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Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:40 PM

Illusions - How can this be true?

Michael's twirling dancer link generated a lot of chatter, but this one seems even less fathomable to me Michele's posted an image as an example of your brain messing with your head (as it were). In this image, the squares marked A and B are the same
Posted by acoat | 4 Comments
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:39 PM

Recognising Talent

<disclaimer>If it's not obvious from the content, I have a personal interest in this post</disclaimer> I was going to thinly disguise this post as a follow on from Frank 's ASP.NET Site of the {insert time period here} , but I'm just going
Posted by acoat | 6 Comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 3:13 PM

TechEd Day 0 - ASP.NET Ajax Pre-Conference Session

On Sunday, I attended Jeff Prosise 's ASP.NET Ajax pre-conference session. I love watching people like Jeff present. Even in the introductory bits, his depth of knowledge burbles up to the surface. (BTW, I said the same thing about Dan Green and Joel
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:31 PM

WPF? Pah!

I'm sitting in Joseph Cooney's (excellent) session on WPF at CodeCampOz , and it seems to me that the canonical demo of WPF is an animated button bouncing around a form. Of course, this is something VFP has been able to do for ever: **************************************************
Posted by acoat | 7 Comments
Saturday, August 19, 2006 2:53 PM

The Haiku Hits Keep On Coming

Tech•Ed looms ever nearer Consumes all my time See you on the other side If you need a Tech•Ed Haiku for your OOF , see Dave in the Dev'Garten - he's offered to write you one .
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Monday, March 20, 2006 1:22 PM

Analogy for explaining memory to computer novices

My wife's in the process of revising a couple of her music theory workbooks at the moment. Her workhorse machine isn't really up to the task of running InDesign , Sibelius , Acrobat , Outlook and Word with its half GB of memory. Her system is paging a
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 6:30 PM

Testing BlogJet

Following Dave and Mitch ’s lead, I’ve installed BlogJet . We’ll see how it goes.
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Friday, July 08, 2005 10:43 PM

Why I Love Server-Side E-Mail (and contacts and appointments)

I'm on holidays in Far North Queensland (I got special permission from my wife to come to the internet cafe as long as I wasn't doing work - it's a good thing I love technology for technology's sake isn't it). I was wandering down the main drag in Port
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
 
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