Starcraft Origami

Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.

Visual Studio 2010

Just as the dust was settling on Visual Studio 2008 the new Visual Studio 2010 is already in a good phase of development(atleast that's what the screen shot says). Visual Studio 2010 has a completely new UI that Microsoft claims is more than just a face lift - it has more punch under the hood.

Click to Enlarge the Screenshot of Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 has been re-designed with features such as a reorganized layout with file menus and commands on a “shelf” at the top of the IDE. As you can clearly see fom the screenshot, Microsoft has now begun to use Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for the evolution of toolbars and menu bars.

Visual Studio 2010 will also feature a new UI with which developers will be able to enjoy additional real estate space because of multi-monitor support and can also simply drag source code windows to a secondary monitor. Rather cool I must say!!

White House Denies Obama Superman Cover-Up.

Original Whitehouse.gov picture - taken down within one hour of posting.

The White House has rigorously denied any involvement in the alteration of official photographs of the US president Barack Obama, which appeared to remove evidence that President Obama was wearing a Superman T-Shirt inder his white shirt.


The alterations are said to have been made to an official photo of President Obama departing Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland en route to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina on Friday 27th Febuary 2009. An official photo of President Obama departing Marine One was published by the White House official website at 10:15am ET. However, that picture was soon taken down and replaced with an apparently re-touched photo two hours later. Gone was any evidence of a gust of wind revealing a Superman logo creeping out from under Obama's shirt.

Altered photo appeared at Whitehouse.gov two hours after original was taken down.

The White House has continued to deny that any alterations were made, and has issued a statement saying that "The purported original is in fact the forgery. We have nothing more to say on the matter."

SQL Server :: Why does sp_help and Design View column length have variations in results?

Well, the question of Why does sp_help and Design View column length have variations in results? has been a Million Dollar question for my SQL geek friend in office. She was confronted with this issue where the column length appears differently when sp_help is used and the correct column length is visible in design view.

Being a SQL geek herself, she usually only uses command line commands (like sp_help) to get the information she needs - but this was a very hard nut for her to crack. Well, she did crack it last evening and here's the detailed explanation on why the variations appear. Hope this information is useful for others who are struck with a similar investigation.

When we use sp_help to check the properties of the table, the length of every column which is of Unicode data type (Nchar, Nvarchar, etc.) is doubled than the original column width which can be seen in design view.

For eg. If we have a column whose data type is Nvarchar(25). When we use sp_help for this table, the column length appears 50. But when we open the table in design view it shows 25.

This is because Unicode data type takes 2 bytes for storing data. And sp_help uses int to display the length of the column.

Hope that added some gyan to you too.

Chinatown Wars Site Launch

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is coming exclusively to Nintendo DS on March 17th 2009. The debut of the Grand Theft Auto franchise on Nintendo's handheld has been generating shock.

In less than one month's time, you will be able to get your hands on Chinatown Wars. Follow through on Huang Lee's search for honor, riches and revenge in the most dangerous and morally bankrupt city in the world, Liberty City. With epic storyline and missions, addictive mini-games and hidden collectibles, Wi-Fi head-to-head and co-op multiplayer mayhem, built-in replay feature, and much much more.

Make sure to visit the official site to see the brand new Official Chinatown Wars Trailer (the trailer can also be watched below), the first in a series of Game Feature Clips, set of new Wallpapers, an entertaining Screensaver that features the game's iconic original artwork and lots more.


Official Debut Trailer


Source: rockstargames.com/chinatownwars

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Italian PM denies talk of recession.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has continued to fend off talk of a recession. At a recent summit held in Rome, Mr Berlusconi stated: "There is absolutely no RECESSION. In fact, I am witnessing the GREEN SHOOTS of recovery every day. GROWTH continues to get stronger and any talk of a REDUCTION is completely false. The situation remains LUSH and very, very THICK."

How to easily install Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 Update on an existing Photoshop CS4 Installation

Adobe has recently released a new update called 11.0.1 for it's Photoshop CS4 - the most powerful photo editing software currently available. Photoshop CS4 is used by professionals around the world on both Mac and PC environments. But the Version 11.0.1 update has been giving many users a lot of issues in installing the update.

I have given a list of easy steps to install the Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 Update on your system without any issues. Follow the easy steps of installation below:

P.S: You can download the update 11.0.1 here.

• First of all, Disable all the anti-virus softwares in your system.
• Next, you will have to ensure that the folder on your hard drive which contains Photoshop is aptly named "Adobe Photoshop CS4".
• Now go ahead and double-click the "Adobe Photoshop Updater" application.
  
• Here's the challenge - If now, the updater throws a message saying that it cannot find the application to update. You have NO choice but to uninstall Photoshop CS4 and then reinstall Photoshop CS4 from scratch before trying to update again. (Note that the default folder is named as "Adobe Photoshop CS4"). On a Mac, to uninstall Photoshop, you'll have to navigate to the "Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers" folder and run "Add or Remove Adobe Photoshop CS4" to remove the original installation of Photoshop. Once the removal is complete, reinstall Photoshop, and then try your luck again with the updater.
• Your almost done now - Just follow all the instructions on the screen.
• Finally to confirm that the updater has run successfully, launch Photoshop CS4 and verify that the version number on the splash screen shows 11.0.1 and not 11.0!!!

Well, according to Adobe development team - Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 will only work the retail version of Photoshop CS4 and not any pre-release (including the beta) versions.

Beautiful and Creative Light Writing

Light writing is a form of stop motion animation wherein still images captured using the technique known as light painting are put in sequence thereby creating the optical illusion of movement for the viewer.

Light Paint Piano Player

Max Ophuels Preis Trailer

Light Writing Music

Impacto Criativo (Creative Impact)

Everything Will Illuminate

Lange Nacht der Forschung

British PM maintains passion for "Special Relationship."

"Oh, yeah baby...!"

Obama speech: Liveblog

2100 (ET): Missing the first part of speech because I am writing this blog.

2104 (ET): Obama was about to detail several important issues, but I remembered I had to divert my attention and write this post instead.

2111 (ET): Can't focus on the speech. Getting really worried about my next liveblog update.

2120 (ET): Still having problems focusing on the speech. I mean, who the hell reads liveblogs anyway?

2134 (ET): Sorry, I've been away for fourteen minutes. I hope people didn't think I had stopped liveblogging. How often should I liveblog anyway?

2137 (ET): Thought there might have been a boring bit so went to write, but now I am hearing clapping. Unfortunately I missed why that might be because I was writing my liveblog.

2142 (ET): Obama made a great point about education. But I guess you heard that.

2201 (ET): Imagine if Obama liveblogged his own speech. He'd have to keep stopping and sit down by a laptop. "Just finished sentence about health-care reform. Think it went quite well. Back soon."

2207 (ET): Sorry. Been busy updating my Twitter coverage of the speech. Might have missed some of the recent parts of what Obama said. But, in my valuable opinion, it is going really well.

2209 (ET): More clapping. Just went to the bathroom. I guess you didn't need to know that.

2213 (ET): It's over. Or is it? Has Obama's challenge really just begun? I'll be liveblogging my thoughts on that later.

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