Archive for November, 2004

Automatic vs Manual Drivers?

Friday, November 19th, 2004

Ok, after reading this blog post by Bill McCarthy, i’m going to ask this question… How many VB.NET developers out there drive Automatics? And, how many C# developers out there drive Manuals? I’m normally a C# developer, but I don’t mind diving into VB.NET if needed. And I drive manual, but don’t mind driving a [...]

Excess computer usage could lead to blindness

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

As the title suggests… more on neowin.net. Ok, well, let’s all try to take more breaks from lookin at the computer all the time. If you touch type, i’m sure sometimes you can very well close your eyes and keep typing (as i’m doing right now!). As always frequent breaks from looking at the computer [...]

Skype API Beta

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

Looks like the Skype API is in Beta at the moment. There’s mass potential in there for people to go out and do great stuff with it! Perhaps to excite the .NET crowd, someone could create a Managed wrapper for the APIs? Check out the Skype Developer Zone. One of the beauties of Skype is [...]

Report warns on (IT) accreditation plan

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

Here’s a link to the article in today’s “The Age” newspaper (free registration required to view article).

Lundin – The meal in between lunch and dinner

Wednesday, November 10th, 2004

Was just chatting to a friend on MSN and we came up with a new word: Lundin Ok, so what is Lundin? It’s the meal in between Lunch and Dinner. (LunchDinner) Just like how Brunch is the meal in between Breakfast and Lunch, so we decided we needed a word to describe the meal in [...]

Sleep Deprivation

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

I’m always feeling tired. Especially as the day wears on. I think one of the reasons behind it, is due to my lack of sleep. These days I’m up by 6am, and off to work by 7am. Although this is a big change in wakeup time compared to uni days, i’m still sleeping quite late, [...]

Konfabulator for Windows

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

- Grab it now! – What is it? – Why I like it? It looks nice I’m just browsing through the widget gallery right now, and it looks quite interesting. Konfabulator was originally developed for MacOSX, but now they have released a Windows version. I was just reading The Tablet PCs Weblog and saw it [...]

Australian Blogging Conference February 2005!

Friday, November 5th, 2004

If you’re an Australian, and you’re into blogging, why not attend the Blogging Conference? More info here. I’ve had a look via Google, and it doesn’t look like many of the blogs in the Aussie Blogosphere have mentioned it. Maybe it’s time to up the Google Juice, and do some more promotion. Perhaps try to [...]

Profile of blogs

Friday, November 5th, 2004

By chance, I just browsed upon a website that has done an overview of blogging. It has categorised a few different profiles of blogs such as: – Discussion of types of blogs and tools to publish blogs – Enterprise Blogging – Life blogs There are more topics on the website, and judging by the domain, [...]

Jobs Blog! The aussie version

Friday, November 5th, 2004

Just noticed this just now, it’s the Australian Microsoft Recruitment Web Log. That’s a mouthful, so i’m going to just refer to it as oz-job-blog. They have 3 recruiters (Julie Brown, Finuala Hattori and James Howison), so it’s a bigger team than the original jobs blog. I’ve already subscribed to it via RSS in anticipation [...]