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I read today on BBC News website that The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering introducing many many more top-level-domains (TLDs) for the internet addressing system to go alongside the existing ones such as .com, .org, .net etc... I don't understand the rationale for that. We already have the problem ...

  Stuart Preston runs all of our infrastructure at Conchango, keeping our business running and our people talking to each other and clients - oh and he develops Vista side-bar gadgets, VSTS plug-ins and a whole bunch of other stuff!! After my blog post about the back of the ***-packet. He was kind (daft??) enough to send me the complete ...

  I was writing a blog post recently, and was describing some approximate and rough calculations. The way we might describe this in the UK is to call them ''back of a *** packet'' calculations. The word: '***' meaning cigarette. It's also a word used to describe a form of servitude common in English Public Schools a few years back (and some ...

An email from Paul Dawson went around one of Conchango's internal distribution lists a few weeks ago with a call to action for people to contribute more to our blog site. Apparently our tag cloud wasn't fully representative of the things that we are good at: I would agree with that. Whilst it is gratifying for me personally that the blogging ...

I am currently writing this blog entry on a flight somewhere over the USA using Windows Live Writer as my offline blogging tool. Anyone that has used it will tell you what a great tool it is for doing this. Currently Live Writer allows rich offline editing of blog posts. I think the fact that blogging tools such as Live Writer are not ...

Here's a little tip for you that I've found incredibly useful over the past few months - something that I suspect a lot of you do already. When I'm involved in a project on which I am implementing SSIS packages I like to keep all packages in a single SSIS-dedicated solution. Typically that solution will contain multiple projects ...

I've been blogging on this site for just over 2 and a half years now and thought now would be a good time to check out some of my blog stats and so I'm blogging about them here in case anyone is interested, and so that I can look back in the future to see how things have changed. Prior to publishing this post I ...

breaking news. The Popfly team have made a new release. Check out the most important new feature, more cowbell: http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!219.entry !!!   If you don't understand the cowbell reference, go and search on Youtube. -Jamie    

I use Flickr alot to host all of my digital photos but I tend to have a hard time uploading them all, for some reason the Flickr Uploader can be a bit tempremental, particularly for large files. Thankfully Flickr also allow you to upload emails by emailing them, as attachments, to an assigned email address. I wanted to write a tool that ...

A few months ago I wrote a short post about a cool little powertoy that enables you to copy the path of a file into your clipboard:   Well as Josh Twist has pointed out this functionality is now built-in as standard to Vista (well it is in Vista Ultimate anyway which is what I am running). Just don't forget to hold down ...