Simon Chapman's Blog

I thought I'd refresh the look of the blog with a new template that includes liquid flow. Hopefully this view is cleaner than the last. ...

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta is now available - requires Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 . For more i...

To coincide with the release of XNA Game Studio , Microsoft has also released the XNA Framework Redistributable . The XNA Framework Redistr...

Microsoft has released XNA Game Studio Express . For more information see XNA on Channel 9 .

Microsoft has updated their bridseye data. For more information see the Windows Live Local Blog (shouldn't they update the blog name to...

During the mid nineties, the UK had a limited debate on what the government should do to celebrate the new millennium. In the end, the gover...

The T-1000 from Terminator 2 I've just come across the concept of programmable matter from last year's IEEE Computer . The Claytro...

Ofcom has today published a series of essays by academics, politicians and regulators that examine the effect of convergence on the global ...

Frank Savage demonstrates XNA on Channel 9 : Looking at XNA - Part Two . One of the coolest things is watching him setting a breakpoint wit...

Is it me, or has a copyright message appeared on all the tiles downloaded from Google Maps ? I've mainly been using Windows Live Search ...

Here's a neat trick I just stumbled across: On Windows Vista, you can Shift/Right-click on a folder to get the Open Command Window Here:...

Tracepoints in Visual Studio 2005 are such a great debugging tool. Here's a summary of some of the useful things I've picked up rela...

Ofcom today confirmed that low power FM transmitters that help "connect" audio devices such as MP3 players will become legal in t...

Microsoft has released XML Notepad 2007 . Features include: Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick editing of node names and ...

James Fee points out that the latest updates to Google Maps have improved KML handling . Amongst other things, Google Maps now supports im...

In July 2006 Ofcom initiated a consultation on higher power limits for license exempt devices. One idea was that rural devices could have h...

I own a fifth generation Volkswagen R32 : so was amused to see these adverts appear recently: I was not so amused to see that what is suppos...

There's been a minor update to MapCruncher to fix a bug with handling PDF transparencies. The updated version is here . Update: it...

Chetan Sharma reports that Sprint and Verizon have completed their EV-DO Rev. 0 rollout and now have national coverage in the US. This ...

Virtual Earth 3D has been updated to 1.1 (download here ). I'm not sure if I'm imagining it, but it seems faster. I don't think...

MapCruncher has been updated to version 3.00 ( MapCruncher-3.00.zip - see this changelog ). The main changes include: improvements to the ...