June 2007 Blog Posts

When is a PostBack not a PostBack? When it's a refresh

Keeping values in the ViewStateBag to persist over postbacks is fairly standard practice but what ViewState is sent back to the server may differ depending on whether the page is being refreshed or posted back as this example shows.

posted @ Friday, June 22, 2007 2:27 PM | Feedback (0)

One of those surreal moments

So Janey and I were off to rehearsal this evening and stopped at a motorway service station for a bite to eat. And rather surreally half of Motley Crue and a couple of their mates \ roadies were in the queue in front of us. Then the remainder joined the queue behind us. I'm not sure which was more priceless - the look on the kid's face who was serving them as he recognized them all, tried to remain calm while serving them and then plucking up his courage to ask for an autograph (which he fluffed first time) or...

posted @ Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:08 PM | Feedback (1)

Clippings and Bookmarks

Update: looks like Plip has answered my megafeed problem already and Dave Verwer's afeeda.com is the answer. You can find my full feed now at http://afeeda.com/hmobius/feed If you're already subscribed to my blog via feedburner (you do, don't you?), you'll already be getting posts in from my delicious bookmarks list as well. I also have a clippings blog courtesy of newsgator \ feeddemon which I haven't managed to integrate into the mega feed yet but which you can find at http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/ClippingsRSS.aspx?uid=351535. Catchy link, huh?

posted @ Friday, June 08, 2007 9:14 AM | Feedback (0)

Magonia \ Swarm of Angels Sting #1

Spent an evening last week watching Magonia: A Modern Folk Tale. I am generously credited as 'Green Elemental'. Realistically, I should be described as "Hedge with deep voice". A swarm of angels has also released its first trailer \ tv spot. Nice. Concept posters for the two possible films coming soon. If you're interested in joining ASOA, be aware that membership is being frozen very very soon. We're on a countdown to freeze membership for this phase of the project on Wednesday, 5 June, 9pm GMT. Members of the First 1000 who've joined before this date will then be able...

posted @ Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:31 PM | Feedback (0)

Photosynth Evolving

From James: We’ve seen photosynth before. Not like this, though (longish video, worth the effort): http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 It’s got a dose of seadragon in there too, which is... well, wow. This, plus surface, ... mm.... Blimey - you're not far wrong.

posted @ Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:40 PM | Feedback (1)