September 2007 Blog Posts
And so Microsoft released Halo 3. And for at least 48 hours developers (being the geeks that most of us are) 'were off sick' and then came back to work to notice that the Borg had also released two other items to the wild.
It's not with some ironic rolling of eyes and shrugging of the shoulders that after watching the whole summer's online pressure on the Vista team to justify exactly where the extras were to make Vista Ultimate, well 'ultimate', they released DreamScene, possibly the world's most underwhelming bit of software. It lets the wallpaper move like a screensaver,...
So I tried to install VS2008 b2 on my work laptop this morning and got a shower of red fail icons while .NET 3.5 while being installed. All the log files for this install are in the %temp% directory, so i had a look there. And in the log dd_dotnetfx35error.txt, the less than useful line:
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0a: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0a. MSI returned error code 1603
1603 is just the code for a fatal error, so that's not much use. The problem is with the .NET 3.0 install, so I had a look in dd_NET_Framework30_Setup6CEB.txt. Sure...
I haven't had any problems with Word 2007 for ages but then I needed to change the template used by a document I was writing. In Word 2003 and previous, this was the Tools and Templates option on the Tools menu I think. Two clicks and you're there. Why couldn't it be the same in Word 2007? Oh yes. Just a ribbon.
So then for future reference, here's how you change the template for a document.
Open the main Word menu. That's the round button in the top-left of the Word window to you and I.
Click Word...