Years ago - back in 1985 - I had a Commodore Amiga. We started off with the Amiga 1000 and then upgraded to the Amiga 3000. We even lashed out and purchased a CD32. It was a disaster that Commodore went into liquidation and stop producing such fantastic computers. There is a comprehensive writeup about […]
There is heaps of hype hitting various website about new and upcoming Portable (Personal) Media Players. Microsoft is just about to launch a new device called the ZUNE - www.comingzune.com which apparently will be an iPod killer with wireless networking built in, an FM transmitter and a larger screen.
Apple obviously have the next generation iPod […]
I have been in the market for a new LCD screen for a while now, thanks to a house warming present from the in-laws. I have been looking around in the shops, however I am very disappointed that 1080p are as rare as hens teeth at the moment and cost heaps. This will all change […]
I have heard all the hype about this fanbangled new windows client that makes blogging enjoyable, unfortunately it does not seem to work with my installation of Wordpress. When trying to connect, Windows Live Writer throws up this rather informative error: An error occurred while attempting to connect to your weblog: Invalid Server Response - […]
I have been working on an application form at work for the last week or so now and have been making use of dynamically generated forms. One thing that I found a real brain teaser was accessing values from these dynamically generated fields. It was just not happening. Being new to .Net programming I was […]
Just days after my previous post where I mentioned that it would be fun interesting to fly on a Russian airline, one crashes. The plane was on a flight from the southern Russian Black Sea coastal town of Anapa to the northern city of Saint Petersburg where it crashed near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
In […]
The tickets are booked and we are off to Russia again. After getting late approval for holidays from my work and Natalia’s work, we had the opportunity to book tickets to Vladivostok. Unfortunately, because we were so late in booking the tickets, we can not fly directly with Korean Air and have to do some […]
In case you weren’t familiar with the British version of the popular TV Series The Office, Ricky Gervais stars as David Brent, the manager of a paper firm. Microsoft UK comissioned him and Stephen Merchant (co-creator) to do an internal training video for them, with hilarious results. I’m a huge Office fan, so I was […]