My old team mate has made it to the Imagine Cup finals again - http://11011.net/archives/000533.html

Without me to hold him back I'm sure Doug can go all the way this year. Good Luck Doug!

Wow, I've never actually found a picture of one... till now - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Bear

Easy - rebuild your machine and don't backup your OPML...

I recently installed the latest MSN toolbar with support tabbed browsing. Having never used a browser with tabs, I'm finding the experience... well, frankly not up to the hype - It's nice, but I can alt-tab just as quick as I can ctrl-tab (plus alt-tabs allow me to flip between windows, rather than simply cycle through them).

Anyway, that's not the point of this post. One thing I've noticed is the rather glaring flashes that happen when switching between tabs. It appears that their implementation of tabs basically consists of hiding the various IE windows and switching which one is visible when you change tabs. This means that switching tabs can be quite annoying visually and can sometimes take longer than switching windows using alt-tab).

For the moment I'll keep using them for the sole purpose that you can be reading one page while keeping track of whether another page has finished loading or not. Other than that I'm not convinced...

In an effort to get this blog back from whatever dark recess it had retreated to, I'm going to make a simple link post. The UI Hall of Shame is a blog after my own heart. It points out how annoying some software can be when it decides to strike out on its own and create whole new, confusing, UIs instead of following the standards. However, a quick search reveals they haven't stumbled across the leader of the field - Band in a Box. The most annoying thing is that this is such a great program that it actually overcomes what is no doubt the worst windows UI I've ever come across.

I've recently switched container formats for my TV captures to MP4. Additionally I've got subtitle capturing working on my VisionPlus card so I can now store subtitles with my capture. When I mentioned this to Dominic he asked about indexing which gave me the idea of writing an IFilter for MSN desktop search to index the subtitles.... now I just have to find time to do it :)