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How Microsoft caused apache & php_mysql.dll to fail…using VISTA (dwmApi.dll)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

The Background
Last week I discovered I had quite a few viruses etc.. on my laptop. So I needed to reformat the hard-drive and re-install WindowsXP before I started my new job.
Now before I did all this, I made sure I had a complete back-up of everything off the machine. NB: this is my main development [...]

Using Gmail

Friday, July 6th, 2007

I have started to use GMail in a serious way over the last few weeks and I must say I am quite impressed. Instead of spending 30 minutes every day doing the spam hunt thing, I am now only killing a couple a day.
I love the conversation thing. Where a reply to a message [...]

Byting the hand that feeds you…