Ok, I have an eclectic taste in music. At work the sounds pumping through my good headphones cycles through Billy Joel, Gorillaz, REM, Coldplay, Motzart, Meatloaf, all on shuffle, which can make for an interesting play list. There’s more music I like but I am too lazy to rip it.
Anyway, I recently rediscovered some old techno: Robert Miles, Darude, Sash. Oooh, this brings back memories of programming in Turbo Pascal and belting this stuff out till your ears bleed. 🙂
Sally & Andrew came around to see us. The real reason they came was to watch Sarah & I watching TV.
It starts with what’s known as Choux Pastry. Click More to find out how.
Ok, this is an old story but I haven’t actually posted it. This is for you, Mom: here’s what happened that night I only half told you about. 🙂
So, it looks like the elections are over. I may be biased but my feeling is that Labour (50 seats) has a better chance of forming a government than National (49 seats). Click more to find out why.
I came across this website: http://www.godhatesfags.com and I laughed. What delightful satire! I mean, it’s so black, so cutting, so realistic, you could almost be forgiven for believing…
Hang on…
Oh, I see…
Why can’t God speak for himself? Why would he choose to speak through people like this?
Ok, I have just recently discovered the inherent coolness that is the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). I whipped up this example to show some of the random stuff you can retrieve with it (be sure to “allow” the activeX to run, you trust me don’t you?).
Isn’t that cool? Imagine what a hacker could get up to if they could just execute whatever old ActiveX they wanted on your local machine, hmmm?
Anyway, I hope to write a few more interesting examples in the near future. Hmmm, Imagine being able to turn on / off services or kill processes using nothing but scripts in a web page?
Ok, I couldn’t help myself, I whipped up this web based service manager (requires admin access of course): Service Manager.
Lara & I went to donate blood today (on Lara’s insistence, she’s big on
community and whatsis). So, we fill out our forms and wait our turn.
Lara goes through before me because she’s donated in New Zealand before
and the paperwork is less arduous.
Continue reading Lara’s trip to the blood donor centre
At long last I have managed to get my hands on some copies of my sister’s wedding photos. I am resisting the urge to post a picture of the cake first.
So first, here is a picture of the happy couple: David & Susan Simpkin. I find it difficult to disagree with my father on this one: this is definitely the most beautiful bride I have ever seen or will ever see.
And at last, the picture you’ve all been waiting for, here is a picture of the cake on the left. I made it myself. It’s three layers of chocolate mudcake, covered in white fondant. The little blue shells and seahorses are white chocolate which I have coloured.
Oh and the top layer is gluten free (Buckwheat flour) it worked out reasonably well 🙂
You know how it is. As software developers we all know how dodgy software can be. There’s always the registry setting containing the admin password (yes, I’ve see this, but not at Beca), the hard-coded string required to get a particular component to work (seen that too), the thing that Allen does every morning to keep the web servers going (he used to run a batch file, bless his heart). I discovered another one of these today when diagnosing a problem in one of our vital systems.
Continue reading 69er
I just had a conversation with Alton. The quiet old guy in the corner of the office. He’s close to retirement (65, I think). I used to consider him the “access guy” because he was the only one who would willingly work on the Microsoft access projects.
My how my opinion has changed.