It's a new month so here's a new post.

I have been over-indulging a lot of late. Not only did Firefox 3 come out, but also OpenSuSE 11! In general it's very cool, although I did have a couple of problems with the compiz-fusion desktop, so I just got rid of it for now. I'll give it a try again later when it's had a bit more time. Likewise KDE 4.

I've been spending a lot of time with .NET recently too. I'm developing a prototype application to store an evidence base for the whole county. It's pretty cool so far, although I did run in to some weird problems with maintaining the state of checkboxes within a gridview control. No matter what I tried, it just wouldn't remember the states. After much investigation I discovered that it was maintaining the state, but something else was unchecking the boxes in a later event. So instead of setting the value of the checkboxes in the onpageindexchanging event I put it in the ondatabound event and hey presto! it worked fine.

It's looking increasingly more likely that I'm going to be staying in the job over the course of my degree too. That would be absolutely awesome and beats the hell out of a part time job in a pub! :)