Archive for June, 2006
Have Scanner, Will Catblog
I installed the Epson software to go with my scanner, and that seems to do a much better job than the Mac’s Image Capture program. I also got a new (to me) camera last week, so I ran a roll of film through it to test that all was working. At that point, Jenny decided [...]
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Visual Accretion
Barely has the paint dried on Visual Studio 2005 than we get details of the next big thing, Visual Studio Code Name ‘Orcas’. The big news so far seems to be Language Integrated Query (LINQ). I’ve read the Project Overview and it looks like “Embedded SQL” for the noughties to me, except that it’s not [...]
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Etsi Ketsi
Carolyn taught me this useful phrase last night. In Greece, apparently, when someone asks you how you are, it is considered terribly rude to explain that in actual fact you are utterly miserable, your life is a mess, all hope has departed, etc, etc. So to indicate that all may not be one hundred percent [...]
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A Fairytale Of Bristol
Fairytale Cottage at Blaise Hamlet, Henbury, Bristol This picture was taken back in October of 2004 on the first “TLR Challenge” (which I’ll tell you all about some other time). After that, work went busy, and then pear-shaped, and thus I never even got around to taking the film out of the camera. A few [...]
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Local Area Notwork
I’ve been having network problems for several days: downloads were running very slowly, I kept getting connection errors of various kinds, and at times the VPN connection to the office (essential for those “get an extra hour in bed by working from home” days) wouldn’t stay connected for more than a couple of minutes. The [...]
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