February 2007 - Posts
Call me a control freak, but I really dislike the magical aspects of VS 2005 & ASP.NET 2.0. You know, the times where HAL VS2005 says "We'll fix that up for you, don't worry how". Or "You don't have to write code, just give
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I've tried Orbitz and Expedia, but today I was reminded by Terri-without-a-blog about www.sidestep.com . If you haven't tried it yet, they are very cool. It appears that they search everybody else's flight site (I bet they have to be quite
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Some of my web sites hosted on ORCS Web have recently moved to a new server. There are a few sites running from the same IP using ISAPI Rewrite, so ORCS Web kindly sent me a new hosts file to do the tests. But of course hosts doesn't work on my machine,
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Steve Schofield at ORCS Web just pointed me to a very worrying article: Why Outlook 2007 is slow: Microsoft’s official answer My personal PST is 2.6gb. I am going to SHIT A BRICK if this is true - can Outlook 2007 really be worse than 2003 with
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Since I installed Office 2007 one of my POP3 accounts has been incredibly slow, so today I performed an experiment to start tracking it down. I set my email alias to point to two POP3 accounts on the SmarterMail server, then left it untouched for the
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Very nice post by Dan: How to judge a Web Shop by its cover Dugg! ASP.NET 3.5 Web Hosting: 3 Months FREE + FREE Setup - CLICK HERE!
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I'm almost the proud owner of another "interesting" car. And bizarrely, it is coming from the same town that I bought my daily driver '64 Catalina convertible - Dallas-Fort Worth. Although it wasn't planned this way, it's another
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When I asked if I should install Vista and/or Office 2007 , I really didn't know what to expect. Geeks can be funny, and although wanting to install all the latest doo-dads is common I've heard a lot of whinging about Vista. In the end, I just
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