tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34502752011-08-06T01:37:34.876+01:00A little corner of the Empire on the web.JamesBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870123314526693146noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-18524792467389900882011-05-11T14:26:00.004+01:002011-05-15T22:12:02.209+01:00

As in many companies these days, our users don’t have administrative permissions to their PCs or to the various servers and services we give them access to. This means that the standard one-click web page deployment of LiveCycle Launchpad won’t work for our users, and also we have to configure the permissions within LiveCycle to give them the permissions needed. Here’s how we got it working:

JamesBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870123314526693146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-2684281100388024682011-01-30T18:00:00.004Z2011-01-30T18:10:13.301Z

Just started using Dropbox to sync between my PC, server, Android phone and the web, it really is great. Easiest and simplest syncing solution I've found. Had been thinking about it for a while, and then it was Gina Trapani (of TWiG fame) releasing her new Todo.txt Touch Android app that finally convinced me, as it uses Dropbox to do the behind the scenes updates. If you sign up for Dropbox

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-31436137341033731122010-04-29T22:02:00.011+01:002010-05-17T00:13:13.350+01:00

So I've been following Mozilla's Weave project for while, and kept meaning to have a play with it. It's one of their experimental labs projects which recently came out of beta with a 1.0 release. Essentially it's a Firefox add-in that syncs and backs up a whole load of your settings and data back to a central server, including your bookmarks (and I have a lot!), saved passwords, preferences,

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-28057206996798643092008-08-19T19:54:00.005+01:002009-02-10T23:29:49.498Z

Please see the update at the bottom of this article. I no longer suspect EVE Central or it's Market Uploader utility of any wrongdoing here. So a friend of mine found that around a £1000 of money had been siphoned from his bank account recently (all in bank transfers of under £150). After talking to the bank about he found that the attacker had got into his bank account using the web login.

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-9543868576652218692008-03-07T10:07:00.004Z2008-03-07T10:59:47.045Z

Dad's organization (OFE) are organizing a petition to convince the European Parliament Government to change their IT systems over to using open standards. Head over to www.openparliament.eu to sign up and show your support Citizens and stakeholder groups should not have to use the software of a single company in order to communicate with their elected officials or participate in the legislative

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-86359497617337226142008-03-04T20:31:00.004Z2010-04-30T00:24:54.021+01:00

This post's been sitting in my queue for a while, sorry! Vlad (of Mozilla and Firefox fame) posted to the EVE-Online fourms a while ago about his new EveBerry tool, that can be downloaded here: EveBerry -- a BlackBerry EVE Character Monitor:. It's similar to EVEMon and market monitoring apps, but for your Blackberry smartphone (assuming you have one, I do) and is very, very cool and very, very

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-79445898777597570372008-03-04T19:22:00.005Z2008-03-04T19:48:18.152Z

Since my last set of Lol Bots images (featuring Red Dwarf's Kryten, Ghost in the Shell's Tachikoma and Fritz Lang's Maria), the site seemed to go quiet for quite a few months. Luckily over the last few weeks rstevens has grabbed the editorial reins back and posted a slew of new images, including two more of mine. I started off a little late for Valentine's with Kryten and Camille: (It really was

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-49233227994793962882007-06-18T19:52:00.000+01:002007-06-18T20:01:03.416+01:00

An update to the previous post: Safari for Windows. I'd like to say that the Safari 3.01 beta update fixed the problems with my curved borders mentioned in the the previous post, but I probably ought to stick my hand up and admit that uploading the updated CSS file that's been sitting on my hard disk for about 2 months is almost certainly what fixed it! So Safari's new border radius properties do

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-85907644541017651212007-06-11T20:37:00.000+01:002007-06-18T19:59:34.088+01:00

So Apple have just released a beta of the "Safari 3 web browser for Windows! First impressions are great, all my web sites, and my favourite sites seem to work well, and look beautiful. Text flowing around flowing objects is definitely better than Firefox 2 or IE 7. Text just looks great full stop. Downsides, its a bit like when Apple first shoved all that brushed chrome theme stuff over

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-88805412089051610682007-06-10T20:39:00.001+01:002008-03-04T19:25:29.092Z

I never really got the whole captioned (or macro-d) kittens craze, as exemplified at I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER, maybe its because I'm just not a cat person (the guinea pigs work for me though). However LOL BOTS is a concept that I can totally get behind. And have. My three submissions to the site (so far) are below: I started off by injecting a little bit of class into the proceedings: (I feel that

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-16544465029372852332007-04-21T12:41:00.000+01:002007-04-21T13:01:01.829+01:00

My little brother, Nick, is currently racing across Europe in the Scumball 3000 European Car Race Rally. Him and three friends have bought a sub £500 Saab car and are spending 4 days racing across at least 5 countries, waking up each morning not knowing where they're driving to that evening. Good luck to him, I think he'll need it stuck in the same car for days on end, with 3 smelly mates, with

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-26681961925603207242007-02-12T20:19:00.000Z2007-06-10T21:26:12.008+01:00

Okay, I'm not even 30 yet and things have conspired to make me feel old. I thought I was in touch, a real geek and a full part of the internet generation. It turns out that I may be some of that, but I still have one foot in the old world. I read somewhere recently where a member of the 'older generation' was talking to a 'youngster' about calendars, and the youngster couldn't understand the

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-6938852027736132372006-12-20T21:11:00.000Z2006-12-20T21:47:52.402Z

Some may remember this post from back in July when I was having trouble printing from a web app after upgrading from Firefox 1.0x to Firefox 1.5. Wherein I laid out a way to fix the problem using a custom usercontent.css file, and also logged a bug on the Mozilla Bugzilla system. Well it looks like its come to an end! Not with today's Firefox 2.0.0.1 update, as you might imagine. But the latest

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-1162945558458544412006-11-08T00:12:00.000Z2006-12-20T21:48:28.961Z

Thanks are due to Colin Murray's Black Hole on his Radio 1 show just now. He's introduced me to definitely the night's greatest song, almost certainly the week's greatest and quite possibly the year's. Well I've had it on repeat for quite a while now and haven't grown sick anyway :) If you were lucky enough to listen to the show live, or were quick enough to listen to it from the Black Hole's

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-1159193374948031102006-09-25T14:48:00.001+01:002011-05-11T14:40:42.042+01:00

The problem with being known as the person who can pull a list of group members from AD into a text file in a few seconds, you become a "go-to guy" for other AD queries. Which wouldn’t be such a bad thing, except that there aren't pre-written scripts for them all! I received a request today to ask if I could pull out a list from AD of everyone who was a member of both a departmental group and a

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-1153962690600153742006-07-27T01:34:00.000+01:002007-06-10T21:27:11.573+01:00

For anyone still living in Unisys-land (aren't I glad they're not filling out my wage slip any more ), and for anyone else forced to use their "idiosyncratic" (read shite) web tools here's a little something. If you've been forced to use the web (ie HTML not Java) version of their (Peregrine-based) ServiceCenter tool, you'll notice that its dog-slow if you're using IE and has a whole myriad of

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-87852101613948285742006-05-09T01:18:00.003+01:002011-05-15T23:16:06.844+01:00

Remember way back when when I entered the MSN World's Best App competition with my Connect Four game? Remember just a few months back when the winners were announced? Well... my second place prizes have (finally) arrived! I'm currently playing around with my Oakley Thump sunnies, loading them up with music and looking just slightly silly :). Also included in the prize is a nice, shiny copy of

JamesBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870123314526693146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-68124485344121982952006-02-06T13:09:00.001Z2011-05-15T23:13:16.588+01:00

So MSN just announced the winners of their World's Best App contest today (or maybe late yesterday, can't do these timezone calculations in my head Have a look down the list of winners, see that game in 2nd place called Connect Four? I made that Edit 11/2/06:Looks like its official! The official "Inside Windows Live Messenger" blog has just posted an article on Messenger’s Worlds Best App

JamesBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870123314526693146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-81623793326627039312006-02-01T22:38:00.000Z2011-05-15T23:07:03.907+01:00

Microsoft XML Diff and Patch 1.0 Alright, maybe its a bit of an exageration, but this really did save my bacon the other day, and it is very useful if its what you need and things are formatted badly enough that WinDiff can't help you.

JamesBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870123314526693146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-31551695869112798172006-01-31T00:17:00.002Z2011-05-15T23:05:24.817+01:00

Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits. Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing. Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice. Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was

JamesBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870123314526693146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-14748594017458978642005-12-18T21:18:00.002Z2011-05-15T23:00:21.830+01:00

So, just in case anyone had any morbid curiosity and wanted to see my chin scar and its 9 stitches, I've just added a new photo album containing some views of what's left of my chin after the unfortunate incident!Random memories from that day:everyone at work saying "What are you doing here? Why aren't you at home?",the nurse at work "Woahh, that's a deep cut!" and "You need to get that looked

JamesBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870123314526693146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-1134733348236566672005-12-16T11:41:00.000Z2006-12-20T21:52:00.769Z

My first entry to the MSN World's Best App competition, an online, multi-player version of the classic Connect Four game, has just made it through the checking process and is now live on MSN! Please try it out, have a game with me, or anyone else you know on Messenger: Just click here to play multiplayer Connect Four! (requires Internet Explorer and MSN Messenger) Please play it as much as you

Jamesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-59264101476472548972005-12-16T11:02:00.000Z2011-05-15T22:49:38.803+01:00

So I was riding my bike to the station yesterday morning, when I suddenly lost all grip on my tires, the bike slipped out from under me, and I ended up sliding across the tarmac on my face. On the upside, my cycle helmet is totally unscratched, undented and untouched. On the downside, I spent the morning in St Bart's Hospital getting a load of X-rays taken, various parts of me prodded, and I've

JamesBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870123314526693146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-60355060007921090072005-12-11T23:27:00.000Z2011-05-15T22:46:48.903+01:00

Have finally got round to submitting my first entry to the MSN Messenger World's Best App Contest. Thanks to everyone who's helped me out with the testing of this one and the little test apps, especially the people who pointed out my bugs mistakes deliberate errors. Just got to wait for it to appear now, and see how the world takes me!

JamesBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870123314526693146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450275.post-75534377028677467022005-12-11T18:34:00.001Z2011-05-15T22:44:28.051+01:00

So I was bored and did a few Google searches on "my-name is" here's the results: James is bribing me with chocolate James is a COUNTERFEIT! James is also a mail application platform James is based upon the Apache Avalon application framework James is not writing about how to become a Christian James is as forthright as an Old Testament prophet James is offering you a free MP3 Download of an

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