Archive for the ‘General Rantings’ Category
My New Project!
Posted by richard in General Rantings, Photography on December 31st, 2009
Happy New Year everyone!
To celebrate 2010 in style, I’m launching a 365 Photography Project.
It’s got it’s own blog and I’ll be posting photos to my flickr stream and to the blog every day so please check it out!
First post…. tomorrow! =) Hang-over or no hang-over…..
Right, let the festivities commence!
Mozilla 1 – Microsoft 1
Posted by richard in General Rantings, Microsoft, Windows on October 19th, 2009
After silently installing their own add-ons to Firefox earlier this year as part of a Microsoft Service Pack, it appears that last last week Mozilla finally got around to blocking them on security grounds.
While Microsoft are happy modifying and ‘updating’ other people’s software in one of their updates, they then seem a bit lapse in keeping on top of the ol’ bug fixeroo, one of the primary reasons people flee from IE in the first place.
Prior to Mozilla blocking them, it turns out that this particularly nasty ‘Critical Remote Code Execution’ vulnerability applied not only to IE, but to Firefox installs containing these add-ons. So thanks guys, I’m glad someone’s watching our backs! =)
(Now, who knows what this will do to my WPF XBAP testing? After all that I might have to dust down IE!)
Google Wave Preview
Posted by richard in General Rantings on October 14th, 2009
Got my Google Wave invite through this morning, guess I need to RTFM and figure out exactly what it is/does as it all seems a little empty at the moment. Probably not helped by the fact that I don’t have any contacts using it either! Hmmm a one-man collaboration tool? About a useful as a chocolate teapot methinks! Got 6 invites left if anyone wants one?
All quiet on the blogging front…
Posted by richard in General Rantings, Software Development on August 13th, 2009
I know I’ve been pretty quiet as far as technical blog posts are concerned but I’ve not abandoned this blog, I’ve been working over the last few months entirely on Windows network driver development (NDIS 5.1), something which I profess to having absolutely no prior experience with so there really wasn’t anything relevant to blog about.
I’ve been making notes throughout the whole experience and so plan to post them shortly with the aim of helping anyone else who finds themselves in a similar situation and needs to get up to speed with Windows network driver development (NDIS 5.1). I am by no means an expert but want to share what I’ve learnt so far.
Google Voice!….. Denied!
Posted by richard in General Rantings on July 15th, 2009
I was so excited to receive the email inviting me to sign up for Google Voice this afternoon I didn’t read any further than the sign up link, but after logging in was presented with this:
Bah! For those who don’t know what Google Voice is and can’t figure out why I was so excited, check out the full feature list here; single phone number for your texts, mobile and landline calls, answer and make calls from anywhere, voicemail transcription to your google account to list but a few, so hurry up Google!!!
Site5 Web Hosting
Posted by richard in General Rantings on May 12th, 2009
Over the past few days I’ve been moving my web hosting to site5. Things seem to be going well so far and fingers crossed the Wordpress transfer of this blog has been relatively painless.
Hi!
Posted by richard in General Rantings on January 16th, 2009
Hi,
I don’t expect anyone to be reading this, but if anyone does happen to find this blog somehow, Hi!
I’m currently playing with themes to try and find the ‘right’ one so bear with me.
