Author Archives: James McParlane

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About James McParlane

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

IE7 And Office Outlook Incompatible with McAffe Virus Scan Buffer Overflow Detection

Posted on October 26, 2006 by James McParlane

If you have installed the latest IE7 and use Outlook and McAffe Virus Scan, you may have noticed your Outlook mail client locking up quite often. Seems that during normal operation IE7 is throwing buffer overflows, or doing something that looks like … Continue reading →

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Scrybe – Yet Another Calendar Application – But Its A Very Good Looking One

Posted on October 25, 2006 by James McParlane

http://www.iscrybe.com/cal/index.html The video alone is worth watching just to get an idea of what its possible to do in a browser nowadays. I was hoping to be first to launch something with the “work offline now, sync to server later” … Continue reading →

Posted in AJAX, Web2.0 | 2 Comments

General News And IE7

Posted on October 25, 2006 by James McParlane

I should start up developing and blogging again now. My grandmother passed away a few weeks ago and my Mother and her partner have been visiting for the last two weeks so I’ve not really had a chance to do … Continue reading →

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The US Declares War On Australia

Posted on October 24, 2006 by James McParlane

By banning Vegemite as “Unnatural“. Seriously folks – after stealing our Ugg-boots and sending us Don Lane, this is the last straw.

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A Brief History Of Parsing

Posted on October 4, 2006 by James McParlane

  The primary goal a parser is to organize a sequence of tokens based on the rules of a formal language. As the parser accepts a sequence of tokens, it determines, based on this information, when the grammar’s respective rules … Continue reading →

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Sydney Phone Photo Blogging #3 – Everything

Posted on September 30, 2006 by James McParlane

A random sampling from my phone over the last six months. Caution – Contains traces of roadkill. Shadow Bitumen Angel Old Poster The perfect product for when a sordid affair between a mechanic and journalist goes horribly wrong…   Naked Car … Continue reading →

Posted in Coolhunting, Just Kidding, Meta-Narrative, Music & Art | 2 Comments

MetaWrap TimeConverter, Build 7

Posted on September 26, 2006 by James McParlane

New Version Is Avialable Click Here for the latest version. Here (download) is the latest version (Build 7) of the MetaWrap time converter which replaces the previous version (Build 6) This build fixes some reported bugs in the timezone data. … Continue reading →

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NetWork Adapters I Have Known And Loved

Posted on September 20, 2006 by James McParlane

While looking for USB 802.11 hardware for Linux with some particular features I did a lot of hardware hunting.              

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externalInterface Under FlashPlayer 9 Is Evil – The White Screen Of Death

Posted on September 13, 2006 by James McParlane

In short – externalInterface is the work of the devil. There are others that have a low opinion of it. “In general, whoever coded ExternalInterface should be fired.” “ExternalInterface bug (Firefox)” “ExternalInterface Bug in Flash Player 9“ “The official Adobe … Continue reading →

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Movietally.com – A del.icio.us For Movies

Posted on August 16, 2006 by James McParlane

I just got sent a PR style blurb about this site. Wow – targeted PR marketing that didn’t try to sell me willy tablets – someone thinks I’m influential! I’m not going to cut and paste the marketroid slab of text they sent … Continue reading →

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