BrizVegas

I feel I should post something about the new browser from Google.

Cut a long story short, it’s fast, it looks good. But I need adblocker and firebug before I’d switch.

Well I’ve tried about 6 times now to install SP3 on my Windows XP machine.

Takes about 15mins to go through the process before I get this screen.

Tried unpluging my phone and killing off any processes that look unneccessary.

Thats it for me, I’m not trying again.

I have a calculator in the office that delivers very bizarre results to calculations.

100 + 10% = 110 (in most rational places)

However my Casio J-100w tells me it’s 111.1111111.  Better still 100 + 60% comes back as 250.

Every other calculator I get my hands on gives me normal results, but this one is from the twilight zone…

Had a call on my mobile from a “private” number…

The connection was bad and it sounded like they were calling from inside a helicopter. She told me they were representing some company about to have their IPO and could they get my email address to send me some info.

I said certainly…  my email address is B I L L G @ M I C R O S O F T . C O M

“Thank you” she said, “and you are from Denmark, is that correct?”

I said sure…

At that point I started to lose it and said I’m in a meeting, gotta go…

Playing around with a few RSS feeds and I needed to see the structure of the document. I trawled through 3 or 4 different open source projects before I found Peters XML Editor.  It’s not supported anymore, but it does exactly what I needed it to do without any fuss.

I had to implement tags for a site I’m developing and found this useful article on the topic:-

TagSchema

I used the 3 table version as recommended and then worked out the add/edit routines. Hopefully it’s all smooth from here.

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Had another enjoyable Friday night playing Wii Sports and Wii Fitness games at a mates place.

The tennis and bowling are the most enjoyable of the Wii Sports collection. I like the baseball as well, but the golf and boxing I found boring.

The balance board has me enthralled. Who knew that standing up could be so much fun? ;)  Although the programmers seem to have not given the product quite as much attention overall as they have the details of each game.

Trying to either setup a series of activities isn’t possible and playing with friends becomes annoying when you have to go all the way back to the menu to change profile. There should have been some kind of quick profile change menu along the top.

I’m still keen for one, but then I’m only getting to use it once a week. perhaps with daily use I’d become jaded faster.

Went to a mates place on Friday night and after some good old fashioned drinking ended up in front of the TV checking out his latest console, the Nintendo Wii.

I am completely blown away by the controller and the player interaction capabilities.

Its seriously the most amazing games system I’ve had a chance to play with. I’m very impressed and have real trouble coming up with superlatives to do it justice.

If you know someone with one of these consoles you have to check it out.

I started a new software project and after reading another developers recommended practice I thought I’d follow it and give it a go.

He recommended that when doing run modes to call them in the format “verb noun”.

So I gave that a go, and cut a long story short I think it’s a crap idea.

I’ve gone back to the way I used to do them, which is “noun verb”.

This has the benefit of keeping all the templates for a particular table together in the directory listing, instead of having all the Add pages together, then the Edit pages etc.

Using two almost identical projects and just making just this change, I cut my production time almost in half.