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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:43 AM

JRE to include MSN Toolbar..Sun and Microsoft best buddies?

Saw this article today, which related to the JRE runtime and the fact that they'll be including the MSN toolbar with its download. "Who says the age of miracles is past? Sun, which loathes Microsoft, is going to distribute Microsoft’s search...
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Monday, November 10, 2008 6:08 AM

Dell extends my warranty...

The laptop saga is drawing to an end and as promised, Dell has extended my warranty (at no cost to me) to ensure that my laptop stays perfectly functional. I was surprised to see two new line items in my warranty and service list: - Priority User Phone...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:31 AM

DELL XPS M1710 gaming laptop overheating...

Last night i decided to play a few games of COD4 - which i do for an hour here and there, and suddenly i had a drop in FPS and a few seconds later the whole laptop just closed down. At first my mind went OMG!!!!! a powerspike or something just as malicious...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:29 PM

Google Chrome Exploit - Auto Download

Ok, it's now blatantly obvious that Google Chrome was released in a rushed, incomplete (even for Beta releases) and faulty state. An Auto-Download (extremely simply executed at that) exploit was found and has been published. We're talking about...
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Friday, September 05, 2008 5:47 PM

OMG!! Chrome (Google's browser) indexes HTTPS pages - even online banking details

This would seriously have been one of the biggest mistakes known to man if it wasn't for the fact that people actually downloaded it! Chrome, which is Google's new answer to the web browsing war, has revealed a serious flaw in it's search...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:16 PM

Another year...

I just received my confirmation email, letting me know that i've been re-awarded for 2008-2009. I'm still going to participate in the ASP.Net category. 2007-2008 really saw some dramatic changes in my field and i'm sure the next 12 months...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:29 PM

Things you cannot do on April Fools day...

Apparently, you cannot sing "Oh happy day!" a lot on April Fools day. Apparently, you cannot ask the same question over and over and over and over again on April Fools day. I wonder what other things you cannot do on April Fools day?
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:33 PM

whitepages.com.au gets hit by malware via their ads

Sandi Hardmeier uncovered a local, high volume site which had been infected with malware through their advertising/banner ads etc. Sensis has been hit well and truely so please avoid the www.whitepages.com.au / www.yellowpages.com.au and of course www...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:01 PM

stupid bus and sleepless nights...

Here's one of the dumbest episodes of my life. First some background. As habit is, i walk my dog at night time just after my kids has gone to bed and being that it's now summer time it means that mozzies are now going rampant in all their horny...
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Monday, November 12, 2007 10:00 PM

Free Code Focus magazine issue...

Excerpt: VSX CoDe Focus magazine is now online at http://code-magazine.com/focus/vsx . Microsoft sponsored this special edition of CoDe Magazine on the topic of VSX. The entire 76 page magazine is available online in multi-page HTML format and also as...
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Monday, November 12, 2007 9:52 PM

Craig hits the spot...why is MSFT continuing to use Flash?

Tonight i took a breather and read up on the huge amount of blogs i've backed up as i've been faily busy these last couple of weeks. Craig put something out there which IMHO i believe is true - MSFT is still using Adobe Flash on some of their...
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Monday, November 12, 2007 9:15 PM

Do corporates pay attention to blogs?

Sometimes there's blog posts out there that makes me cry... why? because justice was served and service became the main focus of Lenovo . All from a blogger in Perth - Michael Kleef... Granted, there's more than one side to the story, but it really...
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Friday, August 24, 2007 10:31 AM

Stupid Sharepoint 2007...

Today i set up a Wiki on our company's intranet and everything went well till i went and wanted to add the Wiki to my Outlook 2007 as a Sharepoint List (eg. it is a feature of the list that this is possible).. but...here's what happens when you...
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 11:58 AM

Dell backs down on bloatware - Spyware Sucks

Ahhh...Sandi is on the ball again with this brilliant piece of articulated anger/resentment which I can fully relate to. Seriously, not that long ago i bought a XPS M1710 laptop from dell. Hardware wise i was very happy with the system, but the bloatware...
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Friday, June 22, 2007 6:55 AM

ASUS M2N32 WS Professional - BIOS upgrade

I should have listened to my own advice yesterday and just gone out the backyard to dig a hole and then drop myself into it. First a Vista installation fails....driver corruption... Then being very brave (well i thought i was!!!) i decided it was about...
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 6:24 PM

So, I started my travels into XNA

Today i took a few spare hours to get myself set up for XNA. I've been totally keen to get working with this ever since it got out but always managed to find an excuse why i'd put it on hold. I also got myself another blog which is going to be...
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Saturday, June 09, 2007 6:22 PM

ask a SQL guru - Virtual SQL Server help, by Frank Arrigo's Blog

It's not only innovative thinking which led Peter Ward, SQL Server MVP Australia, to set up AskASQLGuru.com together with a group of other SQL Server specialist and gurus. I found this today on Frank Arrigo's blog - thanks for spreading the word...
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Sunday, June 03, 2007 11:26 PM

Curiosity or ?

I haven't had a look at my analytics stats for quite a while, but tonight as i was waiting for Visual Web Developer Express 2005 to download (114kb/sec from MSFT?? ouch) i decided to take a look. I was rather surprised in how many visits i'd had...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:24 AM

My turn - crook as a dog

My wife's always said that i whine more than anybody else when i'm sick..i moan, i cough, i sweat and i'm cranky as hell...supposedly my wife is smarter than me so she's most likely right..well, i don't whine or whimper...do i? Anyways...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:07 AM

Interesting blog - well written Tyler

Sometimes when you float around on the interweb, you stumble onto a site which catches your eye and you suddenly look up and find that you've spent 1hr reading. This happened to me tonight as I was looking through the new Google Analytics interface...
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