February 2005 Entries
Just seen this, which made me giggle. A doorbell with multiple sounds, one of which is the sound of knocking on the door. That'll keep me chuckling for hours.
[Listening to: Juliet (Keep That in Mind) - Thea Gilmore - Avalanche]
So, a dire weekend. First my new bed arrives. That wasn't dire in itself, rather the fact that one of the sockets has a crossed thread, so it can't be put together. Still, the mattress is comfy. The the saga of the kitchen light continues. For those that know me, this won't be a surprise as it's been going on for a long time. A couple of weeks ago my brother stpped in and put the new MCB in (I don't like that breaker box; electricity, nasty stuff). So after not being able to put the bed together I thought...
I hesitate to post this, but I like to know how things work, so you'll have to forgive the toilet talk. It concerns gents urinals. There are usually two methods of flushing: the timed flush, common in England, where every n minutes the urinals are flushed, and the sensor based which detects when the urinal has been used. This sensor is usually a light based one; the approaching gent blocks light to the sensor and when done the return of light activates the flush. Last week at the conference centre there were no visible sensors but when done the flush...
So here I am sitting in the back of Al's caching talk. We're at a conference in Munich, which started with us doing the opening keynote on the new ASP.NET 2.0 features. It was a good talk; it's the second time we've done this one together and we have a routine where I have to create a new page for a web site. Al is convinced I won't be able to add all the features he wants without writing code, but all of the new controls provide everything I need: security, navigation, master pages, caching, etc. It's tough to get...