My trusty Garmin 305 died a sudden and unexpected death earlier this month. After a great run with my running club, I sync’d up, and forgot about it. When I next went to go running, it didn’t respond, despite trying the reset buttons, and even letting it sit about for days trying to drain the […]
The joys of writing a weblog. A marketing company associated with Salomon have been in touch with me as a result of my weblog and are I’m surprised to discover, inviting me to test out a pair of their new XT Wings trail shoes. I’m also getting a free N82 phone (I suspect on loan, […]
Finishing up with a client recently has meant that hardware VPN/firewall/router I used to get access their network needed to be unplugged, and I thought it was high time I did a refresh of my home network. So I’ve plumbed for an Apple Time Capsule as the main wireless access device, and a Netgear DG834G router, but […]
I’ve needed a few diversions away from worrying about our forthcoming wedding (I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help it, so many people coming so far, for us, it’s difficult not to), so the last day or two I’ve been doing a few purely geeky things, some of which are long overdue. Most obviously, you’ll […]
My day job, as an infrastructure consultant, necessitates that I need to know lots of different passwords, almost all of which are very important to keep secure - they give me access to business critical systems. Outside of that, I have countless accounts with websites, for shopping, networking, bank accounts, and discussion forums. As somebody who […]
A bit of a ‘meta post’ this one. I’ve been doing some tweaking and fiddling to the website over the last few days. Primarily this means there are some new ‘Chicklets’ and items in the sidebar that may be worth a browse. I wanted to just put a short post together explaining what they are, […]
One of the things I absolutely despise about Microsoft Windows is it’s counter-intuitive interface. Perhaps this is because of my years as a Mac user, but I find it infuriating that simple things like dragging a file to Outlook doesn’t create a new e-mail with that file as an attachment (as Mail.app does on OSX). […]
Despite some wariness when the product first came out in the US, I’ve been extremely happy with my iPhone since buying it. The recent 1.1.3 update brought along a few extra features that were missing (most notably multi-recipient texts), but the device has slotted in to my life extremely well. I can’t wait until the […]
One of the developers I support recently came across the following error message in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (SP4): Server: Msg 8104, Level 16, State 2, Line 1The current user is not the database or object owner of table ‘table_name’. Cannot perform SET operation. Unfortunately, there’s little out on the interwebs about this beyond references to a […]
Bits and pieces
All go at the moment, so only time for a brief update: Wedding plans are proceeding well. We’re being cautioned by friends to stay calm as the day approaches, and I think we are managing that quite well. Got quite excited picking up the rings, as well as getting to see the finished product for something […]