8th Apr, 2008, 1:36pm
I found this post Ryan Hadley a few days ago, which I got working with a little bit of time, I noticed that Thunderbird was displaying all-days events oddly, so I checked the VEVENT info being generated & tweaked to work correctly with Thunderbird/Lightening. I also dropped in the URL of the event in OWA & fixed it for situations where there are public & private names for the OWA/Exchange instance, handy when you want to go and amend an entry etc.
14th Sep, 2006, 3:02am
After struggling & cursing Microsoft for months, I found this post, applied this patch, Q330909_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe, everything is good again 
There is a description from Microsoft here.
21st May, 2006, 11:29am
A good friend of mine, AlanP, sent me this link: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/Oct05.5Flaws.html, which is an interesting discussion design flaws in Windows 2000/XP that aren’t in Mac OSX.
15th Mar, 2006, 11:04pm
Every now & then I’m forced to deal with databases in Access, the worst case of this is when the database started life in something else, ‘cos that when Dates usually get really screwy.
I recently had one with dates stored as 3 seperate fileds, I know I should have transformed the data, but I didn’t, so I came up witha few queries that tried to munge the data into something usable, my first attempt was this:
PurchaseDate: LTrim(RTrim(day))+’/'+LTrim(RTrim(month))+’/'+LTrim(RTrim(year))
But then I found a better way:
PDate: DateFromDMY([day],[month],[year])
Where DateFromDMY is a VB function, something akin to:
Public Function DateFromDMY(a_Day As Integer, a_Month As Integer, a_Year As Integer) As Date
If (a_Day = 0) Then
a_Day = 1
End If
If (a_Month = 0) Then
a_Month = 1
End If
If (a_Month > 12) Then
a_Month = 12
End If
DateFromDMY = CDate(CStr(a_Day) + “/” + CStr(a_Month) + “/” + CStr(a_Year))
End Function
Now that’s a crude function, but you get the idea, you can fix up data easily.
Thank you Martin Green for his pointers here.
6th Mar, 2006, 10:34pm
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
It’s just one of those tools you can’t live with out.
6th Feb, 2006, 6:17pm
Why why why can’t you burn ISO images without having to BUY tools…well, you don’t, if you know where to look
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/v2.htm
Update: 2007/12/04
I needed to burn a DVD ISO today, and ISORECORDER doesn’t do this, so I had a quick search, and there are a few options:
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
http://www.imgburn.com/
4th Feb, 2006, 6:44pm
My dad has a Dell Inspiron 6000, which I use every now and then, one of the things that has really bugged me about it jaggy images in IE (they are being scaled or something), I did some poking about today (we’re are babysitting at there house..) and found this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/highdpi.asp
I found it here: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_video&message.id=79808
He had is DPI set to 120.