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Monthly Archives October 2009

Behind the scenes

If you’re at all interested in Windows and / or development, this is one blog you should not miss: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/ - Engineering Windows 7. Very well written articles, not only from technical or marketing point of view, but from the users’ too. Muy interesting-o.

| Posted 27 October 2009 | Antti | Programming | Comments Off |

It’s the little things that make all the difference

I’ve upgraded a few of my computers to Windows 7, and finally found a feature that I would’ve paid for many times over. It’s not the shake-the-window-to-clear-the-desktop type of gadgetry, nor anything to do with the fancy new filesystem stuff, nothing like that at all. It’s the date being shown where the time is, on [...]

| Posted 26 October 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Under construction

A friend opened a shop a while ago, and I’m helping them with a webshop / online catalogue. While we’re building the site, there’s a temporary “under construction” page on the site. It was quite typical at first, but then I had a moment of boredom and thought, well, why is it always like that, [...]

| Posted 23 October 2009 | Antti | Programming | Comments (1) |

Pay what’s due, in time

I have my own small business. It’s growing, but slowly. I send out anything between 2 to 20 invoices a month, and I’ve estimated that about half of them are paid late. Typically around 3 to 5 days late. And I give 14 days to pay it, that’s two weeks, so it can’t be too [...]

| Posted 22 October 2009 | Antti | Old crow whining | Random stuff | Comments Off |

Passwords and funny people

I just happened across a system that stores passwords in plain text, and couldn’t resist my curiosity – I just had to look. People, let me tell you this once more: “1234″ is not a good password, neither is “qwerty” (or even “qwerty1″, “qwerty12″ or “qwerty123″). As annoying as it can be, try to come up [...]

| Posted 21 October 2009 | Antti | Random stuff | Comments Off |