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Yearly Archives 2006

iTunes playlist exporter

A new entry on the Code and Stuff page - exports iTunes playlists to .M3U equivalents. Handy for XBox 360 owners who use Media Connect but want to manage their custom playlists in iTunes on their PC.
Me, in other words.

Posted 29 October 2006 † Simes § Programming ‡ Comments (0) °

Pay Attention

It’s a small and petty thing, I know, but I really do wish people would look at the message the ticket barrier displays to them rather than just yanking the ticket out and then standing and staring dumbly at the non-opening barrier for about 30 seconds. Everyone would benefit.

Posted 04 July 2006 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Just so we’re clear…

When an ACU PgM has a project demand with a potential ITO request (and vice versa), relevant PM/PgM will contact ITO SPoC PgM, introduce the project/requirements and will ask for ITO engagement.
Everyone got that? Good.

Posted 28 June 2006 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Random Quotes from the Web

Today’s favourite:
“getting a degree in software engineering is equivalent to getting a drama major in ventriloquism”

Posted 28 June 2006 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Dark Magic

Last week I unplugged the hard drive in my second PC, plugged in a spare one, and installed the beta of Vista Ultimate in order to check out a couple of things. I haven’t used it enough to come to any conclusions about the OS as a whole, and the main thing I wanted to [...]

Posted 20 June 2006 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Ill.

I used to suffer from a near-permanent low-grade cold. These days, most of the time I’m fine but I occasionally get a four-day virus thing which completely knocks me flat.
This is day 3. It is the suck.

Posted 11 June 2006 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

I aten’t dead…

I’ve just not been posting. Hopefully this new LJ crossposter plugin will work and then I’ll be a bit more likely to update.

Posted 23 May 2006 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Code And Stuff

I’ve chucked a new permanent page on the site, Code and Stuff, which will have any neat snippets of code I write and feel like sharing with the world.
First item: Xbox Live gamercard parser in php.

Posted 09 January 2006 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (4) °

Amazon, the final chapter

So, anyway, having phoned them and had them tell me that the best that they could do was refund my shipping, I decided that if I was going to have bad customer service I might as well buy from somewhere which did free shipping anyway. I’ve therefore decided that I’m not going to use amazon.co.uk [...]

Posted 06 January 2006 † Simes § General ‡ Comments (0) °