Archive for February, 2007

Movie Review : Ghost Rider

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Just back from seeing Ghost Rider. Hey, I’m a total sucker for superhero flicks.

I was not all that familiar with the history of this skeleton guy. It seems remarkably similar to Spawn without the self torture.

Also, he does seem to be missing some major superhero qualities. For one, (more…)

Tweeked Organizer

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

This is so cool I want one, yet I’m torn by the fact that I know I’ll never use it.  Should I get one? Its only 6 bucks.
http://slingshot.tao.ca/organizer.php 

Movie Review : The Corpse Bride

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

This is a Tim Burton animation movie that retells a jewish fairytale in a similar style to “A Nightmare Before Christmas”.

Its about Victor who is slated to marry Victoria but in a fit of anguish runs into the woods and accidentally marries a zombie. Victor at first is horrified but then (more…)

KNOW your computer

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

A very nice utility to find out easily everything there is to know about your computer.

http://www.gtopala.com/ 

css debugging fun

Friday, February 16th, 2007

I know ff has firebug - possibly the greatest addon of all time and I know some people are looking at adding it to ie but in the mean time, I used this little snipet to help me visualize a big messy pile o stuff.

html .* {border:1px solid red;}

Basically, it puts squares around everything in ie.

SQL2k5 “Database is in transition” Error number 952

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Joy with a sql2005 database. I was trying to do a restore operation and got an error as described above. Sql Studio was nice enough to give me the 952 error code.

Luckily I was able to find a single blog that had a single link to an msdn forum which referenced something similar.

Ok, here is the solution. . . wait for it. . . wait for it. . . drum roll. . . wait for it. . .

Just close sql studio and reopen it and it most likely should be just fine.

Yup. There you have it. The unvarnished truth.