Mike Dimmick's Bleurgh

I've been reading up on the US presidential election. For better or worse, we (the UK) are now in Iraq and would find it difficult to le...

Halo 2 Piracy ( bungie.net ) I haven't gone looking for it. If you see a link, please report it. Microsoft generally have a problem wit...

Shipping Software and Broken Windows (John Lawrence, MS VS Team System blogger) I'm afraid we have the opposite problem - if it looks g...

Just a test entry, testing PocketBlog

I was just checking the in-flight movies for my trip to Seattle and environs (flying out this Thursday, 23 September and returning Tuesday/W...

A fairly fundamental rule of software, here: if you have a non-fatal error, you write it to the log. You don't present it to the end-use...

In all my frustration with SonicStage , I completely forgot about the other piece of software - MD Simple Burner. In reading the manual thi...

OK, after writing this entry , I thought some more about it, then eventually ordered a MZ-NH900  from unbeatable.co.uk . Not a bad turn-arou...

Roadworks. We all hate 'em, but we know they're a necessary evil - if you want your water, gas, electricity, phones (internet) to ke...

SecurityFocus  reports  (syndicated in The Register) on a man prosecuted for 'war spamming' - driving past buildings, connecting to ...

I thought I'd take a look on the MSN Music beta site , see what it's like. It's pretty clean, actually - normally MSN sites are ...

The whole business with lucky or unlucky numbers is ridiculous. Today's post on This Is Broken shows a lift with the floor request butt...

I've been trying to think of a way to get a general 'contact me' link up that doesn't put a public email address on the web ...

Back in 1999 I bought a Sony MZ-R55 MiniDisc recorder (in yellow), in part to replace the increasingly-unreliable cassette players, for the...

When writing that last post, I searched for svchost (before deciding to link to Larry's comment), and got these Sponsored Links: I'...

[Let's see if I finish this series...] Last week I wrote about running with reduced privileges . In that post I talked about using the ...

Eric Sink has just started a series of articles on Source Control: an introduction for SCM novices. In his introduction, he writes: "M...

I've found TheElderGeek.com's guide to services useful. My definition of svchost.exe is that it's a process which supports plug...

After the last entry and discovering that the at trick still works, I asked myself this question: do tasks created through Control Panel ...

The Register: Windows XP SP2 features security crater - report Basically, a malicious program can add a new WMI provider to the root\Securi...