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Month: November, 2007

China Moon Pictures!

27 November, 2007 (13:31) | General Jamblings | No comments

China has published its first Moon pictures! I’ve been waiting to see these for ages! Interesting to see some pictures of the ‘ol Moon that don’t belong to NASA, an alternative view maybe?
http://www.moondaily.com/
http://science.slashdot.org/

Pink Floyd Rip Off

22 November, 2007 (17:23) | General Jamblings | No comments

I’m a huge fan of Pink Floyd, have been for years. I even managed to see them live twice on the The Division Bell Tour. Once in France and once in the UK. As it happens their 40th anniversary of the bands first release is this december so they (EMI) have boxed [...]

Stem Cell Reprogramming

21 November, 2007 (12:21) | General Jamblings | No comments

This is really quite astonishing!! Reprogramming skin cells to behave like stem cells! This article is seriously worth reading …
http://tinyurl.com/2ob8l3

Connection Strings Tip

20 November, 2007 (13:12) | Computing, General Jamblings | No comments

Really neat trick using MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) to create connection strings for various data types.
1. Create a new text file somewhere useful and rename it xxxx.udl
2. Double click on the file to open it.
3. Now your looking at the ‘Data Link Properties’ dialog box
4. Pick your connection details and click ok.
5. Open the [...]

IE Rubbish!

20 November, 2007 (12:24) | Computing, Web Stuff | No comments

I just can’t get over this!! Whilst working on a VS2005 C# project at work to create a web interface for one of my employers systems I encountered something I just couldn’t believe. As part of the design aspx file VS2005 provides for outputting A GridView with a property of [RowStyle-Wrap="false"] which basically [...]

My First OU Assignment!

20 November, 2007 (12:24) | General Jamblings | No comments

Well I had my first OU assignment back. Getting back into the swing of writing essay type answers is going to be tougher than I thought, I made some frankly silly mistakes and left out a few important bits of answers that I really shouldn’t have missed. Anyway, I still received an overal [...]