Stu ‘n’ Sonias Weblog

I recently added a couple of PHP WebServices to my site so that I can use them for testing at work and for educational purposes. If you don’t know what a WebService is then you probably don’t need to know, if you are interested then there is a good definition here on wikipedia.
The [...]

I’ve been busy building a new virtual machine today to use as a TIBCO Active Matrix instance and had around 3GB of software installation files to copy across from my local host machine running Windows7 onto my Windows 2000 VM running in VMware Workstation 6.5.
Copying a single 50MB file across the windows administration share onto [...]

Picasa is a great, free piece of software for photo management on your PC. It’s very easy to pickup for anyone with basic PC skills and it covers all the common things you want to do with your photo’s once you transfer them to your PC.
Having recently forced myself to use Picasa I have [...]

Ever since building my new PC I have been cursing myself for having used XP64 as the operating system, the main reason I chose it was cost and suport for more than 4GB of ram but I have been plagued with software that won’t work or wont even install on XP64 that I used frequently [...]

Green Hat have announced formally today that the aquisition of Solstice Software has been finalised along with some detail about what the aquisition will mean to employees of both companies. The US based Solstice office should now take over the lions share of sales and presales work in North America meaning less long haul [...]

A successful conference for Green Hat and a fun(ish) trip for me, not much sightseeing to be had but I did make use of the good exchange rate to spend some birthday money on a new Canon 430EX flash for my camera.
Jeff and I ended up spending most of Saturday Sunday and Monday stressing [...]

This is one of the best ideas I’ve ever seen, its an alarm clock that runs and hides if you press snooze too often so that you can’t reach it from bed to turn it off.
http://www.nandahome.com/products.clocky.html
Would I want one? No chance…. I hate the sound of the alarm. Would I buy one? Definitly, I’d give [...]

I’ve been fiddling with a new gallery template for the odds and ends pictures and have settled on “PGTheme” designed by a guy named Pedro Gilberto. Asside from the obviously crap logo I think I’m pretty happy with it as is.
I suspect I will still use SimpleViewer for one off sets of pictures but [...]