Here’s a quick post to show the progress of the 1/2ish acre that I coppiced in early 2012. Right after the event 9 months later This weekend I know Sept 2012 to now doesn’t look much different, but it’s worth bearing in mind that it’s been a slow year for *any* growth this [...]
The other day my dev server completely died, this was rather inconvenient to say the least. 24 hrs later and my new (excellent, very quiet, powerful but only consuming 150w) HP 54L Proliant Microserver was sitting on my desk ready for building. I’ve done a server build so often that I can do it with [...]
I use a lot of strike-through during my day (well, hopefully I do as I get things done!). Here’s a couple of keyboard short-cuts for strike-through on MS Office products: OneNote: Ctrl + – Excel: Ctrl + 5 Word: Ctrl + D (font menu) then Alt + K (tick strike-through) then Enter Not exactly consistent, but useful nonetheless.
I’m trying to develop an MS Onenote add-on. This hard because I’m a web developer with LAMP skills so the world of C#, Visual Studio 2012, COM, Registries, DLLs and installers is all new to me. To make things worse it seems that Onenote doesn’t qualify for a VSTO and its file format is still closed [...]
After our grand tour these past five years, 2013 is family Beale’s year of settling, observing and preparing. We do have a long list of jobs but we can’t get them all done at once and we know that we need to plan ahead and prioritise rather than get stressed out about a mountain of work. I’ve [...]
Want to find your Windows start-up folder to add a new shortcut? Win+E then clicking through Computer -> C: -> Users -> AppData -> i\forget\where\it\is\these\days buy steroids online with credit card too much of a drag? Try: Win+R then type shell:startup I found a huge list here, most are a bit pointless but cialis online [...]
I just got back from an epic trip to the highlands of Scotland open canoeing with some mates. We were prepared for the sort of weather that an October in northern Scotland could throw at us (which the weather forecasts were also suggesting would happen) but on this occasion they got it wrong and we really lucked [...]
I was building a shared work laptop the other day, something that would be primarily used by me on building sites for system commissioning. As part of the install I had automatically installed Dropbox along with other useful utilities and then suddenly had the thought. “I won't be the only person using the laptop. All my stuff is on here in [...]
Just installed Windows 8? Looking for Notepad? Powershell? Windows+R still works, so you could just run the command. Ditto Windows+E to navigate the file system and find it, but in either case that's not really what you're after is it?. You want a menu of everything installed, right? You need the search interface. This brings up a [...]
We've been a tad busy at the Beale household recently. Mainly with the housebuild/planning permission episode (another story), deciding to buy a house instead, moving to that house (including the hilarity that ensues when moving from a smallholding with sheep, chickens and barn full of wood/tools/straw into an - admittedly relatively spacious - urban setting) and work taking [...]