Community blog feed on 07 Sep 2008

• A trip to the US Embassy for a visa interview

  07 Sep 2008 at 23:15 from Adrian Bateman

  Back in early July, I had to head off to the US Embassy in London for the interview for my work visa to come and live out in Seattle. While there was ...

• That MS advert ...

  07 Sep 2008 at 22:01 from Barry Dorrans

  I think Craig has way too much time on his hands; but one thing occurred to me con·quis·ta·dor one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the...

• Storing Images in Isolated Storage. A Silverlight 2 "Image Browser" example

  07 Sep 2008 at 20:59 from Ian Blackburn

  Isolated storage offers a great opportunity to improve performance for locally cached data. Instead of reading data from the server you can store it ...

• Streaming FLAC from Linux to a PlayStation 3

  07 Sep 2008 at 16:06 from Tim Anderson

  The digital home is in an anarchic phase right now. The general public has woken up to the idea of a home music server, and I’m seeing this widely dis...

• September XPClub Meeting is this Wednesday

  07 Sep 2008 at 15:49 from BM Bloggers

  The next XPClub meeting is a double bill: Code Quality and Scala + Lift. and is being held at the usual venue the Victoria Hotel Leeds. This is a free...

• Microsoft “shoe bending” advert, in all seriousness, please…

  07 Sep 2008 at 12:42 from Craig Murphy

  A recent Microsoft advert, brought to my attention by Colin, is somewhat odd, cool, weird, memorable, etc. Ian then replied to Colin with 1938media...

• Vista Complete PC Restore, 0x80042401, DiskPart, WbAdmin

  07 Sep 2008 at 12:38 from Mike Taulty

  I picked up a new laptop, a Lenovo T61P to go alongside ( or, more likely replace depending on the "powers that be" ) my existing HP NC8430. I wanted ...

• One of the many things YouTube is great for...

  07 Sep 2008 at 12:28 from Neil Turner

  ...is clips of 1980s BBC childrens' TV programmes....

• Browser history can help determine rebuild vs clean up, but can be revealing…

  07 Sep 2008 at 10:47 from Craig Murphy

  Like a lot of folks in the IT industry, whether you’re a software developer or in an infrastructure/support role, I seem to find myself sorting ...

• Links for 2008-09-06 [del.icio.us]

  07 Sep 2008 at 06:00 from Tobin Harris

  Phatch - Photo Batch Processor Open source photo processor. Good for screenshots. Also works on large batches. Relay: Ajax Directory Manager Ajax fil...

• Photo: "and..ACTION!"

  07 Sep 2008 at 03:09 from Korayem's Blog

  KoRaYeM posted a photo:Best viewed Large on Black. It really differs!! ??? ???????????? -------------Juhayna advertisement was being shot in downtown...

• Running managed code from a network share

  07 Sep 2008 at 02:01 from Adrian Bateman

  Since the launch of .NET all those years ago now, one issue keeps coming up for me. You create a quick proof-of-concept and stick it on a network shar...

• Upgrading to Subtext 2.0

  07 Sep 2008 at 01:25 from Adrian Bateman

  I followed the last few changes to Subtext 2.0 through the Subtext mailing list over the last couple of months and fully intended to upgrade to the pr...

• Sun releases VirtualBox 2.0 just couple of days after 1.6.6!

  07 Sep 2008 at 01:12 from Thushan Fernando Uncut

  One of the hottest Virtualisation applications going around the internets these days is Sun’s recently aquired VirtualBox software suite. The br...

• Sun releases VirtualBox 2.0 just couple of days after 1.6.6!

  07 Sep 2008 at 01:12 from Thushan Fernando Uncut

  One of the hottest Virtualisation applications going around the internets these days is Sun’s recently aquired VirtualBox software suite. The br...

• Some people go out on Saturday nights

  07 Sep 2008 at 00:35 from Neil Turner

  Whereas I sometimes do things like this....