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Archive for June, 2009

22 Jun

Copy and Paste

It seems a cocked up copy and paste job has broken the tags. Bah! Edit: Although my copy/paste of WordPress installs did bust stuff it was actually the latest version and plugins which did. All sorted after much hair being torn out – and I can’t afford to do that much more! Bookmark It Hide [...]

20 Jun

Horrible code

Going through an XNA tutorial I came across this: protected void CheckBulletHits() { // Check to see of any of the players bullets have // impacted any of the enemies. for (int i = 0; i < iMaxBullets; i++) { if (bullets[i].IsActive) for (int x = 0; x < iTotalMaxEnemies; x++) if (Enemies[x].IsActive) if  (Intersects(bullets[i].BoundingBox, [...]

20 Jun

Jim McGovern – snout in the trough

Having trawled through Jim McGoverns expenses I spotted some belters. £658 for a computer desk. £4360 to set up his 10 page website – surely not. £123 for a trouser press. £950 for a sofa bed. As well as everything from cushions to bath screens he also claimed £2 for a knife. His office expenses [...]

19 Jun

Codetastic

Well I eventually gave up on SQL Server CE after suffering their install process again after installing Visual Studio SP1. I did a review of most of the databases around and what I wanted to do with them. I spotted Firebird. Downloaded it and a GUI. A GUI with the only option to hand edit [...]

10 Jun

Microsoft

This afternoon has been a bit of a battle with Microsoft. Now bear in mind none of these installers actually mentioned these as prerequisites in the installation process. I started working on a little game about 2 years ago. I dug it out, spewed when I saw the state of the code and upgraded it [...]

10 Jun

A Winner is Me! 3

Well I have just won my third competition in 6 months. On the Scottish Socialist Party site there is a monthly competition run with philosophy football. I just won their International Brigade t-shirt. Two wins in two months from this competition, enter it yourself! Bookmark It Hide Sites

03 Jun

Keeping down the inbox count

Catching up on my blog list has been fun. I was reading about the policy of E-mail zero where you aim to keep your inbox at 0 e-mails at all times by constantly properly filing your mail. Having fallen behind around 2 years ago mines is ever growing. I figured going for RSS zero was [...]

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