Monthly Archives: October 2007

Scottish SQL Server User Group Meeting

Posted on Saturday, 13 October, 2007 by Colin Mackay

When: 24th October at 18:30 until 21:00 Where: HBOS’ offices on Bankhead Crossway North, Sighthill Industrial Estate, EH11 4DT. What: Two speakers – Dave Johnston of HBOS will talk about backup solutions for SQL Server. Colin Mackay will deliver a … Continue reading →

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Developer Day Scotland Teaser

Posted on Friday, 12 October, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Developer Day Scotland is coming in May 2008   Technorati Tags: DDD , DDD-Scotland , Developer Day Scotland , Community , Community Conference , Developer Conference , Developers

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Life Imitating Art

Posted on Thursday, 11 October, 2007 by Colin Mackay

It looks like life imitates art. A few weeks ago the following comic was published on xkcd: And then shortly afterwards the following appeared on eBay: Technorati Tags: xkcd , art , life , life imitating art , office chair … Continue reading →

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A fantastic cartoon on SQL Injection Attacks

Posted on Thursday, 11 October, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Just in time for the SQL Injection Attack micro presentation that I’m doing. From: xkcd.org Technorati Tags: SQL Injection Attack , cartoon , xkcd

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A problem with Windows Live Writer

Posted on Sunday, 7 October, 2007 by Colin Mackay

I have an external USB hard disk that I use to store all my documents on. I move it between my laptop and my desktop PC so that when I’m out with my laptop I still have access to all … Continue reading →

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Windows Live Writer

Posted on Friday, 5 October, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Today I was encouraged to try Windows Live Writer as a way to create blog entries. So this is my first test entry using Live Writer which is supposed to be able to publish the entries directly to the blog … Continue reading →

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Stupid Thunderbird

Posted on Friday, 5 October, 2007 by Colin Mackay

A few hours after Thunderbird decided that it really MUST download all the messages all over again for my Yahoo account. It has now decided that it must do so AGAIN! Why?! Was the thrill of downloading 16000 emails not … Continue reading →

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Forum Signatures

Posted on Thursday, 4 October, 2007 by Colin Mackay

  Due to a slight problem with my email I’m currently downloading 14000 emails over the last few years. I don’t know why Thunderbird suddenly decided to download everything agian, but I spotted some emails that I thought I’d deleted … Continue reading →

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