July 2008 Archives

XP SP3 Sucks

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.

Calculator madness

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…

OS Telemarketers...

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…

Simple XML Editor

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.

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