How do you get to have an icon look consistent to Microsoft when you
can’t use their icons? Seems that there are quite a few people out there
having the same issue…I guess I’ll just have to sharpen up my GIMP
skills even more! 
Microsoft Icon Copyright? June 20, 2005
The countryside… June 20, 2005
…is so peaceful and quiet. We went down the Northern Natal, and the
one night out to a friend’s farm, we stopped halfway back in the open
fields. It was amazing. At first the silence is kind of overwhelming in
the sense that it just freaks you out, and then it starts taking over
and you start to get this incredible feeling of peace and quiet…you
have to experience it for yourself though!
Anyhow, back in the city today, work work…!
The countryside… June 20, 2005
…is so peaceful and quiet. We went down the Northern Natal, and the
one night out to a friend’s farm, we stopped halfway back in the open
fields. It was amazing. At first the silence is kind of overwhelming in
the sense that it just freaks you out, and then it starts taking over
and you start to get this incredible feeling of peace and quiet…you
have to experience it for yourself though!
Anyhow, back in the city today, work work…!
GIMP is cooL! June 15, 2005
I think I’m actually starting to get the hang of image creating and editing, and its FUN!! check out GIMP’s website at http://www.gimp.org and the manual aswell, very important and useful : http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/.
Reason I mention this, been working with it all week creating icons, images and other artwork for our latest product at work…and I think its actually pretty neat! But, I crave for a little coding again, enuff of this graphics stuff for now…HERE I COME CODE!
XPBurn component issue… June 14, 2005
Not been posting for a while, been busy busy busy! Currently working on a new project, thing is, I now have to build in CD burning capabilities, which it seems is turning to be more challenging than I thought. I’m busy experimenting with the XPBurn component provided by Microsoft, which is simple, but it does the job…unfortunately, this library is very basic and as it turns out, buggy…no comment 
This is VB.Net code. When I step through the code it seems to get stuck on the
fDataDiscWriter.AddData(fRootStorage, 1);
statement in RecordDiscThread() method of XPBurn.cs:
private void RecordDiscThread()
{
try
{
fDiscMaster.Open();
AddProgressEvents();
fDiscMaster.SetActiveDiscRecorder(fActiveRecorder); ‘<————- HERE PROBLEM
CreateIStorage();
fDataDiscWriter.AddData(fRootStorage, 1);
fDiscMaster.RecordDisc(fSimulate, fEjectAfterBurn);
DeleteIStorage();
fDiscMaster.Close();
fIsBurning = false;
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
fDiscMaster.Close();
throw new XPBurnException(@ex.ToString());
}
}
More investigation is needed…unless someone has a solution ?
