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OUTLOOK: Error 0x80040154

Bottom line: you need to completely uninstall and reinstall office! As part of my re-install recently I had to reinstall Office 2007. Not a drama. But when I first started Outlook I made the mistake of not setting up an email account right away (silly me!). Well it turns out that Outlook didn’t really like this, and crashed when getting through the wizard and attempting to display the Home...

BLOG: Please update to my FeedBurner feed

Just wondering if you could do me a favour… I’m trying to get a better handle on my readership, so I was hoping you’d be kind enough to subscribe to my FeedBurner feed instead of directly point to the Blogger URL. All you need to do is point your RSS reader to this: If you are just browsing (i.e. not using a RSS reader) then you can also use the new URL, but it won’t look as...

PICASA: Restoring Albums from backup

I love Picasa as a photo (and video) organiser. And I especially love how easy it is to put your photos on the web as albums (with no advertising!). It only takes a few clicks and a whole Picasa album is then available for friends and family to see. And although I had backed up all my photos (probably the most precious items on my machine when I think about it) I had never thought about backing...

PERSONAL: First the good news…

Well, it’s great to be back. The last few weeks of ‘increased productivity’ J have been due to my notebook’s premature death. Not to worry, Magic Dave (Talman’s IT guru) got me all back up and running and in the process loaded Vista on my machine (the machine required a complete reformat and install). And on the weekend I finally got around to reinstalling FeedDemon...

PRESENTING: As long as we learn from our mistakes…

Thanks to Pete Huish for sending this little gem to me. Yes, we’ve all sat through these kinds of presentations – in fact some of the examples here are so bad I was wondering if they had been staged… but very funny all the same.

Technorati tags: Presentation skills NOT

INTERNET: Couldn’t connect to Microsoft

SOLUTION: Reduce the MTU setting on my ADSL router PROBLEM: We had a really weird thing happening from home where wee couldn’t connect to a few web sites. Microsoft was one and SMH (A sydney newspaper) was another. But all others were fine. Also, Michele and I trouble sending and receiving email from our home account. I could VPN in to work and browse the sites fine, so it was looking like...

VFP: Goran Zidar blog

I’m sure you all know about Goran’s blog by now (thanks to Jamie’s link last month). If not then check it out here (RSS here).
Goran is the manager of the Tab Menus project on VFPx, a big supporter of VFP in Australia and an all round good guy (perhaps even a clever cookie :-)
Technorati tags: Visual FoxPro, Goran Zidar

NET: CodeCampOZ 2007

Just a quick note to publicly thank Mitch and Greg for putting on another excellent code camp this year. The sessions covered .Net, AJAX, SharePoint, Security, TFS, WCF, WPF, BizTalk, CRM, Windows Mobile 6, Parallel computing and even XNA. I’ve been to all 3 code camps so far, and in my opinion they are getting better. The presenters this year were all of high standard. They are also...

VFP: OzFox quick survey results

Here’s some interesting stats from the OzFox networking session. At the networking session there were 40 or so attendees (plus the speakers). I have not included the speakers in the results below. I asked the following questions about VFP developer ‘behaviour’: How many people attend User Groups (VFP or other): 21 (ie ~50%)How many read blogs (VFP or other): 23 (ie >50%)How...

VFP: Sydney VFP User Group this Wednesday 28 March 2007

This Wed we have an interesting meeting.
First up we will be discussing the recent announcement regarding VFP.
Next, Doug Bower will be repeating his excellent session from last year covering connecting to MYOB via VFP.
Then, as usual we will finish with our Q+A session.
Details on the UG site –
See you there at 6:30pm for free pizza and drink.
Newcomers welcome!

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