online calendar with RSS

One of the many projects I have on the back burner (waiting for enthusiasm) is an online calendar/agrigator.

http://www.spongecell.com is a good calendar (with lots of ajax goodness) and a nice simple plain text way of adding appointments.

Capture the path of the executing batchfile

I have a batch file for doing some automated deployment magic. It calls other batch files via relative paths. The problem with this is that it doesn't work if you call the batch file from a different directory.

Once I started looking I came across this litte gem %~dp0.

%0 is the name of the batch file.
~dp gives you the drive and path of the specified argument.

You can then get your batch file to run from its own directory as follows...

pushd %~dp0
... do batch file stuff
popd

nice css bargraphs

See some nice CSS bar graphs here

Nice java script visual effect

Here is a nice 'show the big version of a pic' effect for web apps.

Lego has come of age

Check out the new lego Mindstorm products. Robots that can sence colour, movement, noise, tone, pitch, ultrasound, stepping motors with 360 position sensors... All with bluetooth control.

This is the first time I have felt that I was born a generation too early :) Lego is officially a big boys toy.