West Ham started brightly... http://blog.garethhowell.com/ en-us Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:17:28 +0100 Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:17:28 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/05082008181728GHONAG.htm Technology Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/05082008181728GHONAG.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/05082008181728GHONAG.htm Dropbox
Keeping files in sync across multiple platforms is always a challenge. As stated previously, I have two Macs (a MacMini and a Powerbook) and several PCs; including my Thinkpad.

My main sync tool is Chronosync, running on MacMini01. This synchronizes My Documents on the T60 and "Documents" on MacMini01 and Guff-PB on an hourly schedule when the two laptops are connected to the home network. This works fine but is over the top for the many files and folders I wish to synchronize across the various XP based machines.

I have been using Microsoft Office Groove with a file sharing workspace to do some of this, but have now started using Dropbox instead. Dropbox comprises Windows and Mac clients, plus a web service and appears as a folder on each machine that is connected to an account. Any files dragged into the Dropbox folder is synchronized to the other machines also connected to the same account.

The one drawback for me is that the Windows client defaults to putting "My Dropbox" in "My Documents", in which case it will sync all over the place with Chronosync (see here for this). I quickly found a tip on the Dropbox website that showed how to move "My Dropbox": in my case to be a folder on the Desktop.

Evernote
Keeping a common set of notes in sync across the many platforms I use has also been an issue. Where the client is installed, I use my Notes journal. I have now installed Evernote on my Thinkpad and Powerbook to do the same job. I will also do the same on the laptop I use to control my amateur radio station.

FileMagnet
Lastly is FileMagnet, which is a Mac only and iPod Touch application to put files on the iPod Touch and allow them to be opened and read. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/05082008181728GHONAG.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/05082008181728GHONAG.htm?opendocument&comments Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:10:25 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/05082008181025GHON64.htm Technology Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/05082008181025GHON64.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/05082008181025GHON64.htm
For ages I used Shrook on the Mac because it did just that for Mac OS X. Unfortunately I didn't work on the Thinkpad.

I recently re-examined my choice of reader and ended up going back to where I started with RSS readers years ago (or at least when RSS came into use). I went back to using Newsgator.

There are clients for XP (FeedDaemon) and Mac (NetNewsWire) and now NetNewsWire runs on the iPod Touch as well. All this and a Web interface and a service that keeps all clients in sync. Magic! ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/05082008181025GHON64.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/05082008181025GHON64.htm?opendocument&comments Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:33:19 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/04082008133319GHOGQW.htm Scouts Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/04082008133319GHOGQW.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/04082008133319GHOGQW.htm Coetmor Mill bunk house. We had a great week rock climbing, kyaking, hill walking and wild country camping, as well as a day off visiting Dinorwig Power Station and Llechwedd Slate Caverns.

In the early part of the "week" (we went on the Thursday) the weather was so hot we were reconsidering where to wild camp as the site we had chosen had no shelter. Geoff and I have camped at this site by a reservoir up the Conwy Valley before. It's a beautiful location and ideally situated for walks in the Carneddau range, but it is very open.

The weather started to change on the Sunday (before our two-day hike and wild camp) so we decided to stick with the original plan.

After a walk-in in hot weather followed by a (probably illegal) swim in the reservoir, we set up the tents and settled down to an evening meal. As we were finishing, it started to rain. Never mind we thought, it was just past 9PM so about time to go to bed anyway as it would be dark by 21:45.

At about 11:30 PM the wind got up, the rain got heavier and the thunder and lightning arrived. Boy did it rain! I left a billy outside and it was full by the morning, so we had at least 3 inches overnight. We had to spread leaders around the Scouts' tents to re-assure them and provide added weight to stop them blowing away. Nick went over to our patrol about 3AM.

Next morning all was sweetness and light again. We had a good walk in the morning and broke camp in the afternoon. We were back at the Mill by 5 (even though the mini-bus ran out of fuel) ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/04082008133319GHOGQW.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/04082008133319GHOGQW.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:54:58 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008135458GHOH6F.htm Miscellaneous Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008135458GHOH6F.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008135458GHOH6F.htm Admittedly, it's because my mid-80's parents are coming to stay for a few days: but really!!! ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/17072008135458GHOH6F.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008135458GHOH6F.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:26:29 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008122629GHOFF4.htm "lotus Notes" "Lotus Domino" Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008122629GHOFF4.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008122629GHOFF4.htm
I need to keep my Notes contacts (on PC and Mac) in sync with my Gmail, Nokia, LinkedIn and Mac Address books.

The closest I have got is to use Plaxo for all but Notes. I then use Nokia's Communications Suite to keep my Nokia and Notes in sync. It's flaky to say the least.

It's a pity Plaxo (still) doesn't support Notes; despite various rumours to the contrary. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/17072008122629GHOFF4.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008122629GHOFF4.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:58:39 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008115854GHOEVP.htm "lotus Notes" "Lotus Domino" Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008115854GHOEVP.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008115854GHOEVP.htm
Upgrading to the Notes 8.5 public beta 1 has broken the Nokia sync software. I upgraded to the latest version of the Suite, but it fails every time I try to do a two-way sync. I can do a one-way sync in either direction, but not two-way.
Correction
I managed to recover the situation by deleting the synchronisation profile and creating a new one. I also had the choice of a Notes 8 client this time.
Now, if only I could sync Notes with Plaxo... ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/17072008115854GHOEVP.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008115854GHOEVP.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:43:45 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008114400GHOELE.htm "lotus Notes" "Lotus Domino" Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008114400GHOELE.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008114400GHOELE.htm Anyway, I finally forced myself to do it for one specific feature: the ability to stop this crazy auto-population of "recent contacts" in my personal directory.

This so-called "great" feature in the 8 client may be a boon for some, but for those who regularly work in a consultancy environment it is a pain. Let me explain by using an example:

We recently did a large infrastructure upgrade for a Notes client: it was in two stages, upgrading their existing infrastructure to Notes 7 (from 5) and then consolidating a large number of domains into one new domain. (The choice of going to 7 rather than 8 was dictated by their Japanese parent company).

During this project, I and others had accounts on their internal Notes environment and used these accounts for all project related communications. The client ID was segregated into a separate "location", but of course used the same personal directory. Over time, the "recent contacts" became populated with the internal Notes addresses of the people with whom I communicated.

Even though I stopped using this account four months ago, when we finished our main involvement, the internal addresses still appear in the type-ahead when I try to send email to people in the client company: even though of course I need to use the SMTP address now.

There appeared to be nothing I could do about it. I created a new view to display all the recent contacts and then deleted them all. Next day, they're all right back in there.

Notes 8.5 has an option to stop the auto-population of the recent contacts: and it was the first thing I enabled. I then deleted all the recent contacts records (you can do that in 8.5 as well without requiring a special view). So far, they haven't reappeared and all the irrelevant addresses have disappeared from the address type-ahead. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/17072008114400GHOELE.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/17072008114400GHOELE.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:48:56 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/16072008094909GHOCCN.htm Miscellaneous Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/16072008094909GHOCCN.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/16072008094909GHOCCN.htm
To attract this lot we have several feeders with a variety of seeds, nuts, maize, fat balls; plus kitchen scraps and stale bread.

A few weeks ago we were overrun with baby starlings (I counted 25 at one point); eating everything in sight. We had to resort to putting the fatballs in a cage to preserve something for the smaller birds as the starlings strutted their stuff and bullied everything else out of the way. Now we seem to have a host of house sparrows. They move too quickly to count but they empty the feeders in just over a day.

We bulk purchased seed etc, but we are really getting through it right now. A big sack of mixed feeder seed (mainly sunflower) costs about £16 and lasts about six months, so it's not too expenses; and the payback in terms of entertainment makes it all worth while ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/16072008094909GHOCCN.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/16072008094909GHOCCN.htm?opendocument&comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:09:00 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/15072008120908GHOF47.htm Microsoft Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/15072008120908GHOF47.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/15072008120908GHOF47.htm 21Apps gave a very good, if brief, introduction to the above topic at last Thursday's SharePoint User Group UK (SUGUK) meeting. I went along just for the evening, though many had also been playing golf during the day. Must do that next time!

Andrew used his session to talk about using Scrum as the project management methodology. Scrum is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work (see ControlChaos's website for more details).

I tried to comment on Andrew's blog entry, but couldn't get through the security! So I'll acknowledge Andrew's efforts here. Thanks Andrew. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/15072008120908GHOF47.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/15072008120908GHOF47.htm?opendocument&comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:43:23 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/14072008094317GHOC96.htm Miscellaneous Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/14072008094317GHOC96.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/14072008094317GHOC96.htm I knew from previous experience that driving slower didn't have a sever impact on journey time, so I decided to give it a try.

The previous experience came from the time when I was contracting in Lytham St Annes for a couple of years at the start of the nineties. I drove up on Monday morning and back on Friday evening.
To get to Lytham for a normal start, I left home about 4:30 AM. At that time of the morning the roads were pretty deserted up to the Irwel viaduct on the M6 and I could drive at pretty much whatever speed I chose for much of the way. (No speed cameras in those days)

After a few weeks I noticed that my arrival time hardly varied, irrespective of how fast I had been driving, so I decided to run some experiments (got to do something to relieve the boredom). By deliberately driving at a chosen pace I was able to show that the difference in journey time varied by only 10 minutes (on a four hour journey) whether I drove at 60 MPH or 80 MPH. Analysis showed that average speed was largely determined by the occasional period of slow driving (e.g. around the M6/M61 junction) and not by the top speed.

Back to the issue of petrol consumption. In the nineties I didn't really monitor consumption, so I don't know what the effect was; but since I got my current car (SEAT Leon 1.6) in 2006 I have kept a pretty good log of petrol purchases, so I know that my running average up to mid April was 37 MPG. It was at this point that I implemented my own save petrol programme.

• keep the revs below 3000 RPM in all gears and drive as smoothly as possible.

The change has been that I am now averaging 43 MPG: an increase of 16%. Since the beginning of the year, petrol has gone from 97.9 to 119.9 pence per gallon: an increase of 22%. Thus I have offset 73% of the petrol increase.

So, back to the question.
The reason I ask is that when I started my experiment, I was pretty much the slowest car on the road. In my car 3000 RPM in 5th is 64 MPH: i.e. just enough to overtake the lorries. At that speed I rarely overtook another car and never a van! I have noticed over the past week or so that this situation has changed. For example, yesterday we drove along the A14 to Desborough and overtook a lot of cars. Now admittedly it was a Sunday, but even so.. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/14072008094317GHOC96.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/14072008094317GHOC96.htm?opendocument&comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:46:28 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/11072008134631GHOGZ4.htm Systems Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/11072008134631GHOGZ4.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/11072008134631GHOGZ4.htm
From what I read, Vista is a lot better now than it was a year ago. The compatibility tool indicates that all should be well, but...

It would make sense to do a clean install to a new hard disk and then re-install all the applications. Groan :-(

On the other hand, an upgrade may be a better bet as I have dozens, probably hundreds, of application to re-install. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/11072008134631GHOGZ4.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/11072008134631GHOGZ4.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:51:21 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/10072008125119GHOFWN.htm "lotus Notes" "Lotus Domino" Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/10072008125119GHOFWN.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/10072008125119GHOFWN.htm blogging about this new storage saver feature in the Domino 8.5 Beta. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/10072008125119GHOFWN.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/10072008125119GHOFWN.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:05:13 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/03072008130513GHOG7B.htm Lotus Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/03072008130513GHOG7B.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/03072008130513GHOG7B.htm
Tip
If the internet domain name of your Foundations server is (e.g.) astrium.baldock.lincolnburnett.com, then the Start (Domino) server is created as astrium/baldock and the Domino domain is baldock.
i.e. the domino server will take the common name of the Foundations server and use the first element of the domain name for the Organisation and Domain.
Also, the Domino server will place itself in the nominated internet domain, so it must be visible from outside!

So,
be careful how you name your Foundations server before you install the Start add-on.
Make sure the domain name of the Foundations server can be addressed from the Internet: don't choose a non-resolvable domain like internal.loc

Tip
If you add a user with the ID of garethhowell, this becomes their internet mail address (i.e. garethhowell@baldock.lincolnburnett.com)

So.
When you add new users to Foundations, make sure the ID you use is how you wish them to be addressed from outside (e.g. gareth.howell) ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/03072008130513GHOG7B.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/03072008130513GHOG7B.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:24:00 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/03072008122359GHOFDL.htm Lotus Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/03072008122359GHOFDL.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/03072008122359GHOFDL.htm
All I had to do was copy the "pkg" directory to the "autoinstall" share on Astrium, refresh the "Software Update" screen and click "install".

20 minutes later and I now have a functioning Domino server with LDAP, DWA, POP, IMAP and SMTP running. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/03072008122359GHOFDL.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/03072008122359GHOFDL.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 2 Jul 2008 18:49:19 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008184919GHONWD.htm Lotus Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008184919GHONWD.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008184919GHONWD.htm The process is pretty much the same except that the option to perform a memory test has been removed, you now have to explicitly accept a Novell SUSE license and the IBM licenses and the look and feel has been changed in the Web Config.

I've just put the screens in this time so you can see the differences.












]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/02072008184919GHONWD.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008184919GHONWD.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:57:48 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008165748GHOLQP.htm Lotus "Lotus Foundations" Nitix Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008165748GHOLQP.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008165748GHOLQP.htm
It's really a matter of economics. I don't care what IBM says, from the perspective of our Company (elastictime), the Notes business is diminishing in the UK. It may well be growing elsewhere, but not here. We're not going to give up on Notes, but we expect it to deliver s smaller proportion of our business over the coming years. Our core collaboration competencies apply equally to SharePoint and Groove, so it makes sense to build our business in that direction.

So, why Foundations?

A number of reasons, some of which are geeky and others of which are business.
In no particular order:

• It has the potential to be an appliance sale. I love appliances and the business one can build around them. They are perfect for the S end of the SMB space because they don't impact on the (non-existent) IT capabilities in the customer.
• It's Linux based. I've been in love with Unix/Linux since the late 70's when I installed it at a previous employer in place of DEC RSX-11 on a PDP-11. My desire was partially satiated by Apple building OS X on BSD, partially by IBM supporting Linux for Domino, but was waiting for something like Nitix.
• It has neat additional features like Intelligent Backup and NitixVault which address the major problems of having IT in small businesses - disaster recovery.
• It can be supported remotely over a VPN
• It's perfect for SMB

]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/02072008165748GHOLQP.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008165748GHOLQP.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:52:34 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008145234GHOJAE.htm Miscellaneous Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008145234GHOJAE.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008145234GHOJAE.htm Ripoff! ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/02072008145234GHOJAE.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008145234GHOJAE.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:35:53 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008143552GHOHXY.htm Miscellaneous Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008143552GHOHXY.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008143552GHOHXY.htm
To use the free VNC Viewer from RealVNC to access a desktop on Leopard, you need to:

• Make sure the Mac user account has a password set
• Change the VNC Viewer options to use "Full Colour" and
• Disable "render cursor locally"

]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/02072008143552GHOHXY.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008143552GHOHXY.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:53:35 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008095334GHOCFK.htm Lotus Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008095334GHOCFK.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008095334GHOCFK.htm
I've installed it several times now on various pieces of kit, just to get the hang of it. Apart from one occasion it all went smoothly. The one that failed is actually a good indication of the sophistication of the product.

First, the successful process. (I'll cover the failed installation separately)
Tip: You may need to "view" the images full size to see them properly (right-click view_Image in Firefox)

1. Configure the hardware

• You will need a box with an Intel x86 processor, at least one hard disk, at least one Ethernet card and a CD/DVD drive.
• If you have two hard disks you can configure one as an intelligent backup drive (idb) or configure a RAID array. If you have more than two, then one can be the idb drive.
• You need two network adapters if you are going to use the Foundations server as a firewall.

Plug (both of) the network adapters into the same switch, insert the CD and power on.

The server will boot from the CD (provided the hard disk(s) are unformatted and present the boot loader



Select option 2 to run the compatibility tests



This will load Nitix in a special mode and present options to do a basic compatibility check, an advanced check or burn in tests.

As a minimum, run the basic compatibility test. Better still, run the burn-in test for 48 hours.

This screen shows the burn in test status screen


2. Initial Load and configuration of Nitix.
At the moment, I am still using the Nitix Blue precursor to Lotus Foundations Start but I doubt the process is going to be much different.

Disconnect the second network adapter if you have it (the one that will connect to the outside world)

Boot from the CD but this time elect to run Nitix (option 1)

Nitix will boot from the CD, discover all the hardware, assign a DHCP address and be ready for configuration (takes about 1 min). If you want (and you probably will) you can change the IP address to one statically assigned to this server.


That's it as far as dealing with the console on the server, the rest is done through the web config interface from a browser. You need to have JavaScript enabled on the browser.

3. Web Configuration
Open a browser and navigate to the URL given on the server's status screen.



You must enter your root password, domain name and can also enter your activation code at this point. If you choose not to, Nitix will run as a trial for 30 days but won't run the software updater.  



You will then be presented with the  Web Config screen.



This screen shows the current status of the server and any outstanding warnings.

Notice that you are warned that you are running under a TRIAL license and that your are booting from the CD

Adjacent to the "Disk Status" there is a warning  that your main disk is not configured. You have the options to add both drives (I have two installed in this example) as a RAID-1 array or have one as the main disk and one as an idb drive. Assuming you have installed reasonably large disks then I would advise choosing to use the second drive as an idb. A better option still is to install three drives, use the first two as a RAID and have the third as your idb drive. I'll blog about using idb and hot swappable drives separately.

To configure the disks, simply click on the appropriate link. Nitix will then configure the disks and install itself to the main disk. You can then shutdown and remove the CD. Nitix will then startup from the installed image.

At the end of this, you have a basic Nitix server installed and running.

I'll cover installing Nitix Blue separately. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/02072008095334GHOCFK.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008095334GHOCFK.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:01:00 +0100 http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008104849GHODJ5.htm Music Gareth Howell http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008104849GHODJ5.htm?opendocument&comments http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008104849GHODJ5.htm
This concert was primarily a collection of greatest hits; though there were a few tracks from the upcoming "That Lucky Old Sun" which we saw performed at the Festival Hall last year and which is released on CD in September.
The band was brilliant, as ever, with Jeffrey Foskett delivering mind tingling falsetto vocals.

The sound was OK; not as good as the Festival Hall in my opinion, but as a good as it gets here with a bit of muffling evident; particularly in the percussion section. Nelson Bragg was doing his best, but we just couldn't hear him properly. It was most notable on "Heroes and Villains" where Bragg is continually changing instruments. In previous , you could hear every one of his contributions clearly; not last night unfortunately.

Apart from that, and a screw up by the band in the middle of "Heroes and Villains" it was an excellent evening and I came away with the usual sense of wonder at the brilliance of The Man. Brian played keyboards and bass and led the vocals.

The more I hear pieces from "That Luck Old Sun" the more I am looking forward to getting my hands (and ears) on it. ]]> http://blog.garethhowell.com/dxcomments/02072008104849GHODJ5.htm http://blog.garethhowell.com/dx/02072008104849GHODJ5.htm?opendocument&comments