things are pertty quiet at the moment which makes a pleasant change. i am taking the opportunity to catch up on various bits of reading, research, rest and recollections. a year ago i was still on my world tour and i really wish i was still there now! the weather here has not been nearly …
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visit
simon and fiona have been down for the weekend. last night there was a family meal which got rowdier by the minute as various people from the village turned up. excellent evening all round and great to see people that i don’t catch up with all that often. today has just been a very lazy …
downtime
apologies if you have had trouble getting here in the last few days, i have had some dns issues with my domain name hosting organisation. they should all be resolved now although it might take another day or two for all of the dns servers to catch up.
screen
i signed up for an internet dvd rental service at the weekend. the way it works is that i go to their website and select the dvds i want to watch, they post them out to me three at a time along with a return envelope. after watching each movie i put it in the …
purchases
i have made a few good purchases recently… on the music side of things we have: elbow – cast of thousands franz ferdinand air – talkie walkie snow patrol – final straw and for reading material: professional ibm websphere 5.0 – application server java 2 core language – little black book all are worth a …
fiefdom
i have been having a long running argument with our dba about the best way to design a new sql server / .net application which will serve up “reference data” (e.g. client lists etc) to various other applications which might be .net, domino, websphere or anything else you can think of. to me it seems …
shopping
jake raises a http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20040213?OpenDocument” >good point about e-commerce sites today. if it doesn’t work first time you won’t use the vendor again. well i tried to buy a new http://www.totalpda.co.uk/product4288_37.aspx”>pen/pda stylus combo earilier in the week from http://www.totalpda.co.uk/”>total pda. the order went through fine and i got the confirmation e-mail. only then did they mention …
useful
here is a useful little flowchart for your day to day problems.
unnecessary
i have been doing some work with java to .net web service interoperability this week. web services have the potential to be hugely powerful if they are used correctly but if you want to do something simple between java and .net and you want to use the “proper” tools (i.e. the apache axis class library or …
missing
while i was away at lotusphere it seems much more serious things were happening in my road at home.
Matt White 