Another boring gadgets roundup

As Leah said, I haven’t been blogging much lately. No particular reasons but may be that is it. I didn’t find anything particularly interesting to blog about.

But today I received the new external hard drive I ordered earlier this week. As I discussed before this is part of my backup requirement. So now I have two drives, one 160GB and one 80GB. Plenty enough storage for all three laptops in the apartment. Now I just need to get myself a copy of Norton Ghost to mirror my PC laptop drive.

Inside the Amazon package I’ve also ordered a newer version of the D-Link USB Bluetooth adapter that I already own. This one allow me to use the bluetooth headset for Skype which the old one doesn’t.

And finally, I’ve decided that I won’t get a XBox 360 until Halo 3 is out. So I bought the latest XBox Toca Race Driver 3 so I have a good driving game to hold me out until Halo 3.

Unfortunately I’ll have to work weekends until the end of the month to push out a software release at work. That means less time for TV, games, and more importantly, development work on ecto. Talk of the devil, ecto 2 is close to be beta ready. I just need to finish up with the new installer and I can put it out there for testing! Very exciting.

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It's crazy world out there!

People are not paying for stuff like they are supposed to, but paying for stuff that are free! How crazy is that? 🙂

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Waterfall Software Life Cycle

Best satire site ever!

Waterfall 2006

My favourites

From wordUnit: A Document Testing Framework:

“Writing WordUnit tests in advance of writing documents, also known as Document-Driven Documentation, is a further refinement that leads to even greater efficiency and productivity.”

And from Testing: Saving the Best for Last:

Her most recent article in Better-Defined Software was “If Today’s the Ship Date, I Must Be Done Testing.”

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Make up your mind Gmail

Gmail seems to be unable to make up its mind. I did not join Gmail at the beginning so I don’t know how it was before, but ever since I joined there has been three changes to the description of the option to delete an email.

First it was “Move to Trash”, then a few months back it changed to “Delete” which I like. Then today it changes again to “Move to Deleted Items”.

I can understand ‘Trash’ not being common terms outside North America but I think “Delete” is pretty obvious what it does. Talk about being verbose…

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Devil's lockup

Devilvs2003

At exactly midnight, Dec 13th, 2005 is the moment the devil (a.k.a. ReSharper 2.0 build 210) has taken over my Visual Studio 2003 and eats up all the CPU cycle.

Fortunately, my weapon of choice (End Process in Task Manager) is adequate in slaying the devil, for now…

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