OJ’s rants

I was browsing through my Google Analytics stats earlier and thought it’d be interesting to browse through search terms that resulted in a hit on my site.

Man, there are some crazy entries! Continued →

Here’s another reason why I find Google Reader a excellent choice for reading your RSS feeds.

Most of us have a collection of feeds that contain similar subject matter. As a geek, most of my feeds are geek-related. As a geek who likes to stay up to speed, I also like to know what other blogs and feeds are good to read.

This is where Google Reader’s Top Recommendations come in. Google do a great job of throwing other feeds in your face that you might like to read based on the kind of stuff that you’ve already subscribed to. Continued →

… is hearing your Son laugh out loud for the first time.

Solid gold.

There comes a time in every ASP.NET developer’s life when the need arises for information to be persisted into ViewState. For the sake of this post I’m not really interested in the reasons why. What I am interested in is how.

How do you interact with your ViewState? Continued →

It has been a long time coming (somewhere around the 70 year mark - I think the last time was 1939) but we finally got there. Pompey made it to the FA Cup final. Not only did we get there, but we managed to beat the opposition, Cardiff, 1 - 0.

Yes, this is one of the few times I’ll ever admit to being born anywhere near Portsmouth It’s good to see the lads come up with a win after a pretty good run in the Premier League in the last couple of years. This year we finished 8th, which is great. Hopefully next year we’ll continue to improve and get closer to those precious spots that’ll allow us to play in Europe.

Well done lads

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for well over a year now, but for some reason I never got round to it. This came up in conversation the other day with a couple of workmates and it prompted me to revisit the issue.

Have you ever fired up an application on Windows XP and got the following error?

The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Informative isn’t it! What about if you fire up the same application on Windows Vista?

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail.

This does tell us a little bit more about the problem, but not a lot more. Continued →

I’ve just come back from another run and again I’m feeling good. I did the same route as yesterday, but 6 minutes slower. It was encouraging that I didn’t feel out of breath or overly tired, the thing that got me was sore legs!

Tomorrow is going to be a rest day because I have to go and do a certification exam during lunch time which is a bit annoying. Hopefully Wednesday lunch time I’ll be rested up and ready to take on the lunchtime route again. It’s tempting to try and beat my best time every time I run, but I should be focussing on keeping my heart rate low.

Now it’s time to prep some dinner for the family

PS. I do have some geek posts in the works, so don’t lose hope!

Since before signing up for the marathon I’ve been making sure that I do my running training regularly. I’m currently doing at least 4 runs during the week, pushing for 5 (all during lunch times). The route that I run around the city is approximately 6.2km, which is a good distance to cover while still having time either side of the run for prepration and showering up so that I don’t offend my coworkers. Continued →

Regular readers of Dilbert are currently kicking and screaming about the site’s new Flash-based design. Personally I don’t mind it, but at the end of the day it matters not.

Why? Continued →

After more than 3 years on the bench I’ve decided to take the plunge again. Today I signed up for the Gold Coast Airport Marathon. The event will be held on the 6th July ‘08 — which from today means I have a total of 80 more days to prepare.

I’ve been back into running training for a few weeks now, and have been really enjoying it. Lunch time runs are really helping since I don’t have a great deal of time in the evenings to run. Continued →