If you want to download the videos to watch later, or to happily play them faster, skip ahead etc, then you can grab the .wmv files instead of having to watch them in a browser in silverlight. I like to increase the play speed in parts and silverlight doesn't allow that ;) To get the .wmv's,...
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02-23-2008
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I was flicking through some MSDN help pages, when I noticed this topic on Component Authoring: Isn't it nice how "special" Microsoft views VB folks. Obviously anyone using C# doesn't have this issue, it's just the people using VB. Not patronising at all <geez> Oh well, at...
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One of the most annoying things I have found about Vista is the file explorer. It constantly changes the views of folders and way too often sets the columns in a folder as if the folder contains photos when it doesn't. To me that is really disappointing and undermines any confidence I could have...
Andrew Coates has a picture of what he coins an "illusion". I prefer to think of it as a perception, not an illusion. In the picture a square is rendered as being in the shade. So the mind adjusts what the colour actually is in full light based on surrounding information. The reason for this...
Paul Vick released some statistics in relation to VB , which for discussion sake I'll repeat here : Visual Basic is the #1 .NET language (as reported by Forrester Research) Visual Basic is the #1 downloaded and #1 registered Express Edition (topping the #2 position by 20%) Visual Basic is the #1...
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I was listening to Sean O'Driscoll's blog cast earlier today while working in the kitchen, and one thing stuck me was the analogy he made about buying a camera. This reminded me of something I saw on a Dell forum recently... I had purchased a Dell monitor, and the monitor itself is beautiful...
Sometimes cars seem to manifest certain personas about their owners, be it the hippy volkswagen, through to the hoon car. Well yesterday I think I noticed one I hadn't really seen before. It could be just coincidence of course ….. Yesterday morning, Easter Sunday, my pager went off to attend a car accident...
Despite catching a cold from the moment I landed in Sydney, and a terrible tips and tricks presentation, TechEd 2006 was a lot of Fun. First let's see how it went on the " reasons to TechEd " evaluator: (1) the shirts : Well all I saw was all cotton, so things are potentially looking good ;) MS's forefront...
A while ago, my old friend Patrick Meader (who must never read my blog) **complained** to me that I needed to fill in my About page on this blog as it is almost impossible to tell who's blog this is. The title of the blog just says "@Head : Bill's random thoughts". Then today, I saw Frank's post about...
The other week when I read about Steve Ballmer's email to Microsoft employees , and how they decided to take a "neutral" stance on legislation that was aimed at protecting the rights of gays, well I must admit I was pretty apathetic. First I'm not gay. Second, it's USA legislation and I'm Australian...