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  • Riding the Fat Possum on Nov 14, 2009 in Cycling

    I love saying that – and I love riding it. My Gary Fisher Fat Possum (aptly named Mans Best Friend) successfully carried me through today's challenge – 13kms of very steep technical riding through a national park. With mixtures of very fast down...

  • Which browser do you use the most? on Nov 13, 2009 in Poll

    IE8 IE7 IE6 Firefox Chrome Safari Opera Other...

  • Back to Basics - Live Messenger Dynamic Pictures on Nov 12, 2009 in Windows Live Instant Messenger

    If you are a Windows Live Messenger user – you’ll probably find this to be a fun feature to muck around with. I sure did! So here’s how it works – step by step. Only took me a few minutes. For this to work, you must have a webcam insta...

  • The week in review on Nov 7, 2009 in Charts Excel Windows 7 Windows Live gadgets Cycling photography

    I don’t know why I seem to write massive link posts lately – maybe because i have been very busy with my three major priorities, family, work and photography. However this is a priority as well, so I need to allocate some time to write soon. In t...

  • Office DevCon has been a big disappointment so far on Nov 1, 2009 in Office

    So I was all excited. Office DevCon 2009 was in Brisbane this year. We develop in Excel and VBA. I was looking forward to networking with others who do the same, and learning some new techniques and tricks.  The session track précis hinted at...

  • When Excel 2003 doesn't display data and Excel 2010 information on Oct 27, 2009 in Excel VBA

    I came across an interesting issue yesterday. I found a limit that I was previously unaware of in Excel 2003. I had written some code that was taking data from a large data set into an array, filtering for some specific information and writing the re...

  • Windows Live Mail on Oct 21, 2009 in Windows Live email

    The following is the sample email that pops up in Windows Mail. Windows mail is being gradually replaced by Windows Live mail. This is a much better free email application than the old Outlook Express which technically wasn't free, you had to buy win...