Couldn’t resist. Saw this on the Yahoo News feed today, regarding the Katherine floods:
Canadian Press - DARWIN, Australia (AP) - Helicopters plucked stranded residents from flooded homes and police standing in waist-deep water directed traffic Thursday as a river swollen by monsoon rains inundated one of northern Australia’s biggest towns.
Katherine? One of northern Australia’s biggest towns? Admittedly there’s not a LOT of towns in northern Oz, but…
I know my limits, and other people should know theirs…
Just had my first experience at an auction, and it was mostly satisfying. All the equipment at my workplace no longer needed was auctioned today, and out of the two items I was after, I walked away with a very nice workbench for the shed for the princely sum of $20. There was a slide projector going as well, and I decided not to bid any more than $70 for it. Needless to say, it went to $70 exactly, but not my way. Funny thing is, the guy that bought it only wanted to pay half that amount but got carried away. If I’d gone to $75, he would have let me have it. Oh well, stuff happens. Now I’ve just got to work out how to get the workbench home…
What if Microsoft redesigned the iPod packaging?
Very nicely done parody. Clicky!
Version 2.0 of Preach It! has been uploaded to the project page on Sourceforge. Also, the source code has been uploaded to Sourceforge’s Subversion system. Next job is to create a web site for the project and start advertising…
Subversion is now available on Sourceforge
Sourceforge have just made an announcement that Subversion is now available for all projects. More details here…
Just realised that last Wednesday marked the first anniversary of The Dancing Poodle blog! Three hundred and seventy three days and 115 posts later, I think I still only have three regular readers (Hi to Glenn, Sim’ and Hannah). Oh well, it keeps me sane. That, and the friendship I share with my collection of singing potatoes…
Here goes another year…
If a buck can be made, someone will try. On the Encyclopedia Obscura site, there’s a reference to Dr. Evil’s Bag of Shhh. I’ll let them explain…
“Remember the scene in Austin Powers when Dr. Evil tells his son that he’s got a bag full of shhh? Well, guess what, now you can own one too! If you squeeze this bag, it will - you got it - say shhh!
. . .
Who the hell thought this was a good idea?! It can’t possibly entertain anyone for more than ninety seconds, and if word gets out you’ve bought crap like this, even your own mother will disown you. This is the kind of thing your thirteen years old cousin buys for himself, gets bored with, and then gives to you when Christmas comes around.”
Windows Defender beta 2 released
Windows Defender is the name Microsoft have given their updated Anti Spyware package, and it’s available for free download.
Funny about the name - I seem to recall a story not so long ago about an Aussie guy (I think) who had written a program called Windows Defender, and was approached by Microsoft warning him off the use of the name, “not that we have any immediate plans for that name…”
Anyway, despite the naming issue, the software seems pretty good at first glance…
I’ve uploaded an installer for Preach It! (v1.3), software designed for recording church sermons and converting to MP3, for the purposes of podcasting and archiving. Samples of the output of this program can be found here, or subscribe using iTunes using this link.
The file is available from the project’s SourceForge page, and is a Click-Once deployment. Should work fine, but seems to need the full DirectX SDK installed to work correctly. Not sure why - if anyone has any clues, please let me know. There’s a few software changes I want to do before I put source code up, but it shouldn’t be too far away.
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 - Update
Found something interesting this morning on IE 7. I was complaining they didn’t include something akin Firefox’s SessionSaver plugin. Well, turns out I was wrong. Upon session restart, just right-click in the tab row (above the main window) and choose ‘Restore Last Tab Group’. Cool! Possibly even better than Firefox, it allows the choice of restoring the last session or not.
Not that I’m saying that IE7 is better than Firefox. They just got a couple of features right.
(Obviously they copied Firefox - don’t flame me…)
8P
