OK... so we use the Developer Express Components in some of our projects and we recently found an issue with their reporting library. They had it resolved and a patch delivered to us within a week....

IMHO that's pretty impressive service.

Well done Dev Express.

Our work with the National Poisons Center www.toxinz.com has been published as a MS Case Study

http://members.microsoft.com/CustomerEvidence/Search/EvidenceDetails.aspx?EvidenceID=13423&LanguageID=1

This is not just any old boring case study... becuase The Finalizer is a .NET Powered Battle Bot. As seen @ PDC.

So. I've kind of plateaued on the weight front but am still seeing pretty good body shape changes.

Currently sitting around 103.5 kgs.

I've decided to lift my intensity for a phase of about 4-5 weeks. This means:

• Twice a day, every day exercise. Ideally around an hour on most days. Trying to lift my proportion of time in my MAX heart rate band (170 bpm +)
• More weights. I'm focussing on pushing reasonably high reps still.
• Pretty intensive supplementing reigime*. I started a creatine loading phase on Sunday night. I'm doing twice a day protein shakes (Gymeez OEM stuff). I'm also back on the thermogenics (I know, I know!) but they do give you a kick in the pants.

Anyway. Will be trying to blog about progress a bit more. Eating well at the moment which is good. Probably still need to lift my fluid intake. Anyone got any tips to enforce good water drinking habits?

* In case you think I'm just replacing one breed of processed shit with another I am easting well for main meals.
Typical day:

Breakfast
4 Weetbix, Fresh and Fruity Yogurt, Protein Powder. (Need to add more fruit and veg here)

Lunch
Sachet of Seafood Chowder (not too creamy and fatty variety), chopped cooked lean chicken breast.

Dinner
Ultra lean venison, green slad, corn and bean salad.

Snacks
Nuts- Walnuts, Almonds, Hazlenuts, Pecans, Brazil Nuts
A bit of Gatorade Energy Bar

So the WWF tools for VS.NET 2005 have some 'issues' that can rear their head as strange build errors.

The symptom is that your solution, which has no syntax errors at all, sometimes fails to build and just spouts random bollocks.

What seems to be happening is some wierd caching of types by the designer- reason being is that the designer has to build your custom activities at design time so that you get a nice design experience.

So here are a few tips if you are seeing wierd build errors.

#1. If you are closing VS.NET and/or your solution, make sure that all designer and code documents are closed.

#2. If it's behaving strangely have a crack and building some of the key projects (communication service interfaces, services and activities) individually.

3#. If none of that works, close all your documents, close VS.NET, reopen and rebuild the solution as soon as you re-open.

No not the ASX and NZSX dummy... my weight- in fact I ws up on the stocks I purchased yesterday but I've pretty much quit my NZX holdings (not they they were huge anyway).

Anyway, weight.
103.2 yesterday morning.

Tredning down and hopefully on target for sub 100kg before Xmas...... Still haven't quite saved the $$$ for my Lasik yet so I've got a bit more time....

Yup... unfortunatly Didymo has been found in both the Buller and Hawea catchments.

Details at the NZRCA site.

http://www.rivers.org.nz/

the didymo issue for kayakers

Thank the Lord you don't live in the USA...

Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October.

Daylight Saving Time, for the U.S. and its territories, is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and the state of Arizona (not the Navajo Indian Reservation, which does observe). Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its large size and location in three states.

GAH! So if you're an indian you're on DST but if you're not you're not.... DOH!

OK. So the week started out pretty well for me with my first sub 104kg weigh in. But then it kinda didn't really spark. I didn't do a heap or exercise (Gym Mon, Canoe Polo Tue, Run Wed, Run Fri) and so come this weekend I needed a jump start!

I got up this morning, went to the farmers market, had an apple strudel and some yummy russian deep fried pastie for breakfast...... and then ran/walked up Mt Cargil 5 minutes faster than ever before.... that's like 10% off my best time!

Just to prove it, here is my chart....

We've just released the latest incarnation of our Gemini/Subversion Commenter Utility.

I can't claim to have really provided al that uch input into it... credit for that goes to Nick head and Steven Higgan who are a coule f guys who work with me....

http://tortoisesvn.sourceforge.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/ch05s24.html

SvnGeminiCommenter1.zip (18.08 KB)

Check it out here

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000867059961/

United, bless their souls, have a set of 'Premium' Economy seats in the front of coach. These are not paid for extras but are instead dished out on a first come first served basis.

If you are flying through to a US destination on NZ/UA combined you should ring 0800 747 400 (press 1 then 1) and they will generally be nice and stick you in this section of the plane