Cute Teddy Bear
I think this is SO cute… According to the BBC, a company in the US state of Vermont has sparked controversy with a teddy bear in a straitjacket emblazoned with a love heart for Valentine’s Day. For when you are …
Author: Darryl Smith
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Here in New Zealand I am staying in a place called Coatesville. It is about 3KM from Albany, about 30KM north of Auckland. It is a really nice little town. Quiet. Peaceful. Albany has a megacentre strip mall with the …
Copyright and Fostex
I was looking at the Soundtrack to Local Hero, and something struck me. The copyright data for the album is incorrect, and actually fraudulant in some jurisdictions. The songs for the album were written and performed sometime in the early …
What is a Blog?
Recently someone asked me what a Blog was. Blog was the word of the year for 2003 or 2004 but the word is still not well known throughout the population. Some people who have heard the word have no idea …
New Zealand here I come
Tomorrow morning I am flying to New Zealand for a few days. Probably the weekend and not much more. I am staying with a friend and we are going to see if we can fix his recording studio at the …
Findwindow Question – Windows CE
No blog for a while. I have no excuse I have been working on doing a vehicle tracking interface for OziExplorer CE. This required me to use VB.NET under Windows CE. An interesting exercise. I have had issues getting the …
The Parkes Observatory Home Page
Yesterday I took a friend of mine to The Parkes Observatory Home Page. This was really cool as we managed to get a full tour of the place. I will doccument more later.
The most beautiful word in the English Language – Lmud
LMUD – It must be a popular word. If you enter 5683 on a Nokia phone it appears when entering an SMS. I often enter that combination wanting a different word, but LMUD is what appears. Not only is this …
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Nokia 6600 Stuff
I have just found a couple of programs for my Nokia 6600 mobile. One is a must have and the other is the Useful type. The Must Have is a Keyboard Lock. You can download it from http://koti.phnet.fi/jarilaak/software/jjlkeylock.html. You need …
Killing a process in VB.NET
I spent some time today searching form information on how to kill a process using VB.NET. I was surprised that this was harder than I thought it would be. Mainly because the information does not seem to be documented very …
Quietness
OK, I admit it. I have been a bit quiet for the last few weeks. I have had a lot on my mind. A huge ammount in fact. I will not go into the details here right now, but I …
Managed DirectX Programming
I am starting to get up to speed with what I have to do to get sound sampled. The only problem is that now I am getting an error message – “Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: The operation is not valid due …
Managed DirectX
OK. So here I am trying to do a rush job. I need to do some cute work with DirectX in VB.NET. Rushed because I need to write the code – someone else was going to but has not been …
ABBA… A Confession
I was on the phone yesterday and I commented to a friend “Yes, that is ABBA in the background”. And his comment was something along the lines of “I was about to ask that”. My music collection is somewhat extensive …