All Hallow's Eve come early..

Perhaps? Maybe not. Boy, do I look happy!!

Portable Computing??

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I have seen the future.... it is portable computing...

More Tabby..

This one was taken last weekend, Zara's parents came over for a couple of days....
This is shot of Tabby in her new Gap dress, clapping for us..

This was taken while at Stonehendge - everyone loves megaliths!!!! :-)

Whats' up...

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Tabby playing in her high chair (and making the cutest face).

A few days after this was taken Tabby's first tooth came through...

Tabby clapping and walking

Tabby did two things yesterday that I've not seen before;
a) clapping and
b) walking (while holding onto something - not mummy or daddies arms)

Very proud!!!

Mobile Blogging not working....perhaps

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I've been using Flickr for my mobile blogging, but recently its not been working, I dont get any errors or warning, I just appear to lose 25p... (I have tried using the mobile blogging within blogger, but I just get an error email back).

So this is a test.....

Introducting the over grown spider plant at work.

Visit on Saturday

On Saturday, Granddad and Grandmother Pryce-Jones visited. It was a good day, althought the traffic down to us was quite heavy.

Here are a couple of pics..

View of the Thames from our hotel room

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Two weeks ago, we went to a wedding in Windsor. We stayed in the Thames hotel. In was nice and quiet, great view of the river, but, yes there is but...there were about 20 wasps in the room, most dead, some still had some fight left in them (they were no match for me!).

The wedding was cool, a nice weekend all round.

Seperating Blogs

I've got one blog at the moment that contains all my personal and geek related stuff.

It feels a bit of a mess having them together, so I've split them out.

Markpm.blogspot.com is now my personal blog (which consists mainly of pictures of Tabby) and
GeekOClock.blogspot.com is my geeky one.
googlesearchwithimages.blogspot.com is a Search Page I've been playing with.

So first things first, I've added links to my CodeProject articles.

I am Tabby, hear me roar!!!

Charge!!!!!!

Finished with Harry Potter

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Originally uploaded by pryce maher

You have to start them early.

Tabby is almost 6 months old and has just finished the seventh Harry Potter (see cute picture on right).

When I say finished, I dont mean finished reading, finished destroying!!!!



Behold - the 'updated' copy of Deathly Hallows.

Shop until you drop...

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well she dropped.. We were out in Tesco picking up a few items (milk, bread, loo roll etc), as soon as we got to the check-out, Tabby dropped off for a little kip. (Sleeping like a baby)

Nanna Maher

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I caught this cute pic of Nanna Maher playing with Tabby.

Error when creating a SQL function

I have started using functions in SQL 2005 and I really do like them...But (there is always a but) I got this problem....

Msg 443, Level 16, State 1, Procedure UpdateTenders, Line 71
Invalid use of side-effecting or time-dependent operator in 'newid' within a function.
Msg 443, Level 16, State 15, Procedure UpdateTenders, Line 71
Invalid use of side-effecting or time-dependent operator in 'INSERT' within a function.

 

I got it on a rather natty (if that's how you spell natty) function, if I have to say so myself, but I wasn't doing anything strange with Guids, just an insert.

So after a quick google search found nothing, I changed it to be a stored procedure and it worked!! Hurray for simple solutions...

 

If it doesn't work as a sql function; do it as a stored procedure.

Tracy and James visit

On Tuesday Tracy and Jim came down for a visit. Although it was a short visit, we had a fun morning. But we shall be seeing them very soon!!!!

Google Search with Images

Okay, so not a catchy title, but a fairly descriptive one...

I've been toying around with some ideas on how to improve search engine results. I really like the way the image search on search.live.com brings back results. If this idea could be shared with the way web pages are displayed, then it would be a really cool web search...

So I spent a while looking at all the components needed...

1) a web spider (to index all the pages)
2) imaging software to screen shot the web pages
3) a cool web interface to view the results.
4) somewhere to host the software.

I wrote a very basic (but working) c# demo, but (free) hosting is the problem.

So I started from scratch; is it possible to do all the above, but only write a few lines of code and have it hosted???....

The answer is yes, but just like every compromise, there are limitations...

Lets start again, but pick up free or existing software...

1) use google's search API , its free and I wont say easy, but not impossible to use.
2) websnapr offer a free service of imaging web pages..
3) hmmmm this is an area of limitation...
4) erm, lets see if we can use blogger...

The result is this.... Google Search with Images

Sleep suits you.....

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I thought this would make an interesting comparison.

The white new born sleep suit is laid on top of a 6 to 9 month sleep suit (one from Tabby's current rotation).

They do get big quick!

Live Writer and profile...

I'm testing out Window Live Writer, it looks and feels good. I'm impressed....apart from the uploading of images issue (which isn't a Live Writer problem). I will update with any issues I find..

On-line profile updating...:-)

I've updated fiend reunited, Messenger , myspace and now I've created a Facebook profile

Here goes nothing...time to post....

Online Profile...

I've been reading Bill Thompson's Bill Board on the BBC news web site.

Apart from feeling old, I thought; I want one of those..an on-line profile.. what ever those is..

There are quite a few social networking sites out there, but which is the best? I was talking with some friends at the weekend and they said dont use facebook.... I would have argeed if I knew what facebook was.

So what are the 'cool' sites?
Is myspace still cool? What about friends reunited? and twitter? what the hell is twitter..
Are blogs still cool??

Sometimes my head hurts too much....

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals 'The selected database is not supported' Error

I tried to 'Import Database Schema..' from a SQL 2005 project, I added a new connection.

When I clicked on OK, I got the following error. 'The selected database is not supported.'
(I was connecting to a standard SQL 2005 database...nothing special about it)

I asked our Microsoft contact; James Snape.

He suggested trying to manually add a new database connection from the Server Explorer. This didn't work!! But I did get a different error, 'Key not valid for use in specified state.'.

The solution was: deleted all the Data Connections I had, then add a new one.