http://nicbedford.co.uk Where my thoughts on life, the universe and everything trickle onto the internet... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:57:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saw this on TV yesterday (yes, that's right in the UK we get the Halloween special a week late :( ) Anyway, it made me chuckle. So I thought I would share it. However, I better add a disclaimer first. The views expressed here are entirely my own and not ... http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/11/10/simpsons-halloween-special-2008/ You may have already seen that Microsoft have released there first beta of Windows Vista SP2, as it was reported on several sites yesterday, one of my favorities is Rafael's Within Windows blog. So you've probably already heard that there's nothing much in there and it's just a collection of ... http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/10/23/vista-sp2-build-16489-for-x64/ What did the web look like 10 years ago to you? Well I was in my final year at university and was developing a new website for the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This was my first attempt at doing anything HTML related (along with a few other technologies ... http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/10/07/a-little-bit-of-nostalgia/ I've done a little more work on my System Restore point explorer, and it now actually allows you to explore :) I've made use of the excellent AlphaVSS library which exposes the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) API's as native .net objects. I've been having a few issues accessing these ... http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/09/29/explore-system-restore-points/ Well Julie and I have just gotten back from our holiday in Mauritius. We stayed at the 5* resort of Legends, which was absolutely fantastic. We also explored around the island and had great fun, especially walking with the lions. Here are a few pictures. http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/09/17/mauritius/ A couple of days ago my C: drive ran out of disk space and I was a little confused, because only a few days earlier I had around 30GB free, so I decided to do some digging and figure out where it had all gone... Anyway to my surprise it had ... http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/08/28/system-restore-disk-space/ Microsoft have released v2.0 of there SyncToy tool, which is freely available from here. This had previously been available in beta form, but it is now officially released and has a native x64 version :) http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/08/18/synctoy-20/ Well Sunday was a lovely day here, the sun was really strong and we had to get all dressed up to go to our friends wedding. We had a great day and hopefully the bride and groom did too :) Here are a few photo's I took during the day, ... http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/07/29/jon-michelles-wedding/ Power Pack 1 - Come and get it!, that's what the WHS team blog says. Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing and can now be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center. PS. If you had previously installed the Release Candidate, then you'll need to un-install this first and if ... http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/07/22/windows-home-server-power-pack-1-rtm/ Well I have just gotten back from another years camping trip with my university buddies. We have been camping every year since graduation (that's 10 years now!). Here's a few pictures from the weekend. http://nicbedford.co.uk/2008/07/21/stanstock-x/