The Property Ladder
My girlfriend and I got the keys to our first house on Friday. It was somewhat strange walking around the place and finding stuff the previous owners...
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Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
I've been asked to put together a large website at work. Microsoft Internet Explorer is the only target browser, and I've been asked to use C# and...
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I'm excited...
...about Nintendo's Wii. The console, the games, the price and the features are all looking very special. $250 dollars for a next gen console? Woot!
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Happy Escape from the Womb Anniversary!
Today I reached a quarter of a century. Happy Birthday to me!
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Pipo, Meetings, Insurance
I think Pipo stumbled across his early Christmas present.On a totally different subject, I'm really enjoying the work culture of my new job (I've...
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Paint a Beard on My Avatar and Call Me Santa!
One of the great bonuses of becoming a staff member is that I get the GDNet+ membership along with all of its benefits for free. As I'd already paid...
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Who put the Mock in Democracy?
I've been a staff member on GDNet for 5 days and I didn't break it! Woohoo. Of course, if anyone wants to volunteer, I need to practise suspending...
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Mortgage, Scrounging, Wikipedia, What News Editors Do
We put an offer in on the house we like last week and it was accepted. On Thursday we applied for a mortgage and set the solicitor/surveyor wheels in...
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April Fools Prank, Obligatory Website Changes
Yesterday's April fools prank went down well for the most part. If you haven't already seen it then read the following news item: EA Shape the Future...
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RSS Feed
I've spent the last 60 minutes becoming familiar with RSS, Cron Jobs and a WordPress plugin, appropriately named FeedWordPress.The upshot of all this...
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Spam, Staff Title and a New Icon
During the Game Developers Conference, with about fifteen press releases to sift through every day, I forgot to post the rumour that Mr. News At...
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Press Releases, Slow News, Menus and Movie Scores
My role as GameDev.net Minister of Propaganda (OK, "News Editor") is an interesting one.Not only do I have an excuse to stay up to date on industry...
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I Need a Rest
Soooooo, 6 weeks on the GDNet News Team. Has anyone noticed a difference in the quality of news on the front page? I hope so, cos I've been putting...
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Busy, Busy, Busy ...
I was offered two new jobs within the last week:Firstly, I've been given a "Business Analyst" position working for the IT department at HBOS...
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Deja Vu!
Avatar God somehow managed to get this surveillance shot of me:I have to say that as I climbed to the top of the tower and began swiping my fists at...
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Task Inventory...
I made a few cosmetic chenges to my Task Inventory. The tasks are now in seperate lists for different areas and there is a front page that lists how...
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Terms & Conditions
You must read and agree to the terms and conditions set out in this document before continuing to peruse this journal.PREAMBLEThis document describes...
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World's Simplest Task Scheduler
I just made the simplest Task Scheduler in the world. You can mock it, and my very existence, here.
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A Quickie...
I love the feeling of starting a new project. The well laid out directory structure, the empty bug list, the virginal source folder ... it feels a...
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