We made it
We are safely in Australia now and at my parents place. The kids were great oin the trip and we have a raft of suggestions for thoes flying with children :D
Arrrrggggg
OK, its nearly time. The movers are now in the house. It is weird having them run and do all the packing. Im helping where i can but they seem to have it all in hand. Starting to get very stressed about this move. Not long until we are in sydney now. Also I have managed to break the gallery imbedded so it will break you out of the site for the moment. Thats what you get for upgrading :D Anyway, three dyas and counting! Also for the techies out there geoshell has to be the simplest and cleanes shell for windows i have used.
Continue Reading »Coming Home
It official we are coming back to Australia in September, the countdown has started.
Writing in ASP.Net and C#
“Of late I have been doing more and more in c# and ASP.Net. I am helping a friend out with the creation of a new site and a project at work I am on requires a timeline of actions to be rendered. I cannot find any components in the wild to do this so it looks like I will be writing one myself. Update: I have found a base Control that I can work with! Gantt Chart / Event Calendar / Calendar Planner The Idea will be to take a list of transactions and then display them on a time sequence, since some of them are in Parellel a Gnatt style chart seems the best. Once I have created the control I wll put it up for others. I am also nearly finished my MCAD, One more exam on XML Web Services. I have some great picture of Amelie and Anja playing in the front room, (Well Anja playing and Amelie just sitting). I will upload them this afternoon. Also I have been playing with Google Earth, it is great and I have some ideas to use it for some home videos.”
Continue Reading »The Ant and the Grasshopper
“The Original Story Of The Ant And The Grasshopper The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. The Modern Australian Version The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate like him are cold and starving. The ABC and Channel 9 show up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his comfortable warm home with a table filled with food. Australians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty. The Democrats, the Greens and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of the ant’s house. The ABC, interrupting an Aboriginal cultural festival special from North Queensland with breaking news, broadcasts them singing ““We Shall Overcome.”” Bob Brown rants in an interview with Ray Martin that the ant has gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his ““fair share.”” In response to polls, the Liberal Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retrospective to the beginning of the summer. It is quickly passed through the Senate. The ant’s taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire grass hoppers as helpers. Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed retrospective taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. The ant moves to Asia, and starts a successful agribiz company. The TV stations later show the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of the ant’s food though Spring is still months away, while the government owned house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house crumbles around him because he hadn’t maintained it. Inadequate government funding is blamed, Kim Beasley now is appointed to head a commission of inquiry that will cost $10,000,000. The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the Sydney Morning Herald blames it on obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity. The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by the government for enriching Australia’s multicultural diversity, who promptly terrorize the community.”
Continue Reading »Time to study.
“Over the last week I have now got 70-301, one of the hardest MCP tests I have done. You really need to know the information form 70-301 and 70-300 as the test references both. Also a good review of all th eMSF 3.1 Whitepapers on the Microsoft site helped immensely. Im now in the process of studing for 70-229 SQL Design, it is not looking to bad at the moment, well until I have to get into Normalisation :D The twins are doing well, Amelie is now smiling all the time and Anja is well, being Anja :)”
Continue Reading »Its a Sunny Day
“The weekend has a good start to it. It is nice and warm at the moment (22C). So to celebrate we are having a BBQ luch and putting the pool up. The past week went well with me spending the bulk of it studying, and I even passed. Im now a MCP again as I did 70-228 (SQL Admin). I will be putting some photos up of Kew gardens tonight. We went there last weekend and it was a really nice day out. "
Continue Reading »Site Update
“I have decided to create a theme from scratch myself and this is it, it is called Blue Cross. It has been designed to take variable width content in the centre so i can embed gallery and my wiki into the site. I have also upload Photo Collector, a application i wrote to handle the copying of images from my camera in a organised manner. http://blog.sytone.dev/photo-collector/"
Photo Collector
“I have been looking for a application to help me copy my photos from memory cards to a folder structure on my PC. I hav ebeen doing a manual file listing and copying it according to date (yyyy_mm_dd) and haveing folders named the same. After getting annoyed with doing this manually I have created the photo collector. It will handle JPG and AVI files and copy them to there corect taken date folder on the destination. You can now change the destination path to use the .Net DateTime parsing syntax, so you can place the photos in any order you want. ( I have added a help window) Version 1.1 Download - http://blog.sytone.dev/download/PhotoCollector.zip To Do:
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