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Adobe MAX 2008

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:25:00 +0000

After my criticism of the registration for Google's IO, back in May, I felt I had to make a comparitive post about the registration for MAX. And one word comes to mind, well two actually, the first is one from my growing vocabulary of American words that I use (on purpose) more and more and that's A...

Adobe Max sneak peaks

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:45:00 +0000

It's the 'best' part of MAX, where the developers in Adobe show and tell some of the coolest stuff going on inside. There were the usual caveats that this stuff might not come to market, or if it does, it might not be quite what they show, either way these were my highlights:
Digital Asset Profil...

Ginny's Pasta

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:40:00 +0000

<p>I made this for my wife, Ginny, to cheer her up a little as she's not feeling too good at the moment. She said that she wanted a 'naughty' pasta for dinner, so I came up with this. It worked out so well, I thought I'd share it. It's actually a grown up mac 'n' cheese. This recipe is enough for tw...

New BioEthanol Process

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:40:01 +0000

I read this in a work technology email and just had to post it. It's an apparently new process, developed by a company in Florida, US, to produce ethanol from algae and sea water. They say the process does not harvest algae, but doesn't elaborate on what it does do! If the numbers are anything t...

Google IO Registration

Thu, 29 May 2008 03:15:01 +0000

Well I'm here in the Moscone center in San Francico looking at the queues of people wanting to register for Google IO. I first arrived at 8:40 and the numerous queues for registration, broken down into letter groups (I'm guessing you are looking for a match on the first letter of your last name but ...

Quick update

Thu, 08 May 2008 06:44:53 +0000

Something that's been bothering me for a long time on this site was the fact that I was using two different rendering engines for the homepage blog list and the individual item pages. The reason for this, I have no idea, I think it was one of those times where I thought I would come back and...

Xobni for Outlook Now Available

Tue, 06 May 2008 23:05:00 +0000

I know that my biggest gripe with Outlook is its inability to find stuff that you forgot to file in a structured way. Different colleagues of mine use different third party products to alleviate the pain and one such third party plugin that I know some of them use is Xobni. Xobni (inbox reversed...

All done

Sun, 04 May 2008 18:40:00 +0000

Over the past 3-4 months, Ginny and I (although mainly Ginny) have been focusing on our wedding. I haven't mentioned it on here very much as my involvement was pretty small. Ginny, being a crafter and ex Disney art director, put together an amazing day filled with lots of handmade touches. S...

We can solve it

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:31:06 +0000

<p>I just wanted to post this. I support anything that gets the voice of action on climate change heard. And this seemed like a good way, they have a video on their website that you can view, so I thought I'd put it here.

We Can Solve It

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File upload progress and CF

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:40:00 +0000

I'm working on a video project at work, where we need to provide visual feedback on a file upload. You know the sort, fill in the form, pick your file, hit submit and watch the progress bar tell you how much has been uploaded.
Well my initial thought was that ColdFusion would be able to do this, ...