Archive for 2008
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 [...]
December 26th, 2008 | Posted in Asides | No Comments
November 24th, 2008 | Posted in Asides | 5 Comments
November 1st, 2008 | Posted in Asides | No Comments
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.
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Windows XP | 2 Comments
April 13th, 2008 | Posted in Asides | 1 Comment
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 [...]
April 7th, 2008 | Posted in Japan | No Comments
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 [...]
February 7th, 2008 | Posted in Asides | 4 Comments
Android is an Operating System and application suite for mobile devices. It is being developed by the Open Alliance Project, with Google being a major partner so its is developing a lot of interest. The fact that Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards for mobile apps built [...]
January 6th, 2008 | Posted in Programming | No Comments
Having trouble with your .NET framework? I had a difficult time getting Windows Update to install Hotfix KB928366 on my computer. No matter what I did, I couldn’t uninstall or fix the .NET Framework. After a lot of Googling and trying different suggestions, here is what worked for me.
How to re-install the .NET Framework 1.1
Remove [...]
January 4th, 2008 | Posted in Programming, Windows XP | No Comments