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April 2006 - Posts

Thanks Chuckie P.
It's a Saturday night, so naturally I'm catching up on thousands of unread blog posts while my girlfriend subjects herself to Return of the Jedi. Charles "Chuckie P"* Petzold (the famous XAML rapper) made a very interesting update on Microsoft's CSAML Read More...
(Unwelcome) Realism in Games
Tycho (linked page contains harsh language) expands on something I've been unhappy about for years - my emphasis in bold: I was interested to read an interview with the man who designed Lara Croft, where he makes it clear that their Tomb Raidin' gameplay Read More...
Pfft, who needs CAPTCHA? We've got CATTCHA, you know.
I was just IM'd this - yes, human proof by kitten . Simple and brilliant, but might be susceptible to forgery by dogs or other interested parties. Read More...
In The Company Of Heroes
My job supports my gaming habit. I got into the IT industry by playing games, and it's looking likely that I'll exit in much the same way! :) That said, it's great working in some small way with your childhood heroes, no matter how remote! To hear that Read More...
SyncToy 1.2 Out Now
Synctoy is an excellent Windows XP Powertoy that has loads of interesting synchronization modes. It was just updated to version 1.2, though I haven't had any problems with 1.1. If you're using it, possibly worth the download. If you're not using it, and Read More...
Stupid Fixed-Width Blogs
There have been a couple of pleas on one of the blog discussion aliases internally about images that seem to jump below the post. If you're in that situation (and oh look! I am too since I moved to a basic fixed-width format), you can use the IE Developer Read More...
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