Well quite a few blog writers have been quiet lately including myself - cant find anything to post about at present and seems others have similar problems, most of the blogs I read have been quiet lately....

Hopefully new content will come soon!

As I mentioned earlier here I will continue updating my experiences using GTalk every now and then.

Now yesterday I ran into the most annoying thing in GTalk, this could put me off using GTalk for a loong while!

One of the features I find very handy in MSN Messenger is the option to save conversations. Now unless I am somewhat blind, GTalk doesnt seem to have this option, very very annoying!

I was in a conversation yesterday with someone and after the conversation ended, I wanted to check something from the conversation and bingo, it only keeps a history of the last few lines .... :( :(

Have I missed the option for this feature? Or is it really not there.

Also, Rod this brings me an idea for the next version of AfterMail .

I guess IM's are occassionally used for meetings ... and perhaps the conversations can sometimes contain important info to the people of the meetings,so provided they have an option to store conversations such as MSN ..etc, hmm... the rest you already know :)

So Telecom had their 3G network released for a while now and Vodafone have recently followed with theirs. Now there are a lot of good things that come with the 3G network, not all necessary features but all are cool!

Now like me you may have thought that a Smartphone does everything one might ever dream of doing (at least IMO it does everything I need) so I confidently went to Vodafone and asked someone if Smartphones are 3G enabled and she said no, then I was like I'm sure they are capable of it so will they be in the future and she denied saying that this wont be the case with the current models.

So, conclusion, there are things a smartphone can't do :( :(

Saw this in the DotNetJunkies newsletter today. I haven't played much with O/R Mappers myself but thought it may be of interest to some of you.

James Carpinter, the current Student Ambassador and my successor as a Student Ambassader, has now started blogging. He is currently looking for someone to replace him as a Student Ambassador as he is leaving university this year.

Are you a student at Canterbury who is interested in this then let him know or let Paul Lo the Academic Advisor at Microsoft know.

The program is really great and there is a lot you can get out from it.

Got any questions about the experience? ask me or ask James

Also, I took the Student Ambassador role one step further and was involved this year with the first Student Advisory Board for version two (which is now live) of theSpoke. There is a big chance they will be arranging a new board next year, so if you think this will be an interesting challenge, then stay tuned and keep an eye on Mario's Blog

Probably all of you know that stuff already but for those that dont. ASP.NET by default does not treat non MS browsers as uplevel browsers leading to ASP.NET controls being rendered incorrectly. Well the solution for that is to include browser caps in the .config files of the application.

Here is a great article that explains all about this, and here is a browserCap section already written to handle non MS browsers including many of the unfamiliar ones.

Came accross this document today. Provides a detailed history of MS since it started back in the late seventies.

I also found it interesting that MS is only about 1 month away from its 30th anniversary! They'll probably have a big celebration then...

Rod blogged asking about how startup programs slow down your machine when too many of them are there leading to your machine taking ages to start here.

I found the answer to how to solve this here