Ranaviru Fund
Let me start by saying that I don’t believe in war, I’m more in the camp of Gandhi and Mandela who showed that although difficult you can achieve what you wa...
Recent posts
Dell Studio: Slow mouse (touchpad) and missing keys issue
Just before I installed Windows 7, the new Dell Studio suddenly started slowing down. The touchpad movements would be jerky and some keys wouldn’t get presse...
Running Windows 7 Beta
With everyone reporting that Windows 7 beta was very stable I upgraded both my wife’s Dell Studio and my Dell 64-bit XPS to Windows 7. Both setups ran fine w...
Migrating from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress
Yet another migration post, feels like just yesterday I migrated from dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET.
Deleting millions of records from a table without blowing the transaction log
Over the weekend I realized that deleting 80% of the records on a table with 87 million rows is not quite as easy as issuing a delete statement with a where ...
Viewing the disk space usage (size) of all the tables in a SQL Server 2005/2008 database
I spent a couple of hours searching for a script that returns the size of all the tables in a database. Most of the ones that you find use sp_msforeachtable ...
Went shooting
So we went clay shooting yesterday with Adam Tyler (an Athen’s Olympic Bronze medalist and two time Commonwealth Gold medalist) showing us how it’s done. A...
Melbourne
It’s been nearly four months since I moved to Melbourne and having been in Sydney six months prior, Melbourne was indeed a welcome change. Although it’s very...
Could it be true? Is Live Search (Kumo) really getting better than the great Goog?
So I wanted to find a tool that would do fast folder comparisons. Searching on Google gave me a lot of useless stuff most of them related to fast folder acce...
A Personal Blog: Spaces vs Blogger
I’ve been wanting to start a personal blog for sometime and finally went ahead with it. This post though is not about my personal blog but rather about whic...