January 2008 Blog Posts
Heath Ledger is dead. Which is a great shame really. Whether, as initial reports suggested, he died of a drugs overdose in Mary-Kate Olson's apartment or, after the initial story-mongering, in his own flat of an overdose of sleeping tablets, we've lost an actor who was genuinely worth watching. But why does this keep happening to Terry Gilliam? He's had Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Don Quixote, Brothers Grimm and now The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus all fall into disarray. Parnassus, which Ledger was currently shooting with Gilliam, now has the financier's sword of damocles hanging over its head. But...
Having spent several days trying to put 2007 into some positive spin, it would seem that the best I could get from it was to realise that treading water gets you nowhere. You do nothing. You get depressed and the year becomes a washout. In an effort in remedy this, I now have a kitchen calendar in my study which is purely for me to document my achievements this year. Nothing else. And my aim is never to have a blank month. January already has three entries Mortgage now under a milestone mark. ...
Over the past few months, several people has posted some dark themes for Visual Studio, most notably Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman and Jeff Atwood. There's even a community on Ning now for VS theme settings. There's a lot to be said for working light on dark rather than the other way around, so why not try setting up Windows that way too? Standard Vista and Aero themes don't really support this inversion of colour, but the windows classic theme does. Once you've switched your desktop theme to Windows Classic you can switch settings for menu bars, standard text,...