So, this morning I was pulled up behind another car at an intersection, waiting to turn. And he reverses into me. Brilliant. No significant damage, of course – a tiny dint in the bumper and a rather deformed number plate, but nothing a few minutes with some pliers and a hammer won’t fix. Still, it… Read more
So for ENT we’re supposed to get the Myers-Briggs profiles of each team member. I noted a while back that I was looking at this sort of stuff. At the time I didn’t find a free online Myers-Briggs test; thanks to Rob, I now have. And the results are in, I’m INTJ. Reading through it,… Read more
You know what’s really annoying? When you’re just sitting down, finishing off a rather enjoyable meal, only to look down at what little remains and realise it’s got a nice little larval slug thing in it. Just lovely. So, I think I’ll skip the cobbed corn for a little bit. The Birds Eye variety, at… Read more
I think I should start a whole extra category for my car. Hmm. Anyway, given that we actually had relatively nice weather today, I got out and fiddled with my car for a bit. I fixed the clock & interior light; they’re both on the same fuse, which had blown. I guess frequently connecting &… Read more
So, here I am, trying to do some work and all that, and I start downloading something over a VPN connection. Then I notice that Activity Monitor’s claiming 90k/s. On a 50k/s ADSL connection. Awesome! I guess I’m not surprised that the VPN tunnel compresses it’s data, just that it actually works. And this is… Read more
Pop-quiz, young grasshopper… your program is about to embark on an 11-hour exodus into the land of the the eternal progress bar, but the path the user’s given you to save the result to is “invalid”. More specifically, it is actually valid, but contains directories that don’t yet exist, and for reasons beyond mortal comprehension… Read more
Okay, so, this is just too bad to let by. ComputerWorld are all excited by the newly redesigned file & print sharing in Vista. The details are here. Now, I was genuinely curious how things were being changed. About half way through the article, however, I became suspicious. For example, the Documents and Settings folder… Read more