Before I even started using Vista, I hated UAC. I read about it all over the place, and laughed at the stupidity involved in asking users to constantly “cancel or allow” every action they wanted to take. As soon as I was forced to use Vista for work (both on my work laptop and on site with the client) I turned off UAC on both installations. Read the rest of this entry »
Xavier Rudd has hit the nail on the head with that song. It’s becoming more and more evident that our cash isn’t going as far as it used to.
It has been very difficult not to notice that the cost of everything we do is just sky-rocketing. Today, after another extremely expensive trip to the shops, it hit me full in the face. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been thinking about building a web application or two for a while, but I haven’t yet found the time to invest. I don’t think this is going to change very soon either. I’m not the kind of person who usually likes to get stuck into something unless I know I’ve got a couple of hours up my sleeve so that I feel I can get something done, and this has been preventing me from doing anything because I don’t ever feel like I have a couple of hours spare. Having a child means that you could have as little as 5 minutes before all hell breaks loose.
Instead of whinging about it, I’ve decided to go against my usual grain and take those 5 minute chunks as a chance to do something. This is the first step 
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A little while ago I posted about some new hardware that I bought. In that update I mentioned that I’d bought a new keyboard because my old one was a bit shaky and had the old UK layout which was no longer valid since I have now returned to Australia. Read the rest of this entry »
WARNING! This post contains a spoiler for Problem #6 listed at Project Euler. Do not read the rest of this post if you’re planning to attempt to solve the problem yourself. Read the rest of this entry »
WARNING! This post contains a spoiler for Problem #5 listed at Project Euler. Do not read the rest of this post if you’re planning to attempt to solve the problem yourself. Read the rest of this entry »
I just wanted to crank out a quick post to point any fellow Wordpress at a really nice plugin. If you don’t use it, or don’t have any interest in it, then don’t bother with the rest of this post Read the rest of this entry »
After publishing the performance stats of my previous solution to Project Euler #4, I got thinking about how I might improve things. I didn’t want to be overly anal with regards to things such as memory allocations, because it’s easy to get stuck in the perpetual loop of attempted optimisations. Instead I wanted to think of a method that wasn’t as brute force as the previous one. If you’re interested to see what I did, read on (Note: This is a spoiler for the problem, just like the last post was). Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve just played with a few settings in my Feeburner account for the main article feed from this blog. One of the things that I’ve added is a daily list of links that I’ve added to del.icio.us which I think are interesting. Most of those links are tech related, but every now and then I throw something in that I find amusing and want to be able to find again.
I added this to the feed in case you guys might find it interesting. Let me know if it’s annoying/crap/etc. If it drives you batty, I’ll turn it off!
Cheers!
WARNING! This post contains a spoiler for Problem #4 listed at Project Euler. Do not read the rest of this post if you’re planning to attempt to solve the problem yourself. Read the rest of this entry »
