ArchiveSeptember 2005

OPINION: Gorillaz CD copy protection sucks

My wife got the the new Gorillaz CD for her birthday. You know, the one that has a song featured in the iPod ad. Well here’s the thing, it has copy protection technology on the CD that means you can’t rip it onto your iPod. Michele thinks it is ironic. I think it sucks. But here’s the really dumb thing, the CD copy protection technology only works on CD players. Yep, swapped out...

PERSONAL: Firefly

Tristan writes about Serentity and his Firefly experience. I totally agree. We are long time fans of Josh Whedon (yes, we own all the Buffys, and Michele has a poster of Angel hanging behind the office door…) and we are now totally hooked on Firefly. I’ve been totally hooked on Tristan’s blog for ages – one of my faves is here.

PERSONAL: Back from holidays

Back from holidays and feeling great. Spent close to two weeks with my sister-in-law’s family (my wife’s sister and her husband and their 17 month year daughter who is soooo cute). I get on really well with my brother-in-law so it was a great time. They are visiting from Zurich (you may remeber we stayed with them for 6 weeks at the start of the year). And, by some divine...

LINKS: Channel 9 videos – Eric Rudder

I know the Scoble interview with Bill G has been getting heaps of links (and is very interesting), but I reckon the pick of late has to be the Eric Rudder video (the direct download link is here). He even mentions FoxPro in passing (around the 4:25 mark). (The comments have June 2004 datestamps, so I must have missed this when it was first loaded – but it seems to have been reposted this...

OPINION: Skype – this is it

Skype’s new beta adds call forwarding. This is the kicker I’ve been waiting for. It finally positions Skype as a ‘serious’ phone system for any company. Sure you had all the easy conferencing options and the ability to take your number with you anyware your notebook went. But there were two things I wanted: Call forwarding and Skype groups. And it seems that...

VFP: SVFPUG Presentations online

The presenter’s notes from last week’s Sydney VFP UG meeting are online
John Burrow’s excellent presentation on calling VFP COM objects from Crystal Reports is here
Ekasenna’s amazing discussion of callling VFP COM objects from SQL Server is here

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