Archive for June, 2008
Official date
Chell and I have officially set a date for our wedding which is Saturday May 23, 2009, which is 334 days away. We decided on that date since it will be our two year anniversary.
We are going to try save up some money and pay for Mum & Dad to fly up for the weekend, hopefully they will be able to make it. Now all we need to do is look at all the possible locations for the wedding, design the inites and write up the guest list.
I can’t wait until next year to be wed to my lovely fiancée (I love you Chell), I always get so excited when we talk about it, it’s amazing.
Tags: wedding
Firefox 3 is here
The much awaited and anticipated web browser is here. Firefox 3 has been awhile in the making, and just for the people that like reading over the release notes, they are also available.
To become part of the Guiness World Records, please go ahead and download Firefox 3, you have roughly until 04:00 on the 19th, as it only lasts for 24 hours, c’mon people, set a world record!
Enjoy this release, and remember to download Firefox 3 – The best Firefox yet.
Firefox 3.0 RC3 Released
The Mozilla Foundation have recently released Firefox 3.0 RC3, which is one step closer to the final release. You can check out the release notes for Firefox 3.0 RC3, or go straight to the download page. Now remember that these builds are for testing purposes only, so enjoy.
Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 15,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.
Sickness, Movies, Rest
I started getting sick on Sunday, which was quite bad. I couldn’t sleep properly, coughing all the time, nausea e.t.c. It has worked in my favour though, as I am still sick, I have pretty much quit smoking which is good.
I have Tue/Wed off work, so Chell and I decided to hire some movies and be lazy / let me rest for the two days which has been great.
I was feeling a bit better yesterday, so Chell and I decided to get some prawns for dinner, and we got some garlic and made garlic prawns for dinner, they were delicious.
We dropped the magna off at the mechanic’s this morning to get the brakes done on it, so hopefully they will be all fixed. We then bought some doritos for snacks to night for when we watch the state of origin, c’mon maroons!
That’s all for now, I hope I feel better by tomorrow, this is four days now I’ve felt like crap!
Update: I awoke this morning, feeling a lot better, which is great. My throat is still a little sore. The might maroon’s dominated the field last night, winning state of origin II, the end result – QLD: 30, NSW: 0. Now all we have to do is win the 3rd and final game in 3 weeks, I know we can do it!
Windows Live Writer 14 (Technical Preview)
Well, I just downloaded and installed the new WLW 14 Preview (Build 14.0.3913.522), and it has some nice changes. Some of the changes, as posted on the Writer Zone are:
Video and Image Publishing Enhancements
- Upload videos to Soapbox
- Image cropping and tilting
- Additional border styles
- Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
- Support for centering images
Editing Enhancements
- Auto Linking
- Smart quotes/typographic characters
- Word count
UI Improvements
- Revised main toolbar
- Tabs for view switching
- Improved category control with search/filtering
Tags: Windows Live Writer
Where did hibernation go, Vista?
I was going through all the Vista power options, trying to get my Hibernation mode back on, which seemed to have disappeared.
I found out the hibernate option will disappear if you have recently run Disk Cleanup, which I did. By running this it removes the hiberfil.sys file resulting in no hibernation. See Microsoft article KB928897.
After googling around, I found a simple method to enable / disable hibernation:
1. Click start, type "command" in the Start Search box (without quotes)
2. Right-click Command Prompt in the Programs list, and click "Run as Administrator"
3. If User Account Control prompts you to allow the action, click on Continue.
4. In the Command Prompt, type "powercfg –h off" (or "on" without the quotes), then press enter.
5. Close the Command Prompt window and you’re done 
You should now have hibernate and hybrid sleep options for your power profiles.
Tags: Vista