Some time ago, I wrote about my transition from Android to Windows Phone. I don’t regret having gotten a Windows 7 Phone, but I do resent having one. Allow me to explain… Windows 7 Phone’s ...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/windows-phone-conclusion/
A long time ago, in a Grimsby far, far away, a young kid saves up enough money to buy a C compiler for his Atari ST. So the transition to Microsoft C was pretty natural for me. I’ve owned perso...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/vs-2012-the-one-i-probably-wont-own/
Gamer turned dev - and a server developer at that, wth?
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/secret-reveal-of-microsofts-itunes-killer/
I’m in the middle of moving house, we just finally got into our apartment properly last night. For my test of Internet connectivity, I decided to download the Windows 8 Developer Preview. This ...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/windows-8-dev-preview/
A few weeks ago, someone managed to get access to my Xbox Live gamertag, and charge nearly $130 to my account via Paypal. I might not have noticed except I saw the Paypal emails and knew for damn...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/xhack-i-finally-hate-windows-live/
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-29VS10PR.mspx Microsoft described the next release through the following five focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiri...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/admit-when-you-have-no-clue/
Following my mention of ‘autoruns’ while revealing (to no-one) that Adobe is evil, I thought I should follow up with an ironic little tip of the hat to, who else, but Microsoft :) Microsoft�...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/microsoft-tip-of-the-hat/
Apparently, Microsoft find Apple’s “I’m a PC and I’m a Mac” dehumanising. So, in response, they went and got a lot of people to say “I’m a PC” with Deepak Chopra saying “not a h...
Well, now I finally understand why it’s so important that Sun’s Java doesn’t worry about little things like giving you a choice in whether or not they run the Java helper on your system. Ob...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/a-java-update-ooooo/
I’ve started using Safari as my default browser on my Windows boxes. This took me a little by surprise. I thought I was quite happy with IE. Something about Safari feels a little slicker to me,...
Windows Server 2003, it turns out, has the ever-popular Automatic Updates “Restart your computer now” focus-stealing dialog that seems to grind my gears. And, say you happen to be remotely lo...
Well, fnar. I got my web-based Mac client builder working after wrestling with Roxen and Apache to convince one of them to send raw output without waiting for the CGI script to finish (Apache ...
https://kfsone.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/async-ajax-streaming/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7435278.stm And after that, we can all go touchscreen crazy… http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/28/1527213&from=rss
Maybe its my time in the ISP industry, but I just happened to notice this tiny little ad in the corner of a page. “Free domain”. Well, domain registration isn’t exactly expensive. But the m...