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Entries from October 2005

Sussex Geek Dinner

October 9th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Blogging, General

Wednesday last I attended my first Sussex Geek Dinner. I’ll never be a proper blogger, because it’s taken me four days to record the fact. Simon, on the other hand, knows how this stuff is meant to work: he went home and updated his blog within about an hour of us vacating [...]

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Ludicrous Product Naming

October 6th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Miscellaneous software

The MSDN Subscriber Downloads feed just listed something called “Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 v2 (All Languages)”.
Why can’t we just have Update Rollup 2 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4? How about Windows 2000 Service Pack 5?
On the other hand, perhaps we should be grateful there wasn’t an Update Rollup [...]

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Goodbye Pandora

October 3rd, 2005 · 2 Comments · General

A few weeks ago I enthused about Pandora, a personalised Internet radio station based around your favourite artists and similar music. At any time, you have the option to purchase the track you’re listening to, from either iTunes or Amazon.
So why didn’t I subscribe when my free trial expired? In short, I can’t [...]

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