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Tim Gaunt

Deleting "Ghost" extensions from FireFox

Since updating Firefox to v1.5 I had a number of extensions that I couldn’t remove from the list because they were greyed out, this was somewhat irritating as I had the later versions installed too and so I was getting duplicates (see below) Today I decided to see

A simple tale

A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and

Prank Caller

I was sent this comedy prank call this morning so thought I'd share it... Demolition Girl prank caller (DemolitionGirl.mp3)

Vista headaches already –and it's not even released yet!

I installed a copy of Vista onto a Virtual PC for testing purposes and due to the way this PC is configured Virtual PC always catches me out and sets the default network adaptor as my VPN which means I can’t get any internet connectivity on the Virtual PC,

Atlas – AJAX Update issues (Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.Web.Extensions.Design)

Being a fair way into an application that relies heavily on Atlas I wasn’t best pleased to hear that Microsoft had done the usual comedy act of renaming the framework which would mean we’d have to update a plethora of controls. Today we bit the bullet and along

Making sense of database responses

We're nearing the end of a large system for the lovely people over at Consolidated Communications Management Ltd and we've just come across a nice idea to make sense of database responses. Typically in the past we've simply returned -1/0 for failure and

The 300 mile club -I'm finally in!

I’ve been a member of the RX-8 Owners Club since I bought the 8 –a little sad but there’s great discounts and help on the forums so I thought it was worth the £30pa, anyhow, they’ve had the converted 300mile club on the forum for a while

Setup.exe

I'm forever downloading application trials to see how other developers write applications, partly out of curiosity but moreover to improve applications we’re developing –seeing what we’ve left out, how we may be able to do it better etc. I keep a fairly clear desktop but today

ASP.Net WebException and Error Reporting useful code

I’ve been including Phil Winstanley’s error reporting code (http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/archive/2004/04/17/114984.aspx) in our projects for quite some time now and it’s become an invaluable resource when debugging site exceptions both while developing and on live sites. Since the initial

The housing market's gone mad

Matt Smith sent me this today which made me laugh, the housing market really as gone crazy...http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&pid=605998&agentid=04438 £95,000 sounds a bargain to me!