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Two of the directors (Simon Clough and David Todd) are undertaking 3 Tough Challenges for 3 Top Charities. For more information, links, donations etc. please visit justgiving.com/3tcchallenge.

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What a woeful display of footballing ‘excellence’…. the best players we have… give me a break.

If you disregard the disallowed goal, England’s display was appalling… completely and utterly outclassed by the Germans… I know who I’ll be supporting from here on in. (more…)

Now, before I go on, these are based on Visual Studio 2005 (but I have just looked at Visual Studio 2008 and I have no reason to think these don’t apply). So what are my comments this time around on my Microsoft bashing merry go round (more…)

Well, I’ve dabbled with C# before, tweaking a RunUO instance, but this is the first time I’ve actually used the language in anger, writing something from scratch, so I figured I’d just jot down a few thoughts. The project… a PowerPoint add-in.
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Since my original ‘Scraped by 208.50.101.153′ post, a bunch of guys who were also interested in knowing what it was all about got together here and figured it out. I’ve verified most of what was discovered and written up an article all about here on my wiki.

In short, it appears to be related to Microsoft’s SmartScreen filter, but for more information head on over to my wiki and check out the write up of the guys research.

For anyone who uses my Advanced Custom Field Widget, I thought I’d get ahead of the game and see how it fairs when running under WordPress 3. My initial tests running WP3 on my development blog suggest it will be fine, and should not require any changes.

The tests were done with ACFW Version 0.82 and WordPress 3.0 (Beta 1).

Well… first we had the scrapers… now we have the spammers… Since about 4:30pm my blog has seen an inordinate amount of traffic originating from all over the place… the one common thing… all of it is apparently referrals from a site that pushes software for getting your links around and about the web. I’m not going to give them the recognition they are after by putting the domain on the front page, so if you want to know more, read on… (more…)

If you have an i-Pod and you’d like a ‘sock’ for it, but object to paying money to Apple or someone else for one… if you want to knit one here’s a fairly simple pattern for one. (more…)

I’ve not been knitting too long (a little over a year) and I’ve just finished my first real request Up until now all the stuff I’ve done, I’ve offered to do to get some practice in. But just before Christmas I was asked if I’d knit a sackboy for a friends sister. He’s been knitted with the Alan Dart pattern and he’s got a nice little hat and scarf. (more…)

For anyone browsing with IE 8, the problem with the left sidebar should now be fixed. This is the first time I’ve used IE 8′s developer tools and I have to say, they made fixing the problem a piece of cake. I have Firefox with a bunch of dev tools installed, but trying to fix CSS problems can be a bind… with IE it was dead easy, turn off the items with a check box to see which one broke the page… one item, turned out to be a fix for a problem with earlier versions of IE. Anyhow, it’s fixed and the site now looks how it should in IE 8.