Archive for February, 2005

WordPress 1.5 (codename: strayhorn) is out!

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Cool, the new version we’ve all heard so much about has finally been released. Ok, there have been nightly builds available of 1.5, but today marks the release of the stable version of 1.5. One of the big changes in my mind is the move to use themes. Looking at wordpress today, and looking at [...]

RFID Tags and Extending AFL Goal Posts

Monday, February 14th, 2005

While on my way to work this morning, I was listening to SEN and there was some talk about the AFL extending the goal posts at various venues around Australia. I remember the last time they were talking about this on the radio, and I remembered what I was thinking about at that time. I [...]

Preventing multiple logins in ASP.NET

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Just came across this article, it may be useful later on. So pasting it here. http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20030418.asp Article talks about how to ensure a user can only login once with the same username/password at one location.

Happy Chinese New Year

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

[Chinese Characters] 新年快乐 [Pronunciation] Xin Nian Kuai Le [English Meaning] Happy New Year Today, Tuesday 8th of February 2005 is Chinese New Years eve. Traditionally, Chinese families all gather around on this final day of the year for a family dinner. Family members do try their best to come home for Chinese New Year, and [...]

Rory needs to get to Australia!

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Looks like Rory needs some sponsorship help to get down to Australia for TechEd 2005. Any ideas how we can get Rory out here for TechEd? My suggestion at this stage is to auction off some unique cartoon drawings that can be found quite often on his blog. (Well, new ones of course!) But I [...]

Workflow Capabilites for next version of Office

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

“big move toward built-in workflow capabilities.” [this is in regards to the next version of Office] via (source: seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog This built-in workflow capability sounds like WinOE (Windows Orchestration Engine, something I mentioned here). Actually, one of the articles I linked to state “Office 12 and the next SharePoint Portal Server are targeted to [...]

more spam stuff

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Matters of spam of all sorts, comment spam, referrer spam, trackback spam… all look like they are targetting bloggers of all sorts… What’s next on the list? Anyway, out of curiosity, I decided to do domain whois on the various referrer spam URLs, as well as visit their actual domain (not the subdomain they actually [...]

Melbourne Geek Dinner

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

Let’s see if we can organise a dinner to happen straight after the Microsoft Security Summit in Melbourne on Tuesday February 22nd. There’s sure to be plenty of interesting conversation going around on the table and such. Anyone with ideas on a venue, and who wants to come? Here’s the full agenda for the day, [...]

The TabletPC needs more publicity

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

Was just reading Mikal Stills’ blog post and then read Steve Rubel’s post. I agree, the TabletPC needs more and better publicity. I was going to leave a comment on Robert’s blog yesterday, but I think i’ll just post some of it here. I’ve been looking at purchasing the TabletPC for the past couple of [...]

ASP.NET Drop Down List with Color

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

For future reference… http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/HtmlColorDropDown.asp Useful, may need the URL later so pasting it here