http://www.konfabulator.com/

All I can say is download and check it out, pretty cool addes those cool things to your destop till Longhorn (eh Vista) is released.

The first step to migrate your SQL Server

Download here

"The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor is a tool used by Database developers and administrators to analyze SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 database servers in preparation for upgrading to SQL Server 2005. The Upgrade Advisor will allow users to analyze the configuration of their existing database services and database applications. As a result of this analysis, Upgrade Advisor will provide reports that identify deprecated features and necessary configuration changes that will impact their Database upgrade process. Upgrade Advisor will also provide links to documentation that describe these changes and necessary steps to complete the process."

Got this article on Unicode via freelancers.net

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html. A good intro to the workings of Unicode and why it is so

Two days to move house. Never knew how much stuff we had till we had to move. Anyways its all done, and I'm dead tired. It will be a few days till I get broadband over here. I'm cancelling my existing Tiscali service and moving to UKOnline hopefully :).

Funny presentation by Rich Bowen http://people.apache.org/~rbowen/presentations/apacheconEU2005/hate_apache.pdf

On the same topic is there a GUI administration tool for Apache on Windows ?

I'm looking for information on how Apache for Windows compares to IIS. Since Apache Win32 can be used with .Net, how many of you will use it in a production environment ? Since any Windows Server comes with IIS anyway my opinion is that this is not a very useful combination, other than to use it for testing on a development machine. IIS 6.0 has given good a performance in my experience, but I havn't compared it against Apache Win32. IIS 6 would have the upper hand since the HTTP processing is integrated into the kernel.

Should I be wary of Thursdays ?  

Was trying to go to a friend's place in Wood Green (North East London). Went to Victoria station to get the Vicroria Line, only to be told it was shutdown upto Warren Street, we then went back to Embankment to try to get there using the Northern Line, just as we got off the train, the station was evacuated. So we go out, and try to figure out what bus to take. We then walked to Trafalgar Square and had  a calm lunch while the police were running around with sirens blaring. At last got a bus to take me to Hammersmith and then home. Started at 12 and its taken 5 hours to get home and I'm dead tired from all the walking.

Be sure to visit all the options undfer "Configuration" in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 16 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.

Got a few games from over here

http://www.volny.cz/k700hry/
http://www.volny.cz/k700hry2/
http://www.volny.cz/k700hry3/

and  http://maestro.intramail.ru/files/java/index.php?name=T

I'm looking at two browser based HTML editors. I've shortlisted my choices to two TinyMCE http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ and FCKEditor http://www.fckeditor.net/. Both are F/OSS and TinyMCE is used on Mambo. It is quite customisable but I still have to figure out  how to fit in my own custom image filemanager. FCKEditor comes with a filemanager, but does not have the feature to disable buttons on the editor. This is because I wont need all the features (may confuse users). If I'm able to do a file manager for TinyMCE, I'll use it.

On the same topic, PostXING is what I've been using to post entries on here and very happy with it. Very stable and has good editing features. Now only if they would add a spell checker.

Just to let everyone know that me and my family are ok. Although I'm very shocked that it actually happened. I never expected it to happen in London, but so much for that.

As of now there are 37 fatalities. This has been well planned to scare and create chaos, but not much of chaos. This has hit the transport system bad, but I think it will be back to normal soon. Travel on the Underground will not be the same again. However, London has handled it very well...good work by the authorities

Was searching  for Web Accessibility info and got this site http://www.ua-wg.org/articles/
From reading all of this, it is not hard to create accessible websites, all that is needed is the mindset and sticking to a few simple rules. The side effects from building an accessible website is that the site's usability is increased. This makes it easier for normal people to use the site. The articles also suggests that accessibility improves search engine rankings. This makes sense because if the structure and content of the site are cleanly separated it will be easy for a search engine bot to crawl through the site. It also makes the site easier to view from other devices such as phones and PDAs.

I also learnt about the label tag for the first time. Using the<label> tag tolabel form elements will set the focus to the form element when the label text is clicked. Why go through complex tables and css when there is a simple set of tags to group related form elements, just like the group box control in Windows Forms. This also shows a simple way to group items within a dropdown box.

This site conforms to Priority 1 of the WAI guidelines, but with many warnings. There is an automated testing tool at http://webxact.watchfire.com/. From the errors given, it doesn't seem much work to make this site conform to all 3 checkpoints. To conform with the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) a website will have to conform to Priority 1 and Priority 2 of the WAI guidelines.

An article by Robert Adler in the newscientist says that the rate of technology innovation is decreasing. In the US the period between 1847-1915 was the most innovative period, with the rate of innovation peaking in 1915.

My analogy on this is ; Innovation is like digging for treasure. Humans have found the easy to find treasure (electricity, nukes, Internet etc.. ).. and now we have to dig harder to find the rest. The problem is we are not digging as hard as we did....