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After a long winter season, I decided to go to the garage and check my bike.
It was a bit dusty, but it was soon cleaned, and so I pushed it out to the sunshine.
After a few vain attempts, I got the engine running. I can sure say that at that precise moment, I forgot the existence of the World. :-)
Statistics Finland has launched a Finnish web site that explains the basic statistical terms to the public.
The approach is welcome, as many of the terms needed to study statistic data are very academic in nature.
The web site is good material if you've lost track of those common terms since graduating.
Remember that old Last Ninja game from the Commodore 64 era?
Marcus Geelnard has composed an excellent dance remix of the Wilderness theme. It is available on RKO (which is now again online after a major hardware fault):
http://remix.kwed.org/download.php/2196/Marcus%20Geelnard%20-%20Last%20Ninja%20Wilderness%20%28dance%20mix%29.mp3
Go get it!
Recently, I've been browsing the Net for good digital photography sites. Canon EOS 10D is on my mind, so I found the following pages of excellent help.
Digicamera.net: http://www.digicamera.net/ Digikameran omistajan FAQ: http://www.digifaq.info/ Canon EOS-10D on DPreview.com: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_eos10d.asp
Note that two of the pages are in Finnish.
Want sure signs the spring is soon here?
Well, the SI Swimsuit issue 2004 is again on the shelves and on the Internet.
Go get it!
Today I had some time to play with the Windows Server 2003 Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
This new feature in W2K3 allows even basic users restore files to their previous states without calling tech support personnel.
However, what amused me was the fact that you can even restore a deleted file. If you know the name of the file, you can simply re-create an empty file with the same name, and the return to a previous version.
But, you can also right-click the upper-level folder, and restore its contents to a previous level.
Your personal time machine, as they say!
Hardcore Delphi has published another article of mine.
This is the second part of the "Using Windows 2003's New Role-Based Access Control" article.
Another entertaining tidbit from MSDN, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). It is a simple personal test, and yes, it is kitchen psychology. But, it is fun nonetheless.
The test delivers a four-letter type indicator, and is based on four questions.
The first letter is E (extravert) or I (introvert). This describes how you "recharge your batteries."
The second letter will be N (intuitive) or S (sensing) and describes how you think about things.
The third letter will be T (thinking) or F (feeling) and describes how you make decisions.
The fourth letter will be J (judging) or P (perceiving) and describes how you run your life.
Now, 16 different types is way too board to describe any person properly, but you might still be able to find yourself from these descriptions. Good luck!
I found two new interesting articles from MSDN.
The first article is about Visual Studio "Whidbey", which looks great. The new version contains many features that are "must have" at least in my opinion.
The other article is about Smart Documents in Word 2003. With some little coding, user's can select options from the Task Pane, and Word automatically fills in the document. Cool, and I've seen it live, too using InfoPath 2003.
I got a CD from a trade fair that demonstrates the latest version of SAP Business One for mid-sized companies.
Though I don't like Flash demonstrations with talk and then some more talk, the software looks very nice. It might be a good idea to study it some more.
But first I want to be on techie side and focus on some .NET stuff.
Exception objects are a great thing, but keeping a log of all those exceptions at runtime can be a nasty thing.
An article by Brian Noyes contains information about Microsoft's Exception Management Application Block, or EMAB.
With EMAB, you have a location where to "publish" your exceptions, and then let the EMAB store them in different formats: a file, a database, etc.
EMAB sounds like those products especially in the Java world that are able to catch all exceptions an application generates.
EMAB does just about the same, and only requires a single line of code:
catch (Exception ex)
{
ExceptionManager.Publish(ex);
}
Quite neat.
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