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Month: July 2004
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Other Languages I can only speak in English. Some people even dispute that. So today one of my Jobs was to do some work in New Caledonia. French New Caledonia. This was via VNC, so i was not actually there. …
Lookout – Gone…
According to Joel on Software, Lookout has removed their software from their Web Site. This is a horrible thing to say since I am loving their outlook tool. Since the story broke a few days back, everyone it seems has …
GPRS
New Caledonia finally has GPRS, at least for testing. This has only taken a month or two longer than it is supposed to. Right now apparently the plans are ‘All you can eat’ rather than charging by the byte. And …
DSE annoys me
OK. Saturday I went to Dick Smith Eletronics (DSE) to buy a set of verniers. Sure, they had some, at $40 instead of $10 as advertised in Silicom Chip magazine. A copy of the advert is in the graphic. …
Getting sense out of Sensis
I hate dealing with Sensis. I have just contacted them a third time wanting to use one of their products for my business. I know that they offer the product. What I hate is being told when I ring up …
Unable to build project output group ‘Content Files from SOMEWEB (Active)’
I have been working on one of my projects in VB. Working on getting the application running as an install process. When I started trying to compile, I started getting the following error:- Unable to build project output group ‘Content …
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Microsoft Global Briefing
Have a look at this Microsoft Site.. There is a cute foto there of the backstage area. There is a lot in the photo if you look carefully. Nothing I suspect is Microsoft Confidential, but anyway. Note that I am …
Pretty Icon Maker Products
Short advert here for a product that I am evaluating at the moment. It is Pretty Icon Maker and is one of the few shareware programs that allows us users to actually do cute things such as import a BMP …
Lookout email search for Microsoft Outlook – Lookout Software
After a few false starts I got Lookout for Outlook running yesterday, and I am fairly impressed. I can see great things for this product, once it gets integrated into the core application of Microsoft Outlook. I can see where …
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Radioactive Networks: Home
#1, Microsoft might have finally caught some intelligence and has purchased LookOut, a company that provides search tools for Outlook. Right now their tools seem to be free, and it would seem that Microsoft are looking at including this as …
Couriers Business Processes
One thing that never fails to surprise me is the lack of workflow processes in couriers. They seem to attempt to do the impossible, with stupid things like attempting to deliver parcels to post office boxes. I mean the couriers …
Strange Web Site Request
In my business I get all strange requests. This is more strange than normal. This is an unusual request. Searching the Internet I discovered your web site. Your business seems to have the experience to perhaps answer this very unusual …
Top Secret Microsoft Job…
Job Details – Microsoft Careers: “Why settle for working on an established product that everyone knows about when you can work on a top secret project that has not yet been announced. You can enjoy saying phrases like ‘I could …
Microsoft Project (or FrontPage) Can’t Load Speech Recognition Files…
There is an entry in the Microsoft Knowledge Base about 827388 – You Receive a “Microsoft FrontPage Can’t Load Speech Recognition Files…” Message When You Start FrontPage. The solution to this is to Just Say No. Like many things, just …
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