Wow, China just blocked all of Google’s sites. Literally just now – stunning, though hardly the last word. 31-03-2010 12:53am Beijing Time – Blocked31-03-2010 ~10:20am Beijing Time – Not Blocked Interestingly, Google is not blocked at the moment, perhaps what we had a taste of last night was a test […]
Monthly archives: March 2010
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We’re a little unclear whether (Australian) Senator Conroy hasn’t been sniffing Liquid Ink (white out) between media engagements, take for example this great quote from the weekend: [1] "When you publish a list of titles of books that are banned, or movies that are banned, you don’t give access to […]
There’s been a whole lot more press on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement since the leak earlier this week. The treaty, which has been debated amidst tight security remains officially undisclosed to any public forum. In light of the recent leak, there has been a very interesting opinion piece posted […]
There’s going to be more to this in coming posts, but I thought I’d add all the articles I’ve been reading ahead of schedule. The long and short of the story is this – I’ve managed to implement round trip CRUD operations using POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) using a […]
I’m incredibly proud that someone with some integrity has had the guts to leak the entire text (including latest edits as of January 2010) of what seems to be a latter-stages revision of the not-quite-secret, but “smells bad to me” trade agreement, the ACTA. You can find a copy of […]
Well, as part of the typically moronic strategy for Windows Mobile devices comes word out of the recent MIX conference that Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Mobile 7 or “Windows Phone” will not support native applications, according to this quote from PC World: [1] “Microsoft will only support development of applications running […]
If you are running a copy of any version of Windows since Windows Vista (i.e. Vista or Windows 7) you might be somewhat aware that the Windows folder on your system drive is quite large. Indeed, it is most likely to be the largest consumer of disk space on that […]
Although many people have said it before, we can now label Obama as nothing but a cheap suit. Taking to office with a huge mandate for change, we’ve seen nothing but a Kevin Rudd style all-talk-no-substance approach to governance, which recently culminated with this unsurprising speech backing the ACTA, MPAA […]
As a dot-com bust survivor, 2010 marks a particularly sensitive anniversary for myself and, no doubt, many other Information Technology workers. This time, ten years ago, I worked as a programmer for a company called K*Grind (www.kgrind.com) which, at the time, was aimed at providing high quality media content aimed […]
Some refreshingly good news for a change – news in that the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly against the controversial anti-copyright trade agreement (ACTA) today, 663-13. The agreement, being debated in strict secrecy has been previously discussed on this blog and what we know if its provisions is chillingly disturbing. Countries […]
Today I learnt an important lesson about moving a PC from one Active Directory domain to another – the process will strip (domain) logins from SQL Server! Yes, I know this is kind of obvious and expected, but also easy to overlook. So our scenario is that we don’t have […]
Today I have been modifying a very repetitious SSIS package which does bulk import of data form a flat file. The Data Import Wizard is a pain when you want to import the same format but from different source files, especially since it is unstable and tends to crash when […]
4ell for a while today, I’ve been trying to find a way to execute a specific dynamic query with the Entity Framework v4 – a query which could be used on a variety of different tables. I have a series of tables which share a common column definition (lets call […]
As some of you already know we have decided to live in China and study Mandarin and have arrived tonight in Shanghai. We put our belongings into storage and made our final trip to New South Wales last week. Today (3/3/10) we left Sydney for the orient. My wife and […]