Luke Smith Write today, wrong tomorrow

Batch build your Sidebar Gadget

I was looking for a way to build a sidebar gadget, rather than manually creating a zip file (changing to a .gadget extension) and then copy the files needed into the .gadget. A quick Google came up with this MSDN article 'Build your own Vista Sidebar Gadget' with a handy...

MIME Error with ASPNET under Vista (IIS7)

Problem: HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found Description: The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) map policy that is configured on the Web server. The page you requested has a file name extension that is not recognized, and is not allowed....

Kudos

Kudos for my dad who came and helped me last night refix my heatsink onto the processor after it fell off, the thermal compound needed cleaning off and I didn't have the cleaner.   The new PC is amazingly fast. Running Dreamscene on my TabletPC (Tecra M4) causes the CPU...

7 months on…

Wow, it's been nearly 7 months since my last blog entry and im not going to apologise about not blogging since thats become such a cliche thing to do. A bits happened over the last...oh month or 2. TrackMe Over at SportsDo we've released a beta of our new social...

Google Developer Day

I'm currently at the Google Developer Day, in the bloggers lounge. Got my swag bag with some goodies in, including some thinking putty! My sessions for the day are New Features in the Map API, Google Earth and GeoWeb, Google Gadgets and From Mashup to Business. Should be a good...

Flexible Screens

This is some cool technology, flexible OLED screens that or 0.3mm thick. The London Underground has LCD screens on the elevators down at some stations, I've been saying the larger advertisements on the platforms will be changed when the technology is feasible. This will bring targetted advertisements depending on the time of...

Fixed my blog

My blogs been down for a while, 2 of the dasBlog dll's got screwed up and needed to be reuploaded. All fixed now tho :)

Paintballing + Geeks = Techwars

I spent the whole of saturday paintballing. Apart from suffering from aching legs and the required bruises paintballings such a cool sport, although very expensive. Over in the states some geeks are organising what can only be described as the greatest paintballing weekend ever. Paintballing + Geeks = Techwars. It...

Charlie The Unicorn

Totally random but no matter how many times I watch it I can't not laugh.

Awesome

It looks like someone has found how to ski once global warming melts all the glaciers. Tube escalators :)