OK, I'm going to leave computers alone and take up calligraphy or something....

Now my main computer has gone odd...connecting up a telephone line has caused Windows XP to require reactivation. Microsofts' product activation doesn't let me get straight through to a human, so I have to go through entering a long number in the full…

Problems with my mostlylucid.co.uk email

Anyone trying to send me an email on this address, please use [email protected] or [email protected] instead until further notice (stupid SMTP server is throwing random DNS errors...preparing to abandon the Win2003 mail functions and installing Mercury MTA…

Part 3 of the interview with Anders Hejlsberg

I linked to the other two...might as well think to this one. It is another really interesting article and provides further insight into the reasons for some of the decisions taken in the design of C# by a guy who is probably the finest language designer on the…

The single biggest ASP.NET usability problem

That got your attention - the biggest usability problem in my opinion is the horrible single form you're usually forced to deal with - I know Paul Wilson has a multiple form control for sale, and it is really cool but there is an easier way for most people. To…

Modified SQLHelper for .TEXT 0.94

I am in the middle of developing a couple of new controls to work with this site (first up is a booklist which works with the amazon.co.uk web service), as part of this I need to have data access. I was having a look at the current SQLHelper class in the…