Monthly Archives: July 2008
Lots of coding
Steve came over today and we spent a pretty productive day churning out code. We did it tag-team style with one of us writing and debugging while the other fiddled with the database, then when one of us came across code witten by the other, we’d switch jobs and continue.
Mobile’s still not working though… Continue reading
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Orange are having computer problems
I’m stopping my Orange contract and have just received a PAYG SIM and topup card from them. Amusingly the topup card expires in 2029 so I’m going to make it my aim to keep it until then 
When ringing the activation number I first managed to confuse the voice recognition system, and then the human I got through to explained he couldn’t help me because his computer wasn’t working. I… Continue reading
XNA Game Studio
Well they’ve made this a bit easy! I’ve spent the day following the beginner’s tutorial and have a rudimentary spaceship shooting game working. It shouldn’t have taken all day, but the tutorial videos are aimed at someone who’s never used Visual Studio or C# before. I know what an “if” loop is now, at least 
MS appear to have made it quite straight forward to get things moving around the… Continue reading
Possibly the most complicated OS upgrade ever
Apple Macintosh Classic running System 7.5.3
You know, to the uninitiated, installing an operating system in your computer is a daunting and complex task, full of the great unknown and the fear you may cause permanent damage to your beloved and expensive computer. To those of us who remember two floppy Linux installs… Continue reading