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United won over Becks last night and I forgot to watch! Arrrggh. Top work by Man U though. Even better that Real got knocked out too

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Thursday, March 11, 2010

Just found out Corey Haim died. What a shame. He will forever live in the 80's though...

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Thursday, March 11, 2010

@Gregory_Ryan @PCDeville @Plugga73 I'm happy with whatever. If we put in $5 each per round that is $20 a week to bet with?

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Can't believe we actually came last in the quiz night. And there was like 40 teams. I really need to work on my general knowledge

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

People sometimes think I can't stoop any lower in my taste in music. Well I just bought the Ke$ha album...

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

@Gregory_Ryan Just waiting for odds to come up on Centrebet. Then I'll post my biggest bet ever for you! Gonna love that rollercoaster ride!

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

At a quiz night. Bon jovi really rocks ass. I wish I met him

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Wildcats WILL win deciding gf game this Friday. I'm betting the bank on it. $300.

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Nominations out today for most unloyal west Australians . Apparently @Gregory_Ryan came in as favourite to win award...

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Big game for Wildcats Friday in gf decider. @Gregory_Ryan already written them off - what a joke!

Clinton Cherry using Twitter on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Deleting multiple items at once in a SharePoint List

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Caching of SharePoint Timer Jobs

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Adding Spell Checker to custom SharePoint Pages

Friday, July 17, 2009

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If you have been doing SharePoint development for some time it is more than likely that you have developed your fair share of custom pages and custom controls/webparts for MOSS 2007. Where possible I try and leverage the existing SharePoint controls (such as the People Picker) to use on my pages as Microsoft has already done all the work developing these controls. One aspect I had never been able to get going until recently though was adding a spell checker control to my pages. I have just discovered that this is alot easier than I thought.

To add the out of the box spell checker all you need to do is:
1. Make sure you have the right page directive on the page you are adding the control to

<%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>

2. To the head of your page, add the following controls, which will give you the javascript required for the spell checker to run:

<SharePoint:ScriptLink ID="ScriptLink1" Language="javascript" Name="core.js" runat="server" />
<SharePoint:ScriptLink ID="ScriptLink2" Language="javascript" Name="bform.js" runat="server" />
<SharePoint:ScriptLink ID="ScriptLink3" Language="javascript" Name="SpellCheckEntirePage.js" runat="server" />

3. Add the following block of javascript code to your page:

4. Now all you need to do is create a link or a button which starts the spell checker. to this you just need to add the onclick javascript method 'doSpellCheck()'

<a class="ms-toolbar" href="javascript:doSpellCheck()">Spelling...</a>

As a result of using this on click event, SharePoint will invoke a popup control which will enable your users to run a spell check against any input control that is on your page. Of course there might be certain controls on your page that you do not want to spell check against (such as People Pickers!) so all you need to do is add the attribute excludeFromSpellCheck="true" to any control that should not be spell checked:

<asp:TextBox ID="txtDontSpellCheck" runat="server" CssClass="ms-long" excludeFromSpellCheck="true"></asp:TextBox>

All in all, for a few lines of code, this really adds a heck of a lot of power and useability to your custom SharePoint pages!

Generating SQL Scripts for Data

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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Validating that a checkbox has been selected

Friday, June 05, 2009

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Invalid Security Validation in SharePoint code

Thursday, April 23, 2009

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Launching an application from a link in SharePoint

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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Presentation on SharePoint Search and Longitude

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

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Saving files in ItemUpdated for a SharePoint List

Friday, January 16, 2009

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Clinton added some photos to Facebook on 11/4/2008

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New stuff for ClintonCherry.com

Friday, October 17, 2008

Because I rarely get an opportunity to edit my website I have decided to integrate some other cool features into my website. Now as a part of the website any updates that I do on Flickr, Facebook or on the other blogs that I write (boring nerd stuff mainly) will appear here on ClintonCherry.com. This way you will get a much more accurate idea of what I am up to (rather than an update every 6 months...)

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Display content type in SharePoint search results

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

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A query that came through to me this week was could we display the content type for an item in the search results? …and the answer of course was yes. I wrote a little function to drop into the XSL to do this, which isn’t that pretty, but does work. Basically this query works by referencing each of the known SharePoint Content Types and giving them a friendly name.

This can easily be implemented into the search results web part in MOSS.

As such my (not so short) template is:

<xsl:template name="GetContentType">
    <xsl:param name="SharePointContentType"></xsl:param>
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_Web')">Site</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_850')">Page Library</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_850')">Page</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_DocumentLibrary')">Document Library</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_DocumentLibrary')">Document Library Items</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_Links')">Links List</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_Links')">Links List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_Tasks')">Tasks List</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_Tasks')">Tasks List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_Events')">Events List</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_Events')">Events List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_Announcements')">Announcements List</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_Announcements')">Announcements List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_Contacts')">Contacts List</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_Contacts')">Contacts List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_DiscussionBoard')">Discussion List</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_DiscussionBoard')">Discussion List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_IssueTracking')">Issue Tracking List</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_IssueTracking')">Issue Tracking List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_GanttTasks')">Project Tasks List</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_GanttTasks')">Project Tasks List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_Survey')">Survey List</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_Survey')">Survey List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_PictureLibrary')">Picture Library</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_PictureLibrary')">Picture Library Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_WebPageLibrary')">Web Page Library</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_WebPageLibrary')">Web Page Library Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List_XMLForm')">Form Library</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem_XMLForm')">Form Library Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_ListItem')">Custom List Item</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'STS_List')">Custom List</xsl:when>            
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'urn:content-class:SPSSearchQuery')">Search Query</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'urn:content-class:SPSListing:News')">News Listing</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'urn:content-class:SPSPeople')">People</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'urn:content-class:SPSCategory')">Category</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'urn:content-class:SPSListing')">Listing</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'urn:content-class:SPSPersonListing')">Person Listing</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'urn:content-class:SPSTextListing')">Text Listing</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'urn:content-class:SPSSiteListing')">Site Listing</xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="contains($SharePointContentType,'urn:content-class:SPSSiteRegistry')">Site Registry Listing</xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            Webpage (<xsl:value-of select="$SharePointContentType"/>)
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Then to reference this in your search results simply call this template and pass in the variable ‘contentclass’ which appears on all search result pages:

<xsl:call-template name="GetContentType">
     <xsl:with-param name="SharePointContentType" select="contentclass"/>
</xsl:call-template>

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XSLT to hide and show a summary

Friday, September 26, 2008

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I am (still) do heaps of work in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 search which means I am (still) do heaps of work in XSL. An interesting task I had this week was to show and hide a body of text - however a brief summary of the text needed to be shown first, with the capability to expand the text to see more information. As there was no summary text per se, this meant the actual text needed to be shown partially, and when a link to show more is clicked, show it in it's entirety. Also, as part of keeping this all looking professional, the summary should not have any words chopped off.

Basically for the javascript show/hide we already had an existing bit of script I used, however if you need to try this out I thought I'd share this anyway:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function toggleLayer( whichLayer )
    {  
        var elem, vis;  
        if (document.getElementById) // this is the way the standards work
            elem = document.getElementById( whichLayer );  
        else if( document.all ) // this is the way old msie versions work
            elem = document.all[whichLayer];  
        else if( document.layers ) // this is the way nn4 works 
            elem = document.layers[whichLayer]; 
        vis = elem.style;          
        // if the style.display value is blank we try to figure it out here
        if(vis.display==''&&elem.offsetWidth!=undefined&&elem.offsetHeight!=undefined) 
            vis.display = (elem.offsetWidth!=0&&elem.offsetHeight!=0)?'block':'none';             
        vis.display = (vis.display==''||vis.display=='block')?'none':'block';
    }
</script>

In order to specify the number of characters I was trimming initially, I added this as a simple XSL parameter to my XSL page ie:

<xsl:param name="AbstractSummaryLength">400</xsl:param>

Next I created an XSL method called 'trim' which basically works by recursively calling itself to continue to trim until it reaches a space, and hence the end of a word.

 <xsl:template name="trim">
    <xsl:param name="in"/>
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="substring($in, string-length($in), 1)=' '">
        <xsl:value-of select="$in"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:call-template name="trim">
          <xsl:with-param name="in"
              select="substring($in, 1, string-length($in)-1)"/>
        </xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

In order to get the summary of text (for a specified length) the substring method in XSL is great (assuming the field with our data is called 'abstract').

<xsl:variable name="summaryabstract" select="substring($abstract, 1, $AbstractSummaryLength)"/>

We can then pass this value to the trim method to ensure we get an entire word at the end of the summary:

<xsl:variable name="summaryabstracttrimmed">
  <xsl:call-template name="trim">
    <xsl:with-param name="in" select="$summaryabstract"/>
  </xsl:call-template>                
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="abstractstartposition" select="string-length($summaryabstracttrimmed)"/>

Finally, we just put together our variables and HTML, and we have a nice little piece of code to show and hide our full summary:

<!--Start of abstract-->
<div>
  <xsl:attribute name="id">AbstractSummary<xsl:value-of select="id"/></xsl:attribute>

  <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$summaryabstracttrimmed"/>

  [<a title="Show Abstract">
    <xsl:attribute name="href">
      javascript:toggleLayer('Abstract<xsl:value-of select="id"/>');
      javascript:toggleLayer('AbstractSummary<xsl:value-of select="id"/>');
    </xsl:attribute>more...</a>]  
 </div>             
<div style="display:none">
  <xsl:attribute name="id">Abstract<xsl:value-of select="id"/></xsl:attribute>
  
  <!-- Remainder of abstract-->
  <!--<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="substring($abstract, $abstractstartposition)"/>-->
  
  <!-- Full abstract-->
  <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$abstract"/>

   [<a title="Hide Abstract">
     <xsl:attribute name="href">
      javascript:toggleLayer('Abstract<xsl:value-of select="id"/>');
       javascript:toggleLayer('AbstractSummary<xsl:value-of select="id"/>');
     </xsl:attribute>Hide</a>]
</div>
</xsl:if>

Caching data for the BDC

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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Calculated Fields

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

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Web Part Page Maintenance

Friday, July 04, 2008

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Creating clones of SharePoint VPC images (renaming SharePoint instances)

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

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I am sure that many of you use VPC images or similar for your development environments, and often the requirement will arise to create a new image based on an existing image - for a new developer or a new project or for a variety of other reasons. When developing with SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) and having this on your development environment, this can cause some serious headaches - mainly because you have to give the new image a new name (unless it is not on the same network) and as soon as you rename a SharePoint server it throws a hissy fit (as does SQL Server if this is also on your development environment).

Anyway, I thought I'd share the steps that I go through when duplicated a SharePoint image (and these are pretty much the same steps as renaming an image should this be what you needed to do.

Go to the Sharepoint Central Administration > Operations > Services on Server and stop "Windows SharePoint Services Search"
Rename your server, however wait until step 5 until you restart it
If you have MS SQL Server installed, you will also need to rename this. Go to "SQL Server Management Studio" and execute the following script

EXEC sp_dropserver '<old_name>'
GO
EXEC sp_addserver '<new_name>', 'local'
Update SharePoint references of the new name by calling the script:
stsadm -o renameserver -oldservername <old server name> -newservername <new server name>
Restart your PC
If you try to open Central Administration after restarting PC it will try to open the site with the old server name. To recreate your Central Administration site for the new server name, call the following command using a port number for the new location of central admin:
psconfig -cmd adminvs -provision -port 12345 -windowsauthprovider onlyusentlm
Restart IIS and try to open your Central Admin site. It should successfully open your site with new server name
Go to the "Application Management" and remove websites that reference the old machine name
If you already have a search index drop this, and rebuild it

Now you should have a nicely renamed machine. You may find you need to create your site collections for SSP and My Sites, but this shouldn't be too hard.

UPDATE: Today I tried a different method of doing this which also works. I got the steps from a post on the SharePoint University site: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mirjam/archive/2007/08/06/renaming-a-moss-server.aspx

Here are the steps:

Change each alternate access mapping for your MOSS/WSS deployment in Central Administration:

Open Central Administration, "Operations" Tab, "Alternate access mappings" link
Modify each mapping item to reflect your newly chosen server name

Use stsadm.exe to invoke the "renameserver" command option:

Open a command prompt window
cd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN"
stsadm -o renameserver -newservername <newname> -oldservername <oldname>

Rename your Server via Change Name Operation in Windows Server 2003:

Start Menu | Control Panel | System, "Computer Name" tab, "Change" button.
Input your new server name

Reboot the server NOW.

After reboot, open command prompt

cd C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN
stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin <domainuser> -password <password>
iisreset /noforce

Check all application pool identities in IIS, update where the old machine name is still there.

If you already have a search index drop this, and rebuild it

Updating SharePoint 2007 web.config programmatically

Thursday, June 26, 2008

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Style up your 'Best Bets' results in SharePoint (pt 2)

Friday, June 06, 2008

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Separate SMTP Server for SharePoint email enabled lists

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

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What is Clinton up to?

Friday, May 23, 2008

For anyone who randomly visits this site, you will notice that it no longer gets updated with the frequency it used to. In a bid to make this site more up to date with what I am up to, I am looking to start to get information from a number of sources and publish my activities also using this.

One such application I use is Twitter, which enables me to send updates via the web or SMS as to what I am doing (my thoughts, activities, ponderings etc) and as such you will notice to the left there is a section 'My Twitterings', which will change all the time as I update Twitter.

In the future I'd like to see my updates to photo albums, Facebook or other applications also appear on here, as well of course as still updating my diary entries here!

Hiding custom lists from the "create" page in SharePoint

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

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Betting week 5

Friday, April 25, 2008

Well to start with, last week didn't end up so good. A draw in the AFL and Man U going down in an upset meant for the first time I lost money on a weekend, and ended up $12 down for the weekend. I will post results later...

Moving forward I have put a stack of bets on this weekend!

IN the AFL at $4.85 I have $5 on Freo. At $4 I have $5 on West Coast. And Saints at $2.30 was too good a bargain to pass up for $5. I have also perserveered and put $3 on Buddy to kick the most goals at $4.25, while I put my 4 pick on Coll-Geel-Adel-WC for $2 at 12.5 to 1.

A huge week in the premier league so have put some money down there. I have $5 on the Man U Chelsea draw at $3.20, for the same odds I have $5 on Middlesborough for a win over Sunderland and another $5 on Liverpool at $2.45. I whacked $10 on Arsenal at $1.27 which should be a breeze, and finally put $3 on Ronaldo to be the first scorer in the blockbuster (at 6/1) as well as $5 that there will be at least 3 goals at for odds of 2.3/1!

JavaScript: Search and replace query string values

Thursday, April 24, 2008

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Tips for the weekend starting April 17

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Well I am a bit late to submit my bets for the week, but early on the bets I have placed have already gone well. Chelsea won on Thursday night (which I had $10 on at 2/1) and then last night with the start of the IPL I had $10 on the Knight Riders (at $1.72) which also came in.

So to the Premier League and Man U at $1.60 seem like a good bet for this weekend for $10, and I have put another $10 on Arsenal at a low $1.31.

To the AFL and for my pick 4 I have gone for Saints, Geelong, Freo and Hawks which was paying a healthy $8.10 (so I have $3 there) and another $1 on Judd to get the most possessions at $13. Finally I have put $10 on the Eagles who are paying $2.17 at home against a team that has not won a game yet!

Betting results week 4

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Well another week down, and another week up. Though only made $10 this week, so wasn't as lucrative as of late. Probably didn't help that I had a couple of late betting splurges. I put $5 on Big Bad Barry to get 6 weeks or less at $1.90 which didn't come in (but I'm not upset about that. Chelsea also didn't come in, but likewise I am happy to lose money on them as that opens the door for Chelsea.

On the plus I put $2 on Richmond at 5.5/1 which brought me in a nice $11. Plus my four pick of favourites came in, along with Man United and Man City.

Results

Bet: $40
Won: $50
Net: +$10
Net Total: +$110

Chelsea are playing tonight so have another $10 on them at $2.10 which isn't too bad and will be part of next weekends winnings should they come in.

Predictions - Week 4

Friday, April 11, 2008

Its pretty lopsided in the AFL betting and no real stand out bets for me. For my four pick I have gone WB-Kang-Geel-WC at $11.80 for $3 and WB-Kang-Geel-Syd at $3.30 for $5 - hopefully if the first three can get in, then I have hedged my bets on the West Coast game... Though I don't hold high hopes for the Coasters but with big odds I have still put $5 on WCE at $4.35 as I still don't think Swans are that great either. Finally I have put 2 bucks on Buddy to kick the most goals for the round (for a bit of fun) as that is paying $6.

Updated: Have also decided to plunge a huge $3 on Essendon tonight at $3.30 as I wouldn't make Friday nights viewing a little more exciting. And with Embley out of the Eagles, I now regret any betting to do with the WCE, so I would NOT recommend betting on them.

In the premier league Man United are back at home against Arsenal, though I can't see them dropping another game so am backing $10 on them at $1.90. Chelsea are $1.25 against Wigan, but its still worth putting $10 on them as that should be a gimme. Finally I think $3.45 isn't a bad price for Man City against an in form Sunderland, so am putting $5 there.

Sportsbet Betting Results week 3

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Another week down and another week up in terms of betting.
I ended up topping up my bet on Melbourne to include another $5 on Geelong by 1-39 which was paying $4.25 and a $5 bet on Port Adelaide to win. With Melbourne losing by less than 39 points, it meant I ended up getting over $60 back on this game, which made up well and truly for my other AFL losses.

In terms of the premier league Chelsea brought me in some cash, and luckily I didn't back Man United too strongly after they drew their game.

So at the end of the weekend I still ended about $20 up.

Bet: $50
Won: $70> Net: +$20> Total to date: +$100>

Predictions for weekend 5/6 April

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Well this week all the talk about betting should be around Melbourne Vs Geelong. Currently they are giving 21/1 odds on Melbourne. For even money they are giving Geelong a 70 point head start. These odds are just too good to be true, so I have put a couple of bucks on the win (cause this really isn't going to happen), but have put down $20 on the 70 point head start, as that is a BIG ask for Geelong.

In other footy betting I am backing $10 on West Coast at 2/1, while my 4 pick for the week is for StK-Haw-Freo-Ess at $6.40.

Finally in the premier league I have put $7 on Chelsea for a win at a respectable $1.75, and with my final $1 for the week have put it down for Man United to win 2-1 against Middlesborough at 8/1.

Now I'll wait and see on the early results to see if I back Chelsea in with some more money...

SportsBet Week 2 results

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Week 2, and had some mixed fortunes. The Premier league was alot kinder than the AFL, but still endup up. As all my betting was over by Sunday, I also ended up putting on a few more bets, which more or less ended up cancelling each other out. I had a double on Geelong and Richmond at $2.73 for $5 bet which didn't come in after a dissappointing Richmond, though I did put $20 on Chelsea at $1.31 to win which covered the earlier bet after they came in (just).

So in the end, I am now up a total of $79 with a summary of the weekends bets below...

Week 2 results

Bet: $115
Won: $130 (+$60 from Sportsbet loan)
Net result: +$15
Total to date: +$80

Predictions for weekend 29/30 March

Friday, March 28, 2008

With a tough week in the AFL, this week my attention turned to the premier league. I believe while Arsenal have been in a form slump, $1.73 for an Arsenal win is a good buy, so have wagered $15 on them for a win. From signing up to SportsBet, I also have a 'free' $60 bet to use, so have decided to use this to bet on Manchester United at home. They have been in sparkling touch, and whilst it is only paying $1.33, I'd say its pretty close to a sure thing.

In the AFL with my 'Pick 4' I have decided to wager it on Bris-WB-WC-StK. It is paying $6.15 which isn't too bad, but as I'm not oozing confidence, I have decided to just put the $5 on this bet. Finally I have put a few head to head bets - $5 on Hawks at 2/1 seemed a pretty good bet, as did 2/1 Line bet for Melbourne with a +14 point start against the bulldogs. And finally I put a $5 on West Coast v Adelaide to be within 15 points of each other.

Fingers crossed for the weekend...

Summary

Arsenal to beat Bolton $15
Man U to beat Aston Villa $60FB
Bris-WB-WC-SK $5
Hawks to beat Dockers $5
Melbourne to win, or lose by less than 14 $5
WCE or Adelaide to win by 15 or less $5

Gamblor

Monday, March 24, 2008

Well after a huge hiatus from writing on this blog I have decided to post again. This time its about my latest hobby... betting.

Judd

Last week I decided it was a smart move to bet $50 on Judd for the Brownlow at 13/1 - thinking he was fully fit and would romp it in (and also now that the Eagles have lost him, the least I should be able to do is benefit financially be the loss). So I managed to persuade Claire to go to the TAB for me and put the bet down. Having watched him on Thursday night, I think he is miles away from the fitness levels I expected from him, and as such he is probably already offering better odds this week. That bet will also prove to be a waste of $50 one would think... HOWEVER what this bet did to was give me the bug. The gambling bug.

Life as a gambler begins

Having enjoyed my little wager and the excitement of it all (even if that first bet will take 22 rounds before I know any more) I decided why not spice up my life with a bit of weekly gambling on all things sport. And so I decided to get an online account with Sportsbet.

Week 1 bet

So for my first bet I decided to go on an AFL multi bet. What seemed like the best combo to me was West Coast, Hawks, Bombers and Bulldogs. I thought the bulldogs should fire for Brad Johnsons 300th, Bombers looked great in the preseason, Demons are woeful so the Hawks had the bye, and I have to back the Eagles. The combo was paying 8.5/1 so I put $10 down and waited to see what would happen.

As it happened I was damn lucky with the Bulldogs, the Eagles weren't that convincing, but the Hawks were great so coming into Monday I was sitting pretty with 3 out 3 to that point. Getting a little nervous about the bombers I ended up hedging my bets and placed $15 on the Kangaroos at $1.75. That way I couldn't lose on my first betting weekend. In the end though I needn't have worried as Bombers won pretty comfortabley in the end as did I on my first weekend.

The results

Bet $25
Won $85
Net +$65

So with a decent win on my first week, I'm already excited for next weeks bet... stay tuned!

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The Shiny Red Mustang

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Well it amazed me. I am sure it also amazed Claire. And I'm sure it amazes pretty much everyone else, but the other day Claire and I reached 2 years in our relationship. Pretty decent stint really. (It also amazes me that I am updating this web site again - finally!)

So anyway for our anniversary Claire got me a fantastic ring. For her - I got totally smashed the day before at a wine tasting event, starting at 10am, and almost didn't get her a present. Lucky I had already organized another treat for her up my arm.

As a surprise, I managed to organize a full picnic to take Claire out (not bad Clinton, not bad). Better still I arranged for a red convertible Mustang to pick us up. And somehow managed to keep it all a secret. (Though in retrospect this wasn't easy nor was it overly fun, as Claire was pretty much ready to kill me up until midday - when the Mustang finally arrived - as she thought I had all but forgot about the anniversary).

So it was great to see the surprised look on Claire's face when we went downstairs and the Mustang was finally there, waiting to take us out for the afternoon. And I was able to avert major damage control. Michael, our chauffeur for the afternoon, then took us off to the Swan Valley for an afternoon of wine tasting's.

It was awesome fun to be out in a convertible again (I don't think I have been in one since the good old days when I had my Suzuki Sierra), with the wind blowing through my (well no) hair. We had some classic Dean Martin to set the mood, and the afternoon flew by, with the help of some great wines.

At the end of the time in the Mustang, Michael dropped us off at Kings Park for our picnic, though sadly the weather turned pretty average. So instead we opted for walking home and having a picnic on the lounge floor, but at least we managed to have a great arvo out in the Mustang.

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

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A Knights Tale

Friday, December 21, 2001 8:36:00 AM (W. Australia Standard Time, UTC+08:00)

knights tale If you want to know what this movie is about then check out my review here, although don't expect too much cause this review is pretty short and crap.

Anyway I recently bought the DVD from the States and was unpleasantly surprised to find the DVD has RCE encoding. For everyone out there who's not a nerd this basically means a crappy protection they've decided to start putting on DVD's to stop people importing from America etc. Anyway I went to the trusty old net, and have since found ways to get around this and watch movies. But to you faggots who create these RCE disks you suck.

Well on watching the movie again, I was wrapped and really enjoyed the movie second time round. I didn't watch it with headphones (sorry Jeans) but on the whole the sound was cool, except when dad was vacuuming which was highly annoying. The image quality is also kewl and really no worries with the layer change.

The DVD has heaps of extra features like Robbie Williams filmclip, deleted scenes with commentary (fairly boring), a HBO behind the scenes special (average), the usual other crap like trailers etc, and most annoyingly 11 featurettes. Now most people would say "Kewl, 11 Documentaries", well the featurettes are pretty cool, but for the fact they're each about 4 minutes in length. If only the world had a little intelligence, someone may have put all 11 together and made a decent watching experience. Instead the viewer is stuck constantly going to and from the menu to watch quick little movies. There's also a commentary over the movie but I haven't watched that yet.

So on the whole quite a bit of extra crap and not a bad DVD. I'm pretty happy about adding it to my collection although that RCE crap is really going to give me the shits. Still it's going to be a long time till we see this on Aussie shores so you won't get to watch this any way. But if you happen to be at my house then come in, sit down and enjoy. And make sure my dad isn't home.

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