Hull Fair 2010

We went to Hull Fair tonight. I only ever go on the Big Wheel, and that is to take photographs. I’ve no head for heights, but if I view everything through the camera viewfinder I seem to do OK.  This new little lens seems to be pin sharp too, which is nice.

If you are a student at Hull and you haven’t been to Hull Fair you are missing out. It is huge, well managed and pretty good value if you get there for happy hour.

Yellow Book Download Frenzy

This lunchtime I happened to take a look at the number of hits that I was getting on my blog. I have a fair idea of what constitutes normal traffic and what was happening was not normal. Oh no. I seemed to have had 12,000 hits. It seems that for some reason everybody was downloading my C# Yellow Book. I asked around on Twitter and I think I’ve traced it to a post on the MSDN Flash Newsletter. Thanks for your help folks. As it stands at the moment I’ve had 20,000 downloads, which is quite a lot.

I hope you all like it.

Windows Phone 7 to go

Well, it’s official. Microsoft have made a new Mobile phone. In fact they’ve made several. Probably more than 7. But I digress.

The launch event today sounded fun, and things are going to be even more fun next week. Now I freely admit I love my iphone. And it was with a twinge of regret that I popped the sim out of it and into my Windows Phone a while back. But I don’t really regret the move over.

I find the Windows Phone easier to navigate and it does all I want, including run my programs.  I’m presently wondering if I’ll need to get up early on the 21st when everything launches to get my Windows Phone of choice, the HTC HD7. We shall see.

Windows Live Writer 2011

I downloaded an update to Windows Live 2011 today. Nothing like living in the future.

Anyhoo, it contains an update to one of my favourite programs, Windows Live Writer, which is what I use to write these hallowed pages. I’ve not noticed anything particularly new in the way of features, although it does look rather spiffy. Worth a look I reckon.

I also got the new Messenger client, which also looks quite good.

Saturday Open Day

These are some of the audience. The other photograph is on Flickr too, just click the picture to find your way there.

Just had a great University Open Day (I enjoyed myself, hope the people that came along did too). We had a massive turn out and the brand shiny new Lecture Theatre was packed. I saw several people on the campus clutching their C# Yellow Books (even though the cover is not as yellow as I would have liked). I promised to put a bunch of links up on my blog that I showed at the end of the presentation. Here they are:

• www.dcs.hull.ac.uk - Department Web Pages
• www.hull.ac.uk - University Web Site
• www.wherewouldyouthink.com - our admissions site
• www.freeside.co.uk - student cluster
• www.hive.hull.ac.uk - Hive Virtual Environment
• www.robmiles.com - you need to ask?