Hi all. So, for those who have been searching for Madden NFL 2008 bug workarounds, boy – you’ve hit the right blog. I’ll link underneath (later) to the other previous blog posts which relate to workarounds for the Franchise mode simulation freeze issue and the other issue to do […]
Monthly archives: January 2008
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Hi all. So, if you haven’t heard about the new ADO.Net Entity Framework.. Well, you soon will! Here is a link to Microsoft’s official overview of ADO.Net EF (may be a little out of synch since this was published in 2006). Here’s another blogger’s perspective, comparing LINQ to SQL […]
Hi all. So I know that I haven’t updated the blog since last Monday. No, it wasn’t a case of pouting over Green Bay’s inexplicable loss at home to the New York Giants (although it still stings). We just celebrated a national holiday in Australia – Australia Day – […]
So, like a good fan I was following the game. I was sending instant messages to another fan (whose responses have been blanked for privacy). This is an interesting account of the fourth quarter and overtime. Start of the fourth quarter: Rob Sanders says:lets just not call any stupid screensRob […]
Well, the weekend was odd. We inspected 4 properties which convinced us that a cheaper lower maintenance option is the way to go. We spent close to $500 on flights, plus car rental at $150 then, to top it off, the hire car’s battery died and we had RACQ come […]
According to this thread on this blog someplace, if you duplicate a virtual hard drive which has a Windows operating system on it, and then try to add both to an active directory domain you’ll get this funky error message (on the second machine registered, most likely): "The name or […]
So I had a little spare time just now, and decided to se what was happening on facebook. Nothing, as it turns out. Seems like all the applications are broken. They can’t be added or used. Ho hum. Anyhow, back to a pet peeve of mine: Microsoft will you fix […]
So for people who are new to the "Rants" category, posts in the aforementioned category are usually me blowing off some steam. These are usually fairly harmless, just a nice way to highlight some of the oddities of my day/week/month/life. Now this rant by a former Ruby on Rails developer […]
Well, it’s a great day to be a Green Bay Packers fan. Brett Favre and the warriors from the frozen tundra bounced back from an early 14 – 0 deficit to score 42 points (to Seattle’s 6) and win the game 42 – 20 in huge snowfall at Lambeau field […]
Few games come out based on historical events. Assassin’s Creed aims to represent as realistically as possible the world during the times of the Crusades in the Holy Land. This includes references to real historical figures of the time and the developers, UbiSoft, obviously aimed to have the player living […]
Currently Reading: "History of the Royal Navy" by Sir Harris Nicolas First Edition, Published London, 1847 in two volumes Whilst I’ve been in Melbourne, I’ve been putting booksandcollectibles.com.au to good use, so I came across this two volume set at a store in the Melbourne CBD. For $50, I picked up […]
This post is to address my ongoing love affair with Windows Server 2008, which is in RC1. Those of you who have been following my travesties with Windows Vista will undoubtedly know through my numerous posts to this blog, my pain and suffering under that particular operating system. Not […]
To everyone "out there" (on the world wide web), please have a safe and prosperous new year. To my special group of regular readers, hope additionally that you win the lotto and/or get three wishes (genie-style) in 2008. More info.. Since we’re moving to Queensland ("the land so beautiful, […]