New job!

This Thursday sees my last day in Imperial's ICT; I have escaped at last! :)

I'm starting work next week as a technical architect (it's still IT, so don't panic that I'll be creating death trap high rise buildings...) at an investment bank in the City. It's a fairly decent pay rise, but I expect it's going to be hard work :)

Time to update my biog I guess...

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CPAN

I'm now a fully fledged author on CPAN :)

My first contribution - WWW::Nike::NikePlus - a module that interfaces to the Nike+ running site which allows you to pull out all your run/goal/challenge data.

Go me.

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TANZEN!!

A travesty of eurovision-block-voting justice. Bah.

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Progress with Vista power management

Well, it's been a long running saga but things are actually getting better. I've recently found a new power management option, that governs how Vista behaves when "sharing media". I'm taking this to mean any share on the PC, not just Windows Media style automagic sharing.

Setting it to "allow the computer to sleep" (see below) has dramatically helped in that Vista now goes back to sleep when it's supposed to. So, my media centre PC now wakes up to record a show and then immediately goes back to sleep once it's finished. BRILLIANT!

I still have the little problem of it waking up at 4am every day, but we'll see if this new change helps at all. If not, then I have a little trick up my sleeve...

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Alcatel Speedouch 716 & Vista

I have a Speedtouch 716WL and use its inbuilt 802.11g wireless with a few laptops around the house. Recently I got a new Vista tablet and whilst it works great on the wirless for general email & web browsing, I've found that I can't use any SMB shares or remote desktop to any PC on my LAN from my Vista notebook. XP notebooks are fine.

If I remote desktop, it will connect to the destination machine, briefly showing the logon screen before kicking me off saying that the remote computer ended the connection. Trying to browse to SMB shares invariably causes explorer to hang.

I contacted Alcatel about it and they're aware of the problem. The resolution is to switch to using WEP instead of WPA-PSK on the speedtouch. Not a great workaround...

Update: Alcatel have got back to me and said that they're due to release new firmware "shortly" that fixes this. Appendages crossed then...

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New Nike+ watches

Now then, according to speculation back in January we were supposed to be able to get our mitts on new Nike+ watches that talk to our running shoes and our iPod yesterday.

Where are they, eh?

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