Here's one that might save me some time in future:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BrowseNewProcess

determines whether each IE instance should run within a new process. It "randomly" changed on one of my workmate's machines over the weekend and we've just wasted half an hour figuring out what was up!

Hey, we're all a bit arrogant when we're coding sometimes, but you've got to love the following comment I just found regarding String.split:

/**
* Convenience method to build a string array from a delimited string.
* Due to a silly bug in split, it will only return all empty tokens if there is at least
* one non-empty token at the end of the string. To get around this, a dummy token is added
* to the string before splitting. This dummy token is removed to the returned string array.
*
*/

Sigh - so there's this crazy bug in split() that no one else has ever noticed!! ;p

Unfortunately I can't work out who the original author is in order to educate them, so I've just checked it back in to CVS with the following amendment:


* -- As I can't be sure who wrote this, I'm writing this comment in the hope they'll
* see it:
* BTW, this isn't a "silly bug" in split - using the one arg method split calls
* split(String re, int limit) with a limit of 0. The API documentation clearly states:
* "If n is zero then the pattern will be applied as many times as possible, the array can
* have any length, and trailing empty strings will be discarded."
*
* What should actually be done is to use split(delimitedString, -1);
*

without actually amending the code (it would have to be regression tested, and the "workaround" does work I guess...).

Wow, finally decided that I'd update my Journal!

Had a good weekend, out on the Saturday night in Nottingham where we bumped into the (Ex-)Morse people who were out celebrating their release :) Went for a nice curry and drank far too much beer... Had a little fall on the way to the club too - slipped on a road sign or something (who can I sue?!)

Anyhow, the previous night ensured that I felt crap for the whole of Sunday, but I was cheered up by the fact that we got another kitten - Yay! It doesn't seem to be getting on with the others particularly well yet, but that's a work in progress... given that I'm down in London, Lou's going to be sorting that out (along with all the lovely cat poo too!)

OMFG! Look who's coming to England:

http://www.blueoystercult.com/Road-main.html

Yay!! So who's going to come and see BOC with me? I'm up for any of the dates! Obviously going to be making an appearance at the Nottingham one ate the very least!

No spoilers here, but how freaky was that last episode?!?

Man, now I have to wait for season 3! Looks like they're definitely making it though, so that's a good thing.

This is going to be of interest to a very small audience :)

waterhoose - I've stuck what I could grab from the Web Archive on http://www.magicpete.org.uk/Polarised/ - it's good for a quick look at but obviously most of the links don't go anywhere after you get past the first page :(

meme from luciphah- Strange, I thought my humour was slightly darker than that...

the Ham (23% dark, 61% spontaneous, 26% vulgar)

your humor style: CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | LIGHT Your style's goofy, innocent and feel-good. Perfect for parties and for the dads who chaperone them. You can actually get away with corny jokes, and I bet your sense of humor is a guilty pleasure for your friends. People of your type are often the most approachable and popular people in their circle. Your simple & silly good-naturedness is immediately recognizable, and it sets you apart in this sarcastic world. PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Will Ferrell - Will Smith The 3-Variable Funny Test! - it rules - If you're interested, try my best friend's best test: The Genghis Khan Genetic Fitness Masterpiece

Had a nice weekend at Lou's parents for the Easter. Ended up going out on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and managed to fall asleep in pubs on two nights - d'oh! 

louweasel asked me what "Badger Badger Badger" was, so I introduced her to Weebl's toons  - she ended up watching most of the toons on there, and I think some of them may have disturbed her a bit! She spent quite a while looking into the pschology of Salad Fingers...

It's been a while since I updated my Journal, about a month in fact.

Loads of stuff is going on at the moment - louweasel and I have bought a house (well we're in the process of buying - silly mortgages!) It's a bit closer to the job in Derby so that's nice, although I'm a bit worried that Lou's journey time is going to shoot up.

Heh, when I said "loads of stuff" it looks like I just meant the house really, but I guess that's kind of a big thing to sort out so that's probably why it seems like that.

Off to louweasel's parents for the Easter weekend - should be good. We've had to get the pet sitters in to look after the kitties (if you can still call them that), hope that all goes ok.

Also been writing a website for a mate's brother's band - the Sinatra Sextet - you can have a peek here: http://www.sinatrasextet.com. At the moment it's hosted on Easily, but because of their package limitations the URL just loads a frameset which points to another URL - got to love that. Going to invest in some Virtual Server hosting from http://www.bytemark.co.uk to solve that on brindy's recommendation.

Another little project that I thought I'd do was to resurrect the Polarised website - ahhh, nostalgia. So that should be up in the next week or so with however much content I can glean from the Web Archive at http://www.archive.org/ - waterhoose, do you have any of the content at all still? I know you've got all the pictures hosted but I nabbed a copy of them anyhow.

Anyhow, that's enough of an update for now!

Went to see Jack Johnson at the N.E.C. last night with louweasel and my brother. Despite getting completely lost whilst walking there from the E4 car park (I insisted that this would be more fun than getting the shuttle bus), we still managed to get there whilst the first support act was still on - not that we saw any of that though, just hung around outside the arena for a bit. Got seated in time for the second support act, Matt Costa. To be honest I thought the guys tunes were pretty good, but I wasn't a big fan of his singing! 

Jack finally got on stage at around 9ish and played a top notch set and the musicians were using some pretty unusual instruments at times - I think a melodica and something that was shaped like a lute (although I don't think it was one). Anyway, it was a good show and I'm thinking that I'll have to add a few JJ songs to the repertoire, not that I'll attempt to sing them though. I just have to figure out his funky sounding hammer on / off technique that he uses too!