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Fix for: The device 'Generic volume' cannot be stopped

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Here's a program to fix that:
Unlocker: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
I've used this one and it's very easy. Secondary click on your drive in explorer and hit "Unlocker" from the in context menu. It'll tell you what processes are using it and even has a button to kill them.
I've heard this one mentioned as well, but [...]

Opera keyboard shortcut for "Reload from cache"

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Alt+F3 in Opera by default opens an internal source editor. If you edit the source you can hit the reload button at the top (or hit Ctrl+R) and it will reload that page straight from the source.
If you want to use an external editor (Preferences>Advanced>Programs> at the bottom) Ctrl+R doesn't work and the name [...]

The Dark Knight Review

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

I'm hard on movies. I love them or hate them usually and I'm known for being one of the most critical of them in my small circles.
It lived up to all my expectations. 8.9/10
I wasn't blown away, but then again I went into it with very extremely high expectations. The movie is [...]

Back from London

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

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So I've returned. I stayed the weekend in a crappy hotel and saw just about everything there is to see in the rest of the city. London bridge, Tower bridge, Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, walked along the Thames, British Museum. I got horribly lost on [...]

London update

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

More pictures in the gallery
So I've been here a few days now. Everything continues to be expensive as hell. CNN lists it as #2 most expensive city in the world back in 2007. New York is 15th.
I went on the London Eye and checked out Big Ben as well. Saw the [...]

Understanding International Roaming for Cell/Mobile Phones with AT&T

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

http://forums.wireless.att.com/cng/board/message?board.id=international&thread.id=6928
Took me awhile to find this, so I thought I'd share with everyone. The real trick for me was the + sign bit. I couldn't figure out why my voicemail shortcut (press and hold "1") was working, but when I dialed it by hand it didn't work. Press * twice to get [...]

Hello from London!

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

London photos!
I'm in London! Gonna be here for about a week. I'm here for a Vignette customer project. This is my first time over the Atlantic and first time anywhere in Europe.
So far the trip has been rather successful. I was up for about 36hrs straight yesterday to try and cope [...]

Censorship in America 1930-1970 - Comics and Movies

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

I've learned of some very interesting things that happened in this country recently as a result of researching about The Dark Knight and the very different character of the Joker (Heath Ledger) in this film than the previous Joker played by Jack Nicholson.
Comics Code Authority
The Comics Code Authority (CCA) is part of the Comics Magazine [...]

Month name helper passing month number for Rails

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I couldn't find a helper in the API to just display months if you're storing them as numbers (1-12) so I made one.
Add this helper code to your application_helper.rb or other appropriate *_helper.rb file.

def monthname(monthnumber)
if monthnumber
Date::MONTHNAMES[monthnumber]
end
end

Use it in your view like this:

< %=h monthname(item.month) %>

Business ventures.. Reputation management and question/answer-based social networking

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

So I've had two really good ideas lately that I found already had plenty of other people already doing them in practice. First one was a question/answer-based social networking site. Three sites found:

http://www.pollsb.com/
http://wis.dm/
http://airow.com/

airow was closest to my idea... actually almost exactly. Too bad they beat me to the punch three years ago. [...]