Sunday, July 13th, 2008
As much as I like the new Battlefield: Bad Company, I am getting more annoyed by the lack of support from the publisher Electronic Arts (EA). The game was released locally on the 27th of June 2008 and it seems that despite having a private beta and a ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
If you are busy trying to develop using Microsoft Silverlight 2 beta 2 and Microsoft Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview you might have encountered errors while working in Blend such as The TypeConverter for "DataGridLength" does not support converting from a string. although Visual Studio doesn’t ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
If you've been following the latest news out of Microsoft you may have noticed the article with Marc Whitten where he mentions that certain under performing Xbox LIVE Arcade titles are going to be delisted from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Chris Paladino was quick to clarify some of the ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
After seeing a post that the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V bits are now feature complete in the form of Release Candidate 0 (RC0), I decided its time to get a machine up and running to play with it. I decided to go with a Server Core installation instead of the ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
On the weekend Andre happened to show me Sid Meier's Civilization IV and in particular the Beyond the Sword expansion pack. I immediately decided I wanted to get a copy for myself, having strangely enough, never played any of the series before even though others peoples I know like Ruari ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
How many times have you tried to design an efficient database table design in SQL Server only to stumped with the problem of storing pure date values. Yes the currently released versions of SQL Server (up to 2005) don't support a pure date only data type. Note that SQL Server ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
What is the deal with the South African government? Am I becoming an alarmist by writing this post and expressing my opinion? I honestly don't know but I just feel the need to write my thoughts down. Last week the country, who had power, watched Derek Watts and the Carte ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
I suppose its to be expected that an emerging country such as South Africa has to face so many challenges on its path forward but the recent power outages which Eskom, the national power utility, calls "load shedding" is actually just plain ridiculous. A while back Eskom implemented a load ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Its been a while since I made a post here and its all a result of not having an ADSL line at home. Why? Well I moved house at the beginning of December and got the phone line installed as soon as possible. Unfortunately our dear incumbent operator Telkom ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
What's up with the South African airline industry lately? All I see lately are reports of problems and I'm considering staying on the ground for the near future. Just take a look at the following headlines taken from The Times over the last couple of days: 07 Nov - ...
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