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Monthly Archive: October 2005
Oct
26
Day 2
Due to a cockup at the pharmacy I just have "Fortijuice" to live off at the moment, my milkshake stylee "Fortisip" should be waiting for me this evening. I can already report that drinking Fortijuice makes your piss smell like that last flavour you had – "Fruits of the Forest" most recently. My stomach is …
Oct
25
Yet more home NAS devices
A gigabit connected 802.11g WAP with room for a huge hard drive and the ability to add more storage via USB? And all for $169? What trickery is this?! [Originally from Engadget]
Oct
24
Maxtor OneTouch III
The solution to all my backup and storage needs: 1TB (RAID0) of external USB & Firewire goodness. You can get your sticky mitts on it from December for about £700. I’ll take two. [Originally from C|NET]
Oct
23
Liquid
To help try and reign in my Crohn’s, tomorrow seems me start a polymeric diet. This involves having nothing but liquid "food" for 4 weeks. Look, 8 of these a day! They come in "fruit juice" or "milk shake" styles, annoyingly all sweet. I use inverted commas because it’s so artificial – it contains about …
Oct
21
Photographic Map of London
Superb: http://www.streetsensation.co.uk/
Oct
19
Houseboats
Very seriously, we’re looking at buying a houseboat. Reasons for: They’re detached Generally have a fabulous river view You can just move your entire house if you hate your neighbours Cheap (c. £100k-£200k for 2-3 bedrooms) Reasons against: Mooring fees Bottled gas Possible problems getting a telephone line If poorly converted, they can be cold …
Oct
18
Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 SP2
Windows Sharepoint Services SP2 & Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 SP2 have been released today. You need to install WSS SP2 first and then SPS SP2 on top of that. SP2 includes the fixes from SP1 as well. Good luck downloading them – download.microsoft.com has been dreadfully slow this side of the pond of late…
Oct
18
CAPTCHAs
I’m really, really fed up of comment spam on my blogs now. MT 3.2 was supposed to kill it once and for all, but it really hasn’t worked out like that. This morning I woke up to 50+ email notifications of "unapproved" (but not junked) comments. So, I’ve enabled CAPTCHAs using the SCode plugin. If …
Oct
17
Windows Vista October CTP – Build 5231
As an interim release between Beta 1 & Beta 2, Build 5231 is now up on MSDN for subscribers (both 32bit & 64bit). It contains Windows Media Player 11, a new version of IE7 and a few other bits and pieces – some more screenshots to follow tomorrow once I’ve installed it.
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