Hoax: ‘Man sues Lynx’ 
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Hey, would you believe it. In a follow-up from my recent post on not believing everything you see and hear (School Bans Hugging), another well publicised example cropped up this week when the media (a lot of them) reported on a somewhat unbelievable story: Read on…
Windows 7: Really?
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Being a techie, I suppose you’d think I’d have something in-depth to say about the latest Operating System release from Microsoft (even a review perhaps). Well, I’m actually super under-whelmed by the fact that a new Windows version has been released. Even still, a new version of Windows is exciting right? Really? Read on…
“School bans Hugging”
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This week a news story broke that a primary school here in South Australia had banned hugging between classmates (8-13 years). Given that Hugging now seems to be the normal way of greeting friends (certainly here in Australia and especially for the sub-twenty age group), this decision seemed harsh…at least on the face of it. Read on…
Access VBA: Bad DLL Calling Convention
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I’m happily going about my software development duties (and writing some cool updates to a large MS Access software product) when the whole thing crashes with an unexplainable error (I’ll tell you why it’s unexplainable later on). Oh, no! I really should have backed-up sooner!
Extensive debugging of the new code shows absolutely no issues – in fact, the “Bad DLL calling convention” error occurs when a new function returns a perfectly acceptable Boolean….what is going on?
Outlook: Cannot open Outlook window
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OK, so it’s been some time since my last post. I’ve been lucky enough to have an extended holiday and visit friends and relatives back in the UK. Since coming home I’ve been flat out at work and trying to get my liver back into some form of shape (although not succeeding very well!).
I’ve been meaning to share a little problem I had some months back, when for no apparent reason, Outlook wouldn’t run when I tried to start it. Read on…
Excel 2007: Transpose Data
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A weird thing happened today with what should have been a simple exercise in data manipulation in Excel. Like most people I’m still trying to get to grips with where everything is in Office 2007 (I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard:
“ARGH! the bloody ribbon! Where the hell is the <insert tool name>?”
Well, today I knew where the thing I wanted was…it just didn’t work! How can something as simple as transposing data (swapping columns for rows and vice versa) be so difficult?
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Mini-Olympics
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Today I participated in the Step into Life annual mini-Olympics. I’ve been doing some outdoor group fitness training sessions for about 4 months and I’m loving every second of it (apart from perhaps getting up at 5:30am every Tuesday and Friday!) Read on…
PuffaFish Online
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After nearly two years offline, PuffaFish.net is back online! At last I can stop telling myself off about not setting aside some time to redevelop it. It’s been a very busy two years: Read on…