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Tim Gaunt

Jehovah witnesses

Having lived in Cornwall for most of my life I had never encountered a Jehovah witness before and before moving up to Birmingham I think I’d only had 2 encounters –both in someone else’s flat so we invited them in for a chat (the usual studenty type malarkey

Seeing Orange

I don’t know about you but I had always thought Orange were the mutt’s nuts when it came to service so after a few years on other networks we decided to give them another try as their tariffs weren’t much more expensive than the competition. All was

Sony does it again

I was a fan of the last Bravia advert partly because it featured José González but also because I was left wondering whether it was a computer render or really happened (aparently they really did it) but the new Sony Bravia advert is incredible, ok there are a few computer

Gazumped

As some of you know, we’re selling our lovely house 68 Campbell St (www.68campbellst.co.uk). The house has served us well in the past as there’s an office at the rear of the property that we can run the business from and plenty of room for

Blogging and competition

One of the reasons I started this blog was because I felt I often came across nuggets of information that someone else out there may find useful in some small way and that I should share the information where possible. I also wanted a place to store all those little

Stored Procedure to assign permissions

This is a useful stored procedure for assigning permissions to users quickly and easily. We tend to assign a new login to each application we develop, this way we limit the damage possible in the event of a username/password compromise. /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Automatically assign the role permissions --------------------------------------------------------------------------*/USE DatabaseNameSET

I’m a bot! –According to Google Anyways

While fitting my new chipset cooler fan this morning I was checking out an error message on Google (which as it turns out I knew the answer to) and I was presented with a CAPTCHA image –I guess Google’s getting a lot of automated requests. This was using the

String.Format and Input string was not in a correct format Error

I ran into (another) interesting error today when using String.Format1. I was getting the error message "Input string was not in a correct format.". In this instance I was calling the content from an XML file, the data was wrapped in CDATA tags so there shouldn'

Useful Visual Studio Plugin

On surfing around the net the other day looking for a replacement to Visual Studio 2003’s clipboard monitor I stumbled across this excellent Clipboard manager plug-in for Visual Studio 2005. As his blog was offline at the time I wasn’t sure exactly how to use it but now

IIf Issues

Sean Ronan (from Activepixels.co.uk) was asking me the other day why he was receiving a “Cannot convert ‘’ to DateTime” when writing: IIf(String.IsNullOrEmpty(DateOfBirth.Text), Nothing, CDate(DateOfBirth.Text)) Thanks to Doug Setzer from 27Seconds in pointing him in the right direction, unlike C#’s ability to