Clipmarks
The Clipmarks plugin for Firefox lets you select exactly which parts of a webpage, including videos and images, you want to clip and lets you send them by email or post them to your blog or simply save them for later.
Happy New Year
Best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. We counted down to the new year in Pub Cardinal Akasaka after an all-you-can eat Shabu-shabu just down the road. Karaoke until 5am made it a very enjoyable night, although we’d all lost our voices the next day for some reason.
Happy Christmas from Taiwan
I took a few days off work and we went to Taiwan for Christmas. It was great, even though it was unusually cold and wet.
The guided tour the first day brought us up one of the many mountains, then after lunch, where we unfortunately didn’t get to try the Ma Poo, we were just in time to see the changing of the guard at the Martyrs’ Shrine, followed by a quick dash around the National Palace Museum to see the Jade Cabbage and Rock Slab of Meat!
Windows XP SP3 Now Available
Windows XP Service Pack 3 is now available for download from Windows Update.
See the Technet article on installing Windows SP3. Note that they recommend having WinXP SP2 installed before installing SP3.
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Hiroko Mima - Miss Universe Japan 2008
Hiroko Mima has won the 2008 Miss Universe Japan. Hiroko, a university student and athlete from Tokushima in Western Japan, was selected from amongst 9 other beautiful ladies to represent Japan at the Miss Universe competition in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 14 later this year.
Having had the pleasure of meeting Hiroko, and two of the other competitors, Kana Anan and Yoshimi Sato, at the Emerald Ball in March, I can honestly say that the photos do not do them justice. The girls are much more beautiful in real life, and after putting up with 20 drunken Irish young lads at the Westin Hotel, they are great sports too.
More photos after the link
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Grid-links
Grid-links is a new site that can help advertise your pages. For as little as $1.99 you can display your webpage to 100 members and, even better, an unlimited number of non-members. If you want more traffic to your website, try the 100 visits package for starters.
How to fix txtsetup.sif is corrupt
The other day I was trying to get an unattended Windows XP CD to work in a virtual machine, but by mistake I ran it on my physical PC instead, doh! I thought I canceled it in time, before it had a chance to do any damage to my Windows installation, and I was able to continue using the PC as usual.
But when I rebooted my PC today it displayed the following error:
INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 14.
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.