I was re-organising my bookmarks the other day, and came across this little gem. Anyone else remember Windows Millennium? Enjoy…

Windows Error Reporting is all well and good, and I’m sure there are many problems that it’s solved. However it managed a classic fail tonight that made me chuckle. Take this error report here:

“Update Spyware Doctor”. Fine. Sounds like a good idea.

Such a good idea that…. it is in fact what I was trying to do when PC Tools “SmartUpdate” crashed, causing the error what I reported to Microsoft’s Error Reporting service, which recommended… can you spell “infinite loop”?

Never having tried Ubuntu (or at least, got it working), I decided to take the plunge and “borrow” a few gig of space from another partition to install Kubuntu on (I’ve always been keen KDE and wanted to play with KOffice.) (more…)

Recently at work I’ve been given the task of writing some code to extend Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint uses its own XML-based SOAP interface called CAML (pronounced “camel” – it stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language).

Not much to report – someone put me on to an excellent (Java-based) soap browsing tool called soapUI, and the book I’ve been reading mentioned tools on the u2u website. And finally, here is a nice little link dump to various SharePoint topics.

Ages ago I started writing an article about things that Windows should blatantly steal for Windows 7.  I never actually finished it, which is why I’ve never published it here, but one of the list I’ve wanted for ages is Virtual Desktops, similar to Linux.

Well, there’s a small freeware (€10 for commercial use) application called “Dexpot” which pretty much does just that.  Almost exactly what it says on the tin, in fact.  It even lets you customise the desktop icons of the running programs too.  Pretty cool.

Oh and for those of you running Windows NT 4 or 2000 still (and why not – they still work), you’ll be glad to know that Dexpot is happy running on both those operating systems