My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Retirement Calculators

November 07, 2007
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Every year or so I really get worried about how much I am saving, or indeed how much I am spending and I tend to go ...

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Zune Service Update

November 06, 2007
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Got this update through the mail and I am really looking forward to the firmware and software update. Technorati tags: ...

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BEX Upload and Download Speed

November 05, 2007
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After reading about Mr Hanselman's shiny new house and more impressively the new upload (15Mbps) and download speeds ...

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Windows Media Center

November 05, 2007
1 min read

I now have two Vista machines at home (and one XP) and I am really digging Windows Media Center. I am looking at ...

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VB6 to C# - Removing unprintable characters

October 26, 2007
1 min read

I have doing a little too much work with legacy code (Visual Basic 6) recently, I was actually a better than good VB6 ...

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Drop a Stored Procedure

October 11, 2007
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My brain seems to be freezing on DB related situations, any way I forgot how to check for the existence of a stored ...

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Lutz Roeders's .NET Reflector

October 08, 2007
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I had been saving this blog for a while gathering information on additional plug-ins, however, with the release of the ...

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Zune update is almost here

October 03, 2007
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I am anticipating the new Zune firmware update will be here round about the same time that Zune 2 hardware begins to ...

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iPhone the Brick

October 01, 2007
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John Lech Johansen is a genius, as one of the more infamous hardware hackers in Europe (he may be State side now) he ...

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