well it didn’t come easily but england have finally w on the world cup. i watched the game in nottingham with fiona and simon and although it was great you wouldn’t want to go through that very often. i don’t think i have ever seen such a tense game of rugby. and for once we …
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gadget
this looks excellent. i have been looking for something like it for a long time as my mp3 collection continues to expand rapidly and the only other way of listening to it is via the ipod which although great is not ideal for when i am in my lounge.
original
i want to see the original letter which led to a humorous (believe it or not) reply from the tax man.
choice
england win once and lose twice. guess which one i care about most? a bit of a relaxing weekend all round. finally got around to seeing matrix revolutions. i think the best strategy with going into the film is to expect the worst film ever made. then you might be pleasantly surprised. so much has …
useful
ned found a good link which describes how to run multiple different versions of ie on the same machine. this is a great boon for the web developer as we constantly have to handle the different restrictions that each browser has. for example, a .net system that i am involved with works flawlessly on ie6.0 …
committed
e d’s blog has a link to an interesting article about the new lotus workplace launch. most interesting from my point of view, though, is the apparent commitment to at least a version 8.x of notes/domino which should see me in work for a few more years yet. on a slightly more geeky note, bill …
upgrade
i have finally got around to upgrading my dev server at home to use windows server 2003. it all went pretty smoothly barring the usual hunt for device drivers. the only issue now is that the networking seems a bit slow. there are so many points of failure in my set up that it is …
order
“I am, therefore I think.” Isn’t that putting Descartes before the horse?
confidentiality
jake has sparked a discus sion about confidentiality and intellectual property in the it industry. my own feeling is that any code written on the clients time is their property but it is impossible to police the thoughts and activity of the developer in their own time so people just have to be grown up …
death
the death of ir35? it certainly seems so
Matt White 