My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Why you should never buy music with DRM!

April 22, 2008
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I got this mail from MSN Music this morning, and it confirmed to me that DRM is simply not for me. I will happily pay a ...

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Why does a University change its name?

April 21, 2008
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I have been a proud graduate of the University of Central England in Birmingham (UCE), I have enjoyed my alumni status ...

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SQL to XSD Data type mapping

April 14, 2008
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I am not sure what it is with developers but every single employer I have worked for seems to present me with another ...

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St. Baldrick's Foundation

April 09, 2008
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A colleague of mine has taken the noble and, simultaneously, entertaining opportunity to shave his head in support of ...

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Microsoft Error Reporting

April 07, 2008
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When crashes occur in the Windows XP environment there has always been this aggravating error reporting popup that ...

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ieHTTPHeaders 2.0

April 04, 2008
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I have been a fan of the ieHTTPHeaders (v1.6) application for a couple of years now, it has been my HTTP sniffer of ...

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.NET Debugging Labs

April 03, 2008
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There are a great set of troubleshooting labs for .NET, seven in all, over at Tess' blog. It deals with different ...

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Time for a new phone

April 02, 2008
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I am taking a much more active look at the mobile\smart phone scene. I have been very happy with the quality of service ...

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The cost of free software...

April 01, 2008
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I understand nothing is really free, and in fact the cost of this Java runtime update would probably be staggering in ...

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