Longhorn Blogs

Scoble has a new blog over on Longhorn Blogs.

I've had my own Longhorn Blogs RSS stream for a while now. Its called Feedster. Subscribe to this Feedster Search: http://www.feedster.com/rss.php?q=longhorn&sort=date&ie=UTF-8

It will give you a balanced mix of Longhorn information.

Verio Router a Wet Blanket

Whats the deal with this Win32 tracert to the FTO community website I co-founded. Its been like this for 4 days now. I figured that if Verio had a router problem it would get fixed pretty quick. No one in WA can get to the fucking website.

Tracing route to ftowa.com [63.251.216.72]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 160 ms 150 ms 150 ms i014-016.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.14.16]
2 151 ms 571 ms 169 ms per-qv1-core1.iinet.net.au [203.59.49.162]
3 160 ms 150 ms 139 ms 203.59.49.177
4 144 ms 139 ms 150 ms hsrp-border.wa.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.247]
5 220 ms 200 ms 210 ms at-0-1-0-317.AR1.SYD1.gblx.net [203.192.130.65]
6 221 ms 210 ms 209 ms ge0-0-0-1000M.cr2.SYD1.gblx.net [203.192.136.85]
7 475 ms 410 ms 521 ms pos2-1-155M.cr2.LAX1.gblx.net [203.192.136.66]
8 351 ms 410 ms 410 ms so0-0-0-2488M.br1.LAX1.gblx.net [67.17.68.141]
9 381 ms 400 ms 380 ms alchemey.pos3-0.cr2.LAX1.gblx.net [208.50.21.218]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * ge-4-2.a01.lsanca18.us.ra.verio.net [204.1.254.129] repo
rts: Destination net unreachable.

Trace complete.

A Funny Story

This post over on eric's blog gave me a bit of a laugh. Its funny who we can blame for the things that go wrong in our lives :)

Ben Cousins and Chad Morrison

It has come to my attention from very reliable sources that the following West Coast Eagles wear the following underwear. Why am I posting this? Because I can!

Ben Cousins: Bonds Dynamite String Bikini

Chad Morrison: Mooks Hipster Trunks (No Image Available)

Socket Progamming in .NET

I am trying to write a simple tracert program in .net and have come across a problem. Assume that the rest of the packet data is correct.

I set the sockets TTL to 10 using the following code:

Then send data out of the socket using an Echo request, then receive data from the socket. Now effectively the ref EndPoint remoteEP should now be set to an end point matching the 10th hop on its route to the destination, instead it contains an end point matching the actual destination.

Anyone got any idea on this?

SharpReader Memory Usage

I have been using SharpReader for about 6 Months now and with my modest list of feeds SharpReader now takes up well over 100meg of RAM when loaded. I wonder if Luke has any plans to fix this by using a database store instead of XML, or some smarter XML handling?

The End and the Beginning

Today I handed in my resignation. It was a sad moment as I will be leaving behind some good friends and colleagues, however its mixed with the excitement of starting something new in the UK. If you haven't read my earlier posts, my girlfriend Sarah secured a position as dietitian in SouthEnd hospital in Essex. she will be leaving for the UK in a few weeks time and I will be following her over in the middle of November.

There is suddenly so much to do. So many loose ends to tie up at work, notes to write, car and bunch of other random stuff to sell, phone accounts to close, bills to settle. Still have a while to deal with it all though however I know the final 6 weeks at work will be very hectic.

If anyone is hiring in Essex or West London, please drop me a line, I'll be glad to accept your offer :). Alternatively, if anyone knows anyone looking to hire a C, C#, .NET, Clarion or Perl developer in the general vicinity then drop me a line to. Monster.com is so bare these days!

Freo vs Bombers Final Score

Freo lost bigtime :(

Freo vs Bombers Quarter 3

Freo 4 . 6 . 30
Bombers 11 . 8 . 74

:(

Freo vs Bombers Half Time

Freo 3 . 4 . 22
Bombers 7 . 6 . 48

Looks like its going to be painfull :(

Freo vs Bombers Quarter 1

Freo 2 . 2 . 14
Bombers 3 . 4 . 22

Whats the deal with James Hird's Haircut? It looks like he has stepped right off the set of The Bold and the Beautiful.

Welcome September, Welcome Spring

What a fantastic start to Spring! Balmy mid 20 degree celcius days with low humidity. What more could one ask for? (other than not having to go to work and sit in an office coding all day?)