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April 2006 - Posts

• More pictures

  Some shots with a 50mm lens Some shots with a 90mm macro lens Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:08 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: misc

• Found a good coding blog yesterday.

  I found a really good blog yesterday, from Karl Seguin . I really liked his article on exceptions . Read More... Posted Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:10 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: Recommended Reading, Development

• Succumbed to the lure of a D70

  I finally succumbed to the lure of a Nikon D70. I got to play with Duncan's when I was in Australia and was really impressed with it. We had taken some of the same shots at the autoshow and his shots turned out much better. The only problem with it is Read More... Posted Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:58 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: misc

• It lives.

  The project I have been working on for the last little bit is now in public beta. You can see it here . It is always nice when people can finally see what you have been working on. Read More... Posted Friday, April 21, 2006 2:20 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: misc, Development

• SysLog Service

  This service was written because I couldn't find any applications that picked up syslog messages and ran in the background as a service. It was usefull seeing what was happening with my linksys router. Syslog Service runs as a service and logs syslog Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:32 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: Development

• Atomic Death Comix

  One of my friends has started a new web comic, Atomic Death Comix . It existed in print a long time ago, they decided to revive it this year. Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:25 AM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: misc, Recommended Reading

• Netgear WGT624

  My linksys router FW kicked the bucket today, wireless routers seem to have a half life of around 6 months. I am onto my third one in less then two years. The new one doesn't have all the features that the old one did, but if it lasts more then a year Read More... Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 5:01 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: misc

• NBC is broadcasting Stereo testing on the high def channel.

  Watching the Anaheim Los Angeles hockey game on the NBC HD channel, in the middle of the second period the game was interupted with test tones where they ran through stereo testing, then 5.1 testing. They did turn the game back on before running test Read More... Posted Saturday, April 08, 2006 4:53 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: misc

• Xbox 360 First Impressions

  A little late but yesterday was the first time I have actually seen a 360 on sale since they launched last November. It is pretty cool I probably spent an hour playing around with just the interface downloading some trailers getting the UI set to 1080i Read More... Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 5:45 PM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: gaming

• Announcing: Movie-Plot Threat Contest

  Bruce Schneier has started a contest for the best movie plot threat, prize autographed copy of his book Beyond Fear. Now to think up my own threat. Read More... Posted Saturday, April 01, 2006 8:37 AM by darryl | 0 Comments Filed under: movies, Recommended Reading