Good article on Codeproject - those wierd little images used to stop automated form submission

This would be pretty useful integrated into .TEXT - kill the problem of 'Comments Spamming' pretty instantly. The article also contained a link to The Captcha Project - which makes for pretty interesting reading,

How not to spend a weekend

I spent this weekend doing some 'product investigation' for a pitch we're preparing - which basically means that ensuring what we're saying in a pitch actually matches up with the product's capabilities. Not much fun, but has given me some ideas for future…

Mars today wallpaper...

Though I'd quickly knock this up - wallpaper from the Mars Probes page. Get it here (1600x1200)

Isn't it ironic

Just looking back through some old posts, I started this blog on my own URL (so not on ASP.NET weblogs) so I could post whatever I wanted...strange thing is, this blog is more focussed on .NET specific information than most of the ones there now...

Can't sleep...and looking for a new aggregator

Well, I'm suffering from post new year sleeping pattern - I basically become nocturnal over the Christmas and New Year (Hogmanay) holidays, have to start work in 8 hours...not good! Anyway, while I am sitting here awake (there's a show on about Turkish Harems;…

Looking for a project...

Still waiting for the 0.95 release of .TEXT (which is what this blog runs on), so I don't really want to make any changes to this site until then - as the changes I plan may already be in that release / the changes in 0.95 will be so radical that it will…

Wow....NET appears to be pretty secure!

@Stakehave just released a study looking at the relative security of .NET vs. WebSphere (WebSphere is probably the most secure App Server for J2EE). I have to say, I trust @Stake more than most, having have a good deal of involvement them in years gone by...

Interesting interview from Jim Allchin

Thought this interview was VERY interesting, more for the approach more than anything else. It really does look like MS is changing the way they approach software - the focus on quality over timeliness and marketing concerns is appreciated. It really does seem…

New, useful .NET weblog (well new to me!)

Just discovered the dotnetjunkies weblogs , where I found thesereally useful links to a bunch of interesting .NET stuff...more later (back to blogging again :-))

Hmm...might have a solution...

Well, the problem I was having with connection pool appears to have gone...all I did was reinstall (well, repair) my VS.NET 2003 install. Odd these little strange bugs!