December 23, 2006 | In cmb-web.co.uk, My Life | No Comments
The Quality Street is a chocolate brand that for many British people is indicative of the Christmas period (along with Roses). There is always a box under the tree, and as in my case a communal tin on the desk at work.
The interesting thing is how the choice of chocolates divides people. From memory there are something like 8 different kinds, including fudge, toffee, nuts and orange flavoured varieties.
There are those that will only eat one or two kinds, and those like me that just stick their hand in for a random one. The most interesting though, are those that profess they do not like this one and they do not like that one, then they eat them anyway and confess that, actually, they are ok.
December 23, 2006 | In Development | No Comments
I thought my other site at http://www.christianbridge.co.uk was finally ready to be released. However, I have just discovered that I have not yet upgraded it to the ASP.NET AJAX RC1.
The original ATLAS release of Microsoft’s AJAX implementation for ASP.NET used a “Microsoft” namespace, but for the RC1 they have renamed it to “System”. While this is a logical name for it now, it means that it is not backward compatible.
So, cue headaches of sites not working. I upgraded other sites at work, but obviously this one was less of a priority and slipped through. So it seems that I am not going to be able to upgrade it until after the New Year. Rather annoyed about that as I was hopeing to use it today :/
December 18, 2006 | In Development | No Comments
I saw a piece on Slashdot the other week, a very amusing story about a chap who writes a blog. He is being threatened with legal action because his blog ranks higher than this other persons business in Google. The business has contacted him and told him to remove his link from Google.
The Slashdot article is at http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/13/160241
The chap, Dean Hunt, has written a couple of pieces and published the correspondance he has received.
http://deanhunt.com/bizzare-google-request/
http://deanhunt.com/bizarre-google-request-update
Rather amusingly, the very publicity this has generated, and the fact that I have now linked to the site, will only serve to increase the popularity and hence ranking of the site in Google.
Somewhat worryingly, this is not even the first time this has happened.