Permalink 24/02/06 02:44:30 pm Categories: Personal, Rants , 117 words, English (AU)

If you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?

Bruce Schneier mentioned that there really isn’t a very simple, “crisp” answer to the question “If you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?” It was in response to the completely ridiculous notion that we put cameras into apartment… more »
Permalink 20/02/06 04:26:53 pm Categories: Rants, IIS SMTP/Email , 234 words, English (AU)

K.I.S.S. – absolutely!

Apparently, some people think the new Office “12” (aka Office 2007) interface is not very “simple”. Let’s just quickly compare Office “12” with Office “11” then, shall we? Here’s the “new mail” window in Office “11”: I can count no less than 52… more »
Permalink 17/02/06 02:27:54 pm Categories: Technical, Rants , 406 words, English (AU)

Interesting Licensing Decisions

I just saw this post on Jeff’s blog titled “Today's "up yours" note to Microsoft,” and he raises a very valid point. The question I’d like to ask is, even if I’m buying from an OEM, since when has any piece of software been tied to my hardware? Doesn’… more »
Permalink 08/02/06 06:19:00 pm Categories: Technical, Rants , 565 words, English (AU)

More IE7 Ranting

Seems I can’t get enough of the IE7 ranting today!This time, it’s to do with their new “Page Zoom” feature. Now, this is an awesome feature, and one that I’ve been hoping they’d implement in this release. One of the very cool things about this featur… more »
Permalink 08/02/06 02:23:30 pm Categories: Technical, Rants , 322 words, English (AU)

More ClearType Ranting

Just further to my last comments on this subject...Actually, it’s not just one extra application’s settings I have to fiddle with now to disable ClearType – it’s two! It seems that Outlook Express has a separate setting to turn off its ClearType, und… more »

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