I’ve been up since 6am, walking the streets of Pisa. The weather was likely to turn today and I also wanted to get some photographs around the leaning tower without people in them. More importantly i needed to justify lugging my tripod with me! The cloud was just starting to blow in when I left the hotel so I figured I had about an hour before the light would dull and the rain would fall.
It was interesting that there was a few straggling site seers around, I can only presume people getting read to leave, taking the last opportunity before they go. Alternatively they could just be mad like me!
Hopefully i’ve got some half decent shots, I’ll post them when I get back.
Last night we took the last tour up the tower – just as the light was fading; that was some experience! I was very proud of Victoria who once more grappled her fear of hights to add the tower to her conquest of the Statue of Liberty!
It’s 8am now – the bells are calling people to worship – I however need a coffee!!
Accident and Emergency
Rebekah went on a school trip to Fairthorne Manor on Monday. It was her
first trip away from home. So needless to say that Victoria was a little
apprehensive to say the least, even though it was only one night.
At about 10:30pm Monday, we got a call from the Headmaster telling us that
Rebekah had managed to cut her head open; she’d been returning from the
toilet and walked into the bunk ladder ( or something like that ). Anyway,
they were taking her to A&E – did we want to meet them there.
I met them at Southampton General. Rebekah was tired but on the whole ok.
It was a nasty little cut, close to her left eye, but nothing a couple of
butterfly stitches wouldn’t sort out.
We were out of the hospital by about 12:30am, so I was home by 1am.
Rebekah went back to Fairthorne with the teachers, there was no real
reason for her not to, and she would have been devastated had she missed
the second day.
One thing that struck me about the hospital was that they have a separate
reception for children and adults; which is really nice. You can sit there
with your children and not have to worry about the drunks and the waifs
and strays.
We picked Rebekah up from School on Tuesday evening… she was shattered!
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Safari for Windows – Proxy Authentication
Safari Not Asking For Proxy Password
Dull posting here, but I decided to post it in order to record a technical
problem and solution for an issue I recently had with Safari.
When running behind a proxy, Safari for windows uses the proxy settings
from IE. It’s easy to set the address of the proxy by selecting
Preferences:Advanced:Proxies – Change Settings
The first time you do this, Safari will ask you for a username and
password so that it can authenticate your connection. If you select
“remember password” it will NEVER ask you for this again. I use the word
NEVER hear loosely – it might ask you, I just don’t know under what
circumstances.
So, if your password changes, Safari has the wrong password and will be
unable to connect.
If you uninstall Safari and Reinstall it… the problem remains.
The Solutions is: Delete the keychain.plist file from the directory
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Apple
Computer\Preferences
This is under XP, the directory will be different under Vista.
Restart Safari and it will ask you for the authentication again.
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Timbles Silverlight
I mentioned previously that I was working on a new project.: Timbles. I also mentioned that I was developing it under Vb.net. And I also mentioned that I was using DirectX3D using SlimDX… Well… things changed…
The game was coming along nicely, and I had taken it into school and installed it on a number of their machines, and on the whole it was working ok. Their were just a few things niggling me about the installation process. That is; it was a pain. I felt it was coming a big ask to get people who were not used to installing games, to install DirectX. And not to mention that some of the machines struggled installing .Net2.0 – once everything was installed it all worked a treat. The process was just a little off putting.
Over the last 6 months I have done very little on Timbles. I started writing the backoffice code that would become the Measurements Server for the game; the idea is that everything that happens on the game is recorded by the measurements server so that teachers can run reports to see how the kids are performing. However, I didn’t touch the game much.
Anyway, last week started doing some work with Microsoft Silverlight, ( for those of you not familiar with it – think Flash ), and I’ll touch more on the specifics in a later post. Anyway, I now have almost all of Timbles running in a browser. Which means it is supported on all the platforms supported by Silverlight.
Here are some screenshots. Please excuse the poor quality – I hadn’t realised that I’d saved them in rubbish quality mode!
I hope to get a version running on my site for testing purposes, over the next week or two.
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The Chain
Sat here listening to my iPod and wondering… just how many extra sales
of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain there have been
since the BBC started covering F1 again?
doo, da da do, da da do da da doooo…..