Excellent post on testing practices...I really wish there was an easier way to integrate 'Watson' into all applications...

Chris Pratley posted this lovely long post on bugs and testing, he also covers some stuff about 'Watson' that little dialog which pops up when an application crashes inside Windows XP, very interesting stuff...I just wish an application block were avaialble…

Oh dear..."Janet Jackson and the Publicity machine"...

Pretty sad really, why didn't they just accept it was planned...anyway, this article has the best pictures and the full story...(warning, contains picture of Justin Timberlake looking 'concerned' - not for the faint hearted)

Geek hero...someone actually called their child Version 2.0!

I just love this...especially as I'm currently going for me V1.1 (wonder if I should use that title :-))...

Consultancy in the UK...

Theoretically :-) if I wanted to become a consultant in the UK - how would I go about it, where would I find contracts? Does anyone know if it's possible to do this and still live in Scotland?

Security through Diversity - why I don't like ValidateRequest

I'm aware this is a fairly controversial viewpoint, I should explain some of my own background as a precursor to my dislike of this. In the bad old days, I was a penetration tester; I ran my own little company which provided this service to a number of…

Grr...why is Visual Studio so sucky with Source Control!

I'm really at the end of my tether with VS.NET and source control. I'm working from home this morning, accessing the office Sourcesafe over my VPN using SourceOffSite - fine, SourceOffsite is a great product, just VS.NET seems to just lock up totally when…

Dumb piece of code...generate ordinals for numbers (th,rd etc...)

UPDATE: My code below of course has an error (I wrote it to test the perceptive skills of the community ;-)) anyway, Philip Reick commented with a more credible version: Hmm.. my bet is you came across it again after forgetting it because you threw it away. It…

I knew it - finally proof that 'slepping on it' helps solve problems!

Just thought this was pretty interesting - from Slashdot: An anonymous reader writes "CBC news reports that the effectiveness of 'sleeping on it' when faced with a difficult task may have more than just anecdotal roots. 66 students were trained to perform a…

Dumb little update to the Amazon book control...now it knows where you live!

I've been using Scott W.s little Amazon book control on this site for a while now - and it's pretty damn good, haven't made any cash from it as yet...but...well, it always bugged me that it was .com only as written - so if you were in the UK, by default it…

Puzzled by memory usage...

I have this command line app, when running in a 'normal' command window, it uses a fair whack of memory (around 60mb), but the second I minimize to taskbar, the memory usage drops to around 10mb....anyone any ideas why??? UPDATE: Apparently this has to do with…