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There and Back Again With Technology
Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:46 PM

Been away for christmas. One thing that struck me was how much technology is about these days. Wherever we went people were brandishing their new mobile phones and talking about broadband and mp3s and stuff. Quite a few of the christmas presents were

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Coding Horror in a good way
Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:08 PM

I happened accross a very good web site today. Coding Horror is a kind of homage to the nasty bits in the Steve McConnell books. It is the blog of Jeff Atwood, who is a .NET developer and all round interesting chap. Well worth a read if you are serious

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Merry Christmas Everybody
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:31 PM

I was over at dad's today. He was at a christmas decoration warehouse thing where everything was half price. I'm not sure if this counts as an excuse to buy what he did, but it makes the picture look nice: Merry christmas to all my readers, and I

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XBOX 360 The Call of Call of Duty
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:42 PM

I got hold of a copy of Call of Duty for the XBOX 360 over the weekend. Number one son reckons that I shouldn't talk about games before I've completed them. That probably means that I'm only allowed to review Halo and Halo 2. However, I have played COD

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XBOX 360 Media Magic
Monday, December 12, 2005 9:18 PM

I hooked up my XBOX 360 to my Media Centre PC over the weekend. Both machines are in the same room, but I wanted to see if it worked. First I had to install some software on the PC, then some on the XBOX. Then it moaned that my network (which still includes

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XBOX 360 Most Wanted Most Wanted
Saturday, December 10, 2005 9:57 PM

One of the neat things about the XBOX 360 is that you can download game demos and play them (you might have been able to do this using the original XBOX but I never did). Anyhow, I've already downloaded a couple of demos, Kameo and Need for Speed Most

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Console Yourself
Friday, December 09, 2005 8:16 PM

One of the hidden gems in Visual Studio 2005 is the new improved Console. The old one was rather boring, with just simple printing and reading stuff. The new one is much more interesting. It lets you change the colour of text and background, move the

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Achieving Balance
Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:05 PM

We had our programming exam yesterday. I set the paper ages ago, and I've quite forgotten what the questions were. Never mind, I will have around 130 chances to refresh my memory over the next few days. From the forums it looks like half the class hate

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Image Transfer to Smartphone and PSP
Monday, December 05, 2005 7:49 PM

I've finished the little program I started yesterday. I gave up on the grid view for version 1, because I wanted to get something working before christmas. I've created a little program that you can use to resize and transfer pictures from your PC to

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Recreational Coding Madness
Sunday, December 04, 2005 10:34 PM

I've got the most powerful games console in the world (tm) sitting in my room. So what do I spend my afternoon doing? Writing C# for fun. Finding out about the new DataGridView control. I've no idea why this is, perhaps it is a reaction to the four hour

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XBOX 360 Rocks Oh yes.
Friday, December 02, 2005 3:02 PM

In September I went up town and pre-ordered my XBOX 360. I've been waiting for it ever since. This morning, I got it. I had to wait for an hour in the rain, becuase the store didn't actually open at 8:00 am (despite telling me that it did and inducing

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