Heh, today is the second last day of school for the year, and the end of many great tv shows for 2006. Some of which include: Jericho (ended today, although, i must say they hyped the so called cliffhanger up a lot, when it really wasn’t much), Prison Break (very good cliffhanger, didn’t expect it at all. To watch some behind-the-scenes stuff on fox.com/amex look at one of my earlier posts) and My Name is Earl (finished tonight on Channel Seven). Now Channel Ten/Seven/Nine/SBS etc will be feeding crap down our necks for the next 8 weeks. The start includes American Idol (the ads are almost as gay as the tv show itself). Although, some reasonably good shows are coming back such as Numb3rs (as they are expected to have at least ONE decent show for the christmas season). In around 15 hours I shall be on 8 weeks of holidays. Goddamn.
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There was this GREAT movie on Channel 9 (Patriot Games) on Friday night, but I couldnt watch it because the reception on my TV Tuner Card software was down the toilet, even though the TV in the lounge room has crystal clear channel 9 coverage (and crappy ABC, but who watches the ABC anyway).
The only channel that is exceptional on the tuner card is probably channel 10, where all the good shows are (like Numb3rs, Law And Order, Blind Justice and so on). My channel 7 coverage is ok, but its not the greatest. Looks like i’ve gota get me a better TV Tuner card some time…for now it’ll do. There better not be another good show on channel 9 tonight….
For all that are wondering where to get the TV Guide for australia from its on Channel 9’s Site. Some other werid stuff is happening with the TV Tuner card too…apparently I can tune into the local radio stations when i go to Channel 6 and manually edit the frequency…cool.
I love Microsoft Word for one reason, because you can make macros in Visual Basic 6 (wish they would use VB.NET). I discovered a really cool use of the macros at school the other week. Without further ado:
Sub test()
If (Application.Assistant.Visible = True) Then
Application.Assistant.Animation = msoAnimationEmptyTrash
Else
Application.Assistant.Visible = True
Application.Assistant.Animation = msoAnimationEmptyTrash
End If
End Sub
Select your office assistant as that robot dude (F1) and then run that macro, it makes him explode over and over and over again!
Enjoy.
The other day on neowin, I was reading a couple of news article in the NFN Section (Not for nerds), and there was one story that particularly grabbed my attention. Apparently in canada, some kids were having a threesome and they heard the parents coming home, so one had the VERY bright idea of tieing a few bedsheets together and re-enacting repunzel, except there was no princess envolved. The teenager then plunged to his death. If the fall hadn’t have killed him, the father of the girl would have ;).
Most people I know use iTunes as their music player. As with anything, there is a lot more you can do with Visual Studio + a COM SDK. Apple has made one for the iTunes music player, and I have been using it for quite a long time. It is available Here. You are able to connect to iTunes with Perl, JScript, C++, C#, VB.NET and probably some more. One language that you can connect to iTunes with is PHP, and there is very little documentation doing this. So, before you start, you need PHP5 (as it has fully rewritten COM internals) and Apache2, if you try with PHP4/Apache1.3.34 you will probably just get a PHP crash and a few ugly errors. You can get apache Here, and PHP5 from Here.
Stay tuned for Part Two.
Welcome to the blog, it might not be updated often but heh. (Who updates blogs often anyway?). On here you will find some code (mainly VB.NET, and C#), MSN Messenger Relataed news and some other crap.
Enjoy.
