There are times that I get frightened. Such as when a prime minister says ‘Read My Lips – Now New Taxes’, or when a bank serves you quickly. Or when a phone company does something nice! Right now I think …
I am working in Canada today… I have some software to debug, which I thought was fixed. Well, obviously not from the fault report I got. Now I only have one question… Which piece of software has the BUG? At …
First thing on todays agenda is to get the menu done for the party. Mostly done, but I need to work out how much of things I need. A few people have offered to bring things, so I need to …
There is a company in the USA called RSYNC. They are a company which will charge you $2/month to access their servers as a network Hard Disk. Basically they will offer you as much hard disk space online as you …
I have managed to get a basic version of messenger to work – although it is not what I would call reliable by any extent of the imagination. But it works well enough that I can use this in a …
As I write more of the MSN interface, I am learning more about the protocol used by Messenger. You can see much of the low level stuff here but that is not the interesting part really. Of more interest is …
This afternoon I have been playing with dotMSN. This is an MSN plugin for VB.NET, so I can now write a program to send and receive MSN messages. For instance I could write a program to accpet MSN messages and …
According to The Register, several US companies have been sued by states and cities in the USA over hotel taxes. Sites such as Expedia have been paying the taxes on the wholesale price of the hotel rooms rather than the …
If Dr Seuss Wrote Computer Manuals… [I found the following cleaning up my HDD… Enjoy] If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address …
I slept well last night – not surprising given the long day, and the fact that I stayed up even later when I started to get tired talking to a friend. Still, it was fun, and that is what sleep …
I am starting to get a bit tired… WIth the food and the long day I am getting a bit tired… I guess I will have an early night tonight… One of the stranger books that I have in my …
Dinner was good – chinese. The food was delicious – special fried rice, satay beef, sweet and sour pork, and BBQ chicken. The food was hot and I only wish that I had not eaten as much for lunch. Still, …
Lunch was good… We went down to Sizzles. It was hard going there knowing that I was going to be going out for dinner too. Their salad bar is really really good, and I love their salads… But knowing that …
Back from shopping – I didnt end up getting anything except morning tea. Borders did not have many books at all in their computer section, and essentially none on the two subjects I was interested in. Still, the selection was …