Archive for the ‘twisty stuff’ Category

Fuel prices slowly going through the roof.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Has anyone noticed how fuel prices are slowly creeping up? Not only have I noticed that, but as I travel a fair few miles every week, I’ve noticed the difference in prices. At one Shell petrol station in Hopwood, (just off the M40) diesel is currently 122.9 pence per litre. ...

Why is it…

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

...that the one thing you make an effort for never works out? I made the effort to go to Ikea this evening, to get some boxes to start packing. The cheapest large boxes had sold out, so I had to go for the ones that were more expensive, and not ...

Testing mobile uploads

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

This is a post from the wordpress blackberry application. I've tried to insert an image, but it isn't clear whether it's made it's way into the post. [caption id="attachment_144" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="A man balancing a tent"][/caption] EDIT: This didn't work, as the photo was too large when posted initially and I had ...

Long drives

Friday, February 19th, 2010

After getting in the car at 4.30 in Banbury, a quick stop off to pick up the big C in Brum, I arrived in Leeds just over 3 hours later. Not too bad, but too late to write anything, draw anything, or even think. This keeps up my giving up ...

WSS upload size and other stuff

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Had cause to increase the maximum upload size on WSS today. It's done through Central Administration > Application Management > Web Application General Settings. Dependent on your network, you might need to increase the Connection timeout in IIS (default is 120 secs). Absolutely enthralling, I know, but I have to ...

charlie

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

charlie, originally uploaded by twistystraws. Just keeping on with the lent thing. This will be on the wall when I move in a couple of weeks. After it's been tidied up little. (The picture, not the house) More time spent with sharepoint today, trying to get some webparts using UpdatePanel.

I missed a day…

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

...but lent doesn't officially start until tomorrow. On the ipod... Today was spent messing with a couple of sharepoint servers, updating them to .NET 3.5 SP1 and enabling AJAX and LINQ. Thrilling stuff. Help from Mike Amerlaan. Having my share of pancakes too. I was a massive tosser, as evidented here;

Happy New Year China

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

This is on the ipod. Brilliant Album - Low, The Great Destroyer Happy New Year China. Lets see what Arcadian has to offer today.

Right then…

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

It's past a one year anniversary of my last post. It's the beginning of lent next week, and I'm going to give up not publishing something on the blog every day. I'll get into practice now. This is on the ipod right now. Maybe that's a starting point. I post ...

Former banking bosses say ’sorry’

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

So says the BBC.