ worthy than blog worthy – but what the heck. You see that little printer to the left? That’s an HP 930c DeskJet inkjet printer – and I’ve been using it now for eight...Three Steps Down
Submitted on Feb 23, 2009, 2:21 p.m.
Update: 30th March More evidence that my previous hosting co., was in technical meltdown. Look at the Google bot stats below… and see if you can spot when Google and my old hosting co., hit an all...Where My Head’s At…
Submitted on Feb 23, 2009, 12:28 a.m.
Been quiet here on both blogs and in the photography department – right is the reason why. Did you know that ROM packs better than EEPROM, and EEPROM packs better than RAM? Or that the Vpp contact...