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I left this as a comment over on BrownBot , but I thought it was worth repeating here. To prove that mathematical induction is useless: Prove that if you don’t need it on day (x), then you also won’t need it on day (x + 1) Prove that you don’t need it today...
Crucible has graciously submitted an entry to digg about Comicster . If you have an account there, feel free to digg it and we'll see if we can generate a bit of publicity....
I found out yesterday that the Australian government has contributed $75M to fund the largest solar energy plant in the world , to be built near Mildura in north-west Victoria. The plant will power something like 45,000 homes, and cost around $420M. On LateLine last night , Tony Jones speculated to the...
Keith and co over at the PowerShell Community Extensions project has released an alpha version, which gives you some neat new commands like "get-clipboard" and "set-filedate" in PowerShell. The next version will include my Common Feed Store provider! So anyway, head on over to CodePlex and download the...
The oddest thing happened today. Droplets of liquid began to fall from the sky. On closer inspection it turned out to be water, so I decided to find out more about it. According to wikipedia, it's called rain , and it's actually a common occurrence in other parts of the world. Amazing! In case you're...
Care of Jason Haley's Interesting Finds , here's a great blog post from Christoph Richter about some common mistakes made in code. I agree with all of these, and it's nice to see them all in one place....
I'm going nuts coming up with new and exciting command-lines to interrogate the common feed store using my new PowerShell provider. Check this one out: cd feed: dir -rec | where {$_.Author.Length -gt 0} | group Author | sort Count -desc | select -first 20 Name, Count | ft -au That'll get you the top...
This is very cool. Microsoft have added a "Create Your Own" form to their Add Search Providers page. This means that you can quickly add any site that has a search engine to IE7's search bar. All you have to do is search for the word 'TEST' (in capitals) on the site you're interested...
The latest stuff I've been playing with in my PowerShell FeedStoreProvider is the ability to create and delete items within the store. So now you can do this: # create a new folder called "Mad Props" new-item -name "Mad Props" -type folder # create a new feed withing that folder cd "Mad Props" new-item...
Late last night I made a small but important change to Comicster 's three RSS feeds. For those that weren't aware, Comicster provides (and subscribes to) three feeds from its online database: Recently-updated Characters Recently-updated Creators Recently-updated Issues These feeds give you the last 100...