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Today, my faithful Lacie 2Big NAS box which has served me reasonably well for a number of years had a bit of a problem. The box is a simple device which in my case has 2x500GB hard drives in it and runs them in a mirrored (RAID1) configuration so that if a drive fails you simply take it out, drop in...
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A bit embarrassing but a while ago one of my former managers encouraged me to use Google Analytics to measure the traffic that’s hitting this site. To be fair, it works pretty well and I’ve now got a few years’ worth of data so that I can do comparisons from year to year. I’ve recently reviewed what...
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While working at home today I was “lucky” enough to get a call from one of those scammers who rings your house and offers you technical assistance with your PC. There’s a decent write-up over here on the Guardian’s website of the sort of scam we’re talking about and there are some examples over here...
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As we head into 2011, I’m running a whole bunch of kit with the main items being; Phone I’ve had the HTC Mozart running Windows Phone 7 for about 5-6 weeks now and I’m really loving it – mainly I’m using it as a phone (!) and I’m finding that performance, battery life, voice and text are all really strong...
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“Happy Birthday to me” I’m not sure about the “Star Wars” theme but the 10 fits the mark. It’s 10 years to the day since I joined Microsoft in the UK. Prior to joining Microsoft I’d had 6 (“proper”) jobs and the most time I’d managed to stay in any one of them was 3 years. One lasted as little as 6 months...
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Just a quick call-out for a page I visit from time to time on TechRadar. “ 48 best free software downloads from Microsoft ” It’s been there a while but I had cause to revisit it today to find out more about the free “Learning Content Development System” which is something you might want to try if you...
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I’ve been running this blog for around 6-7 years and for a long time I hosted on WebHost4Life. It was great. Cheap and cheerful hosting that worked fine for me. Then a number of months ago they seemed to get bought up and it all went wrong. An automatic migration process didn’t work. The ( previously...
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An unusually quiet time on the blogging front for me – apologies but I’ve been a little “busy” :-) Along with John , I delivered a Silverlight workshop at MIX10 which was a lot of fun and the feedback was great ( thanks if you came along ) but it involved a bunch of effort as it was a bit of a “one-off...
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Just a quick plea. I’ve re-hosted my website with a new hoster so if you spot problems with the site please let me know as I’ll have no doubt forgotten to switch something on or off. Thanks. Normal service should now resume :-)
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I’ve been to lots of conferences or meetings where people (Microsoft or not) are delivering technical sessions relating to Microsoft technology. I’ve also spoken at lots of those things as well. A recurring problem is getting feedback. Sometimes it’s a long paper-based form to fill in. Sometimes it’s...
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I was reviewing the traffic figures that my hoster ( http://www.webhost4life.com ) gives me for this blog site and I thought I’d share. This is how 2009 ended; So around ~30M hits to around ~15M pages and just under 1TB of data shifted across the network. Those are much bigger numbers than I’d have expected...
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I picked this up via Ian as a great resource for fonts so just blogging it here to avoid losing it; I’m browsing the most downloaded as I write this….
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Quick test post – I’ve spotted a problem with blog code formatting for examples such as; static void Main() { int[] array = new int[10]; int i = 5; int value = array[i]; } which my code formatter appears to put out as; static void Main() { int...
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Just a quick follow up to all the people who were kind enough to donate in response to my post here in case you were thinking that I’d chickened out of the run and pocketed the donations :-) In the end, my run profile looked like this; http://www.nike.com/europerunning/grs/index.jsp?runner=746340&rid...
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There’s a bunch of things that I feel I need to know a whole lot more about so I thought I’d write it down. This is my current list of technologies that are buzzing around in my head, nagging me to spend time on them. Azure Services Platform - Microsoft .NET Services Azure Services Platform – Windows...