Thanks to my Mum for pointing me in the direction of a new Irish blog Year of the Big Drought. Markham, a 25 year old Dubliner, is going to give up alcohol on St Patrick’s Day for a whole year and chronicle his experiences online. This should make fascinating reading. His candid posts to [...]

Today is Mother’s Day. Although I think most annual holidays are just Hallmark days, Mother’s Day is an exception. I was actually quite taken aback that I was alone in this view, when discussing it with friends recently. Everyone else thought it shouldn’t exist at all!
Of course, the greeting card companies and florists et al [...]

If you have SQL Server connections to databases on localhost in ASP.NET applications in Dreamweaver MX 2004 and they have suddenly stopped working, or you can’t create new connections, here is one possible reason.
If you installed Windows XP SP2, this breaks the functionality in Dreamweaver which enables you to connect to local SQL Server databases. [...]