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My life online…

Well, as you do in those quiet times at work…. I just googled myself – which means I put my own name into google and see what cae out (If you want a go don’t forget the quotes around your full name)

And, just on the first page there’s about 6 relating to me. (It helps if you have a one in a million name… no, I’m not telling you….)

The last item on the search page located a comment I entered four years ago on a website I was into then. It all seems to be pretty dead now, the last news update was back at the end of 2004, the last “clinging on” comment in their Forum was four months ago…. isn’t it sad when software ideas don’t make it…. I wonder how many more website exist in the after life…

(PS, it was this one if your interested! http://www.3dna.net/ – A 3d world to control your computer buy – it’s good for a quick laugh, I quite like the basketball game in the default area…)


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Harry Potter Day approaches

My google gadget on the side of my desktop tells me I’ve only 59 Days, 11 hours, 1 minute and 8secs… 7 secs… 6 secs… until the release of the new, but last, book.

Two months left and I’ve just reserved my copy. I’ve ordered it from Borders and I’ll be picking it up from there. (I decided to be nice to the post man this time!) Not decided what time I’ll be picking it up though… 12:01am or a more reasonable 9.01am??

Borders in Oxford are putting on a owl show at midnight and I imagine everyone will be dressed up too, might be kind of cool to do that…

My predictions for the book:

  • Harry will return to Hogwarts but only to find the horcruxes which Voldermort hid there when he had access to the cupboard when he worked in Berkin and Botts…
  • It will be discovered that the Avada Kedevra curse doesn’t kill but actually extracts a soul and hides it in a wand… to be retrieved at a later date…
  • Time travel will see Harry Meeting his parents, if ever so briefly.
  • Hogwarts itself will be a Hurcrux with Peeves being the manifestation of this.
  • Fawkes will save Harry’s life.
  • Neither Harry, Ron, , Harmione or Jinny will die but Ron will get bitten by a werewolf.
  • The Weasley twins will make a stand but not make it through.
  • Percy will sacrifice himself to save his mothers life.

Lots more but I won’t bore you with them! Also, don’t forget the movies out first!

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Spiderman 3

Watched the third film in the Spiderman series on Wednesday.

I really enjoyed it, the action was great and it was really funny in places, the plot didn’t always make sense but who’s going to let that get in the way of a good story!

I’d recommend it to anyone who liked the second one as its pretty much as good as that one. Also, its quite simple to understand what’s going in even if you haven’t seen the others – it stands up well as a seperate movie in itself, although it may actually be worth seeing the first film!

Was a rather heart breaking end to the film though..

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Webshots and UltraMon

I’ve been using webshots for ages now, its great as a desktop image changer and screensaver as they have a huge database of some of the best photos around.

However, for some reason they’ve chosen to not get their program working on multiple monitors.

Luckily, its quite easy to get the screensaver working with UltraMon, just find where Webshots is installed, then copy the screensaver, (look for a “scr” extension) then copy it to your Windows directory (usually here: C:\WINDOWS\), it needs to be here for UltraMon to pick it up. Just NOTE: That once you move it you won’t be able to change the settings, so make sure you set it up before you move it.

Now just open up UltraMon and select screensavers, it should now appear in the list and you can set it to appear on all of you monitors.

Software here:
http://www.webshots.com
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

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UltraMon – Dual Moniter software

This is a really nice piece of software for anyone with a dual (or more) monitor setup.

The really nice “killer” app is the ability to extend the task bar across all you monitors. This is really useful and improves your productivity, and its really cool too!

It also has some nice other features too. Unfortunately it is Shareware so you’ll have to eventually buy it, but you can get a free 30 day demo before you take the leap, here:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

Just remember this: your going to really miss it once the 30 days is up!

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Work equipment

I’ve finally got it all set up.

Bought a brand new computer, but the really interesting news is the beautiful dual screen setup. Two 19 Inch LCD monitors, how I’ve been surviving with two huge CRT monitors I don’t know! No more headaches for me!

I went for two of these:
http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPF-Philips-190S7FS-Silver

And would certainly recommend them. I have one with a VGA cable and one with a DVI-D cable – but actually, the picture quality is almost identical between the two, that’s how good these monitors are.

I didn’t go for widescreen monitors as the two together give plenty of width, but widescreen wouldn’t give much height, and you need that for comfortable on screen reading.

And believe me, it is worth it. Any self respecting programmed NEEDS dual!

Of course, it your really extravagant you could always splash out on three, four or even eight monitors…: (http://digitaltigers.com/zenview.shtml?gclid=CK3fsN77iowCFQvtlAodbHIg3g)