Where my thoughts on life, the universe and everything trickle onto the internet…
The Windows Home Server Team have Announced Power Pack 2. Allegedly, starting today, Power Pack 2 is to be made available via Windows Update. I’ll be checking out my home server this evening, when I get home and keep you posted.
I’m guessing (and hoping) that PP2 will be able to correctly detect a Windows 7 client.
Edit: Yes it does recognise Windows 7 as a client 
Julie and I have just spent the weekend in Hambleton, for Margret and Tony Knox’s Golden Wedding Aniversary, we had a great weekend and as usual I took loads of photo’s. Here are a selection.
A couple of friends and myself have just gotten back from a good weeks skiing in the 3 Valleys. We stayed in the Residence Les Sentiers Du Tueda in Meribel-Mottaret. Here are a few photo’s that were taken during the week. Mostly the holiday consisted of skiing, eating lasagna and drinking beer. With the odd game of Uno and Pass the Pigs.
So when did you celerbrate the start of 2009? Did you remember to add a leap second last year? If this all sounds like gibberish to you, then take a read here.
Update
And I bet you all thought that this wouldn’t really matter, but no, it’s just like the Y2K thing all over again. Oracle have been caught by it and even Microsoft Zune’s.
Well WordPress 2.7 has been released, so I have performed the upgrade, along with grabbing the latest nightly build of K2. According to the K2 blog everything should be ok.
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 those of my employer.
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 previous fixes, albeit about a 290MB collection. Well standback and prepare to be flabagasted, because on x64 Vista Ultimate, that colection grows to about 490MB, it must be all those 64bit pointers
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 of the time such as server side includes and CGI-BIN). It was very basic by today’s standards. Anyway I was randomly browsing the web earlier and actually came across some of my original pages still being served up by the web server’s at NTU, complete with the original comments embedded within the HTML source
So this is what the web looked like for me 10 years ago.
<!-- nic bedford 09/12/1997 -->
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 in Vista x64, but I have tested this in Vista x86 and it appears to be working ok. Again feedback is welcome via comments.
